Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 105% UFO	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 91% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 93.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	109% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	104% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

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Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170723
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 24 '17 at 03:55
Run Duration	338 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	22%

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PC Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$241 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	93.5% Outstanding	Memory 97.2 1-Core 143 2-Core 283 97% 174 Pts	4-Core 484 8-Core 775 77% 629 Pts	64-Core 779 48% 779 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3702) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.28 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	109% Outstanding	Lighting 142 Reflection 154 Parallax 135 116% 143 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 139 Splatting 114 101% 124 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 404GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 120 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 57 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 68 61 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 9 (F1) Unknown 99 99 277152529	118% Outstanding	Read 505 Write 408 Mixed 420 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 39.4 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 52.6 188% 68.8 MB/s	DQ Read 363 DQ Write 285 DQ Mixed 127 148% 258 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 173GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 128 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 69 (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 66 56 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 7 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1824533335	104% Outstanding	Read 503 Write 406 Mixed 416 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 37.8 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 33.3 156% 59.2 MB/s	DQ Read 258 DQ Write 280 DQ Mixed 98.4 121% 212 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 124%
Intel 530 Series 240GB-$149 16,872 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 18GB free Firmware: DC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -20925080662656 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1123 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 10 (B7) Unknown 100 100 9 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 30 47 60132622366 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 10 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 63082 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 63 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 63082 (F2) Unknown 100 100 117229 (F9) Unknown 100 100 4348	84.8% Excellent	Read 499 Write 271 Mixed 334 81% 368 MB/s	4K Read 29.4 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 22 126% 50.8 MB/s	DQ Read 261 DQ Write 247 DQ Mixed 51.8 94% 186 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 84.8% Great: 91%
Seagate IronWolf 4TB (2016)-$95 26,217 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 3.5TB free Firmware: SC60 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 67 65 5141281 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 105125 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 78370268250112 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1 (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 71 71 487850013 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 2 (C2) HDA temperature 29 40 85899345949 (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 -32852204847104 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3089950 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2051331	98% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 172 Mixed 142 121% 161 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.28 95% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 98% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 74GB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 207871640 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3643 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 5912799 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5928 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1818 (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 67 54 39209664545 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 86 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 83 83 35397 (C2) HDA temperature 33 46 -140737488355295 (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 -48485885802124 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8266729327 (F2) Unknown 100 253 18579206218	63.2% Good	Read 131 Write 88.9 Mixed 119 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 0.96 4K Mixed 0.2 60% 0.55 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 114%
32 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 2GB free, PID 0000 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	6.71% Terrible	Read 20.6 Write 5.59 Mixed 8.82 12% 11.7 MB/s	4K Read 10.4 4K Write 0.02 4K Mixed 0.02 40% 3.47 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 6.71% Great: 7%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$45 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	101% Outstanding	MC Read 37.3 MC Write 39.8 MC Mixed 28.5 101% 35.2 GB/s	SC Read 22.6 SC Write 41.9 SC Mixed 31.7 92% 32.1 GB/s	Latency 49.5 81% 49.5 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 110%

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Gaming 105%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 90%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO - $229

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,190x
Core i7-7700k VHIntelBench 84%, 9,708 samples	231x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	220x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	746x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	652x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	447x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	210x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	186x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	174x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	219x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	168x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	109x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $1,092

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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