Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 127% UFO	Desktop 104% UFO	Workstation 120% UFO


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 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 99.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	124% 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	296% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 ROG MAXIMUS X HERO (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171101
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 17 '17 at 15:48
Run Duration	186 Seconds
Run User	ISR-User
Background CPU	1%

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 i7-8700K-$186 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	99.8% Outstanding	Memory 97.7 1-Core 142 2-Core 282 97% 174 Pts	4-Core 548 8-Core 929 90% 739 Pts	64-Core 1,253 78% 1,253 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 99.8% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3752) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing below potential (55^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	124% Outstanding	Lighting 172 Reflection 200 Parallax 187 140% 186 fps	MRender 124 Gravity 165 Splatting 125 112% 138 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 124% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 340GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	296% Outstanding	Read 2,889 Write 1,402 Mixed 1,446 420% 1,912 MB/s	4K Read 57.8 4K Write 148 4K Mixed 52.4 233% 86.2 MB/s	DQ Read 627 DQ Write 478 DQ Mixed 239 264% 448 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 296% Great: 254%
Corsair Force LS 240GB-$110 4,081 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 45GB free Firmware: SAFC01.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^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 15571 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 262 (A2) Unknown 100 100 490 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3342458 (AE) Unknown 100 100 180 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 180 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850919454 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 7087 (F2) Unknown 100 100 16205	86.7% Excellent	Read 521 Write 310 Mixed 393 90% 408 MB/s	4K Read 27.2 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 11.7 115% 49.9 MB/s	DQ Read 351 DQ Write 305 DQ Mixed 12.2 96% 223 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 91%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 533GB free Firmware: CC34 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 161329908 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 904 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 101722308 (09) Power-on hours count 38 38 54605 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 913 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 196611 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 69 53 538902559 (C2) HDA temperature 31 47 68719476767 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 24 14 161329908 (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 -136120398472171 (F1) Unknown 100 253 456402897 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1201434450	58.4% Above average	Read 106 Write 97.8 Mixed 83.2 72% 95.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.05 4K Mixed 0.37 82% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 58.4% Great: 68%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 233GB free Firmware: CC35 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 226612252 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5682 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 170455885 (09) Power-on hours count 35 35 57217 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1098 (B7) Unknown 1 1 4367 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 32 1722308364615 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 64 51 606339108 (C2) HDA temperature 36 49 68719476772 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 23 17 226612252 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 198 14587 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 83446919625475 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3071605132 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3229248014	61.5% Good	Read 112 Write 102 Mixed 104 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.69 4K Mixed 0.47 104% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 61.5% Great: 70%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 174GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 15405701 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5612 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 10018536 (09) Power-on hours count 42 42 51102 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 994 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1533326722572 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 52 555745312 (C2) HDA temperature 32 48 64424509472 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 22 20 15405701 (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 -7215545040427 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2168854183 (F2) Unknown 100 253 539451106	56% Above average	Read 93.2 Write 102 Mixed 99.1 74% 98 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.62 131% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 56% Great: 70%

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 (81^st percentile)	98.9% Outstanding	MC Read 39.2 MC Write 36.8 MC Mixed 27.3 98% 34.4 GB/s	SC Read 23.1 SC Write 38.6 SC Mixed 33 90% 31.6 GB/s	Latency 47.6 84% 47.6 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 98.9% Great: 110%

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Motherboard: Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO - $250

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	2,386x
Core i9-9900KIntel $410Bench 98%, 354,223 samples	298x
Core i7-8086KIntel $399Bench 91%, 38,086 samples	250x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	686x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	336x
RTX 3080Nvidia $625Bench 187%, 424,051 samples	229x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	199x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	183x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	177x

RAM
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBG.SKILL $113Bench 91%, 87,239 samples	145x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	115x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	112x

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Value: 84% - Excellent

Total price: $1,124

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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