Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 30% Raft	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 24% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	29.7% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO (all builds)
Memory	4.4 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140605
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Mar 19 '17 at 01:38
Run Duration	178 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4670K-$62 128,482 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	83.6% Excellent	Memory 91.4 1-Core 109 2-Core 221 80% 140 Pts	4-Core 439 8-Core 442 59% 440 Pts	64-Core 443 27% 443 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 83.6% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 7950-$290 33,820 User benchmarks, average bench 29% Asus(1043 0428) 3GB CLim: 900 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 16.12.1 Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	29.7% Poor	Lighting 37.6 Reflection 28.5 Parallax 48.6 31% 38.2 fps	MRender 27.9 Gravity 36.7 Splatting 36.3 28% 33.6 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 29.7% Great: 32%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 480GB-$40 16,752 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 413GB free Firmware: Z32070RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 3218 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 459 (A5) Unknown 100 100 4295426053 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 9 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 65 57 184683593763 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 4294967297 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 12 (EA) Unknown 100 100 95 (F1) Unknown 253 253 70 (F2) Unknown 253 253 81 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	74.9% Very good	Read 488 Write 376 Mixed 225 80% 363 MB/s	4K Read 21.6 4K Write 92.6 4K Mixed 3.21 86% 39.2 MB/s	DQ Read 152 DQ Write 257 DQ Mixed 3.73 59% 138 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 76%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$25 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 173GB free Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 255 100 255 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 974 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 10 (A9) Unknown 100 100 34 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 6 (AE) Unknown 100 100 10 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 100 223338299424 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1526 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1305 (F2) Unknown 253 253 9846	77.4% Very good	Read 488 Write 359 Mixed 287 84% 378 MB/s	4K Read 26.4 4K Write 99.7 4K Mixed 1.73 95% 42.6 MB/s	DQ Read 179 DQ Write 289 DQ Mixed 21.9 76% 163 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 77.4% Great: 86%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 27GB free Firmware: EXT0BB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 16760 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2000 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (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 77 62 23 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 31 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1970592626	73.1% Very good	Read 459 Write 268 Mixed 309 76% 346 MB/s	4K Read 36 4K Write 70.5 4K Mixed 8.35 102% 38.3 MB/s	DQ Read 210 DQ Write 233 DQ Mixed 25.1 73% 156 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 73.1% Great: 118%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$40 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 209GB free (System drive) Firmware: MX4OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 141 141 66 (03) Spinup time 127 127 25789333802 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2832 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 16921 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1990 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 2852 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 2852 (C2) HDA temperature 230 230 167504379930 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	94.8% Outstanding	Read 161 Write 170 Mixed 6.13 80% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.29 4K Mixed 0.2 75% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 94.8% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ares DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 2,517 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	62.6% Good	MC Read 22.7 MC Write 23.3 MC Mixed 19.5 62% 21.8 GB/s	SC Read 15.6 SC Write 20 SC Mixed 19.6 53% 18.4 GB/s	Latency 65.2 61% 65.2 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 62.6% Great: 62%

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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 $129Bench 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: $639

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