Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (82nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 18 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 94.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	90.2% 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	85.4% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO (all builds)
Memory	13.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140815
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 09 '16 at 11:45
Run Duration	109 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.8% Outstanding	Memory 95.9 1-Core 138 2-Core 270 94% 168 Pts	4-Core 505 8-Core 733 77% 619 Pts	64-Core 733 45% 733 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 94.8% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 21.21.13.7563 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.2% Outstanding	Lighting 114 Reflection 122 Parallax 113 93% 117 fps	MRender 101 Gravity 101 Splatting 105 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Neutron XT 240GB-$170 1,466 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 97GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFC Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 81 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 116 (A2) Unknown 100 100 720 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 196627 (AE) Unknown 100 100 54 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 54 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850919454 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 647 (F2) Unknown 100 100 894	85.4% Excellent	Read 512 Write 434 Mixed 509 108% 485 MB/s	4K Read 32 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 13.6 124% 52.1 MB/s	DQ Read 31.3 DQ Write 107 DQ Mixed 13.5 26% 50.7 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 85.4% Great: 115%
Seagate ST1000DM 010-2EP102 1TB 10,780 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 931GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 72 66 17389804 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 10 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 13085 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 9 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 66 521928735 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 10 (C2) HDA temperature 31 25 107374182431 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 8 8 17389804 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -95678986452991 (F1) Unknown 100 253 10937347 (F2) Unknown 100 253 6452457	108% Outstanding	Read 193 Write 184 Mixed 154 132% 177 MB/s	4K Read 1.06 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.28 108% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 4x4GB 14,299 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	63.1% Good	MC Read 22.4 MC Write 21.9 MC Mixed 19.1 60% 21.1 GB/s	SC Read 18.3 SC Write 23.2 SC Mixed 21.4 60% 21 GB/s	Latency 54.4 74% 54.4 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 63.1% Great: 64%

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Gaming 41%

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Desktop 81%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO - $190

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	1,152x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	409x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	298x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	187x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	185x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	174x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	95x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	93x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	91x

RAM
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	88x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	63x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	50x

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Value: 60% - Good

Total price: $640

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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