Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 94.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	87.3% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	70.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151001
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 04 '16 at 03:17
Run Duration	162 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.8% Outstanding	Memory 94.1 1-Core 145 2-Core 285 97% 175 Pts	4-Core 514 8-Core 807 81% 660 Pts	64-Core 804 50% 804 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 94.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3307) Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7290 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	87.3% Excellent	Lighting 109 Reflection 120 Parallax 101 89% 110 fps	MRender 99.5 Gravity 102 Splatting 105 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Mushkin MKNSSDCR240GB-DX 500GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 134% 213GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2411 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 821 (B1) Unknown 99 99 6 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 63 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 15 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6698264420	132% Outstanding	Read 497 Write 480 Mixed 505 110% 494 MB/s	4K Read 40.6 4K Write 131 4K Mixed 63.8 213% 78.6 MB/s	DQ Read 382 DQ Write 340 DQ Mixed 143 167% 288 MB/s
Poor: 132% ↑ This bench: 132% Great: 136%
Samsung 850 EVO 500GB 9 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 72GB free (System drive) Firmware: 507ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 110 35322519 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 -89412629162289 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2090 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 132 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 28 47 55837655068 (C2) HDA temperature 28 47 55837655068 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 35322519 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 35322519 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 35322519 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 18228 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11651 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11651 (F2) Unknown 0 0 16660	70.4% Very good	Read 477 Write 195 Mixed 228 66% 300 MB/s	4K Read 21 4K Write 91.6 4K Mixed 17.3 102% 43.3 MB/s	DQ Read 241 DQ Write 185 DQ Mixed 42.2 78% 156 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 70.4% Great: 89%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 942GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 153 153 11325 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 128 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 385 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 128 (10) Unknown 0 200 11726106630 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 2 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 125 (C2) HDA temperature 121 114 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	73.3% Very good	Read 116 Write 139 Mixed 115 93% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 2.52 4K Mixed 0.27 113% 1.22 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 73.3% Great: 112%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 546GB free Firmware: 05.00K05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 227 1183 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4923 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 8892 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3232 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 67 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4849 (C2) HDA temperature 117 99 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	38.2% Below average	Read 67.2 Write 65.9 Mixed 70 51% 67.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.3 82% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 38.2% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial Ballistix Sport LT DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GB-$118 9,846 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	86.1% Excellent	MC Read 31.5 MC Write 32.4 MC Mixed 26.7 86% 30.2 GB/s	SC Read 20.4 SC Write 34.8 SC Mixed 26.7 78% 27.3 GB/s	Latency 59.5 67% 59.5 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 87%

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Gaming 86%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 72%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO - $240

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	4,558x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	843x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	597x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	992x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	893x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	470x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	442x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	314x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	180x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	346x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	254x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	137x

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Value: 70% - Good

Total price: $953

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16