Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO (WI-FI AC)

Performance Results


Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 17% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 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 104%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	8.57% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	179% 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 (WI-FI AC) (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171101
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 02 '18 at 01:33
Run Duration	212 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-8600K-$139 264,837 User benchmarks, average bench 91% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	104% Outstanding	Memory 95.5 1-Core 151 2-Core 298 100% 181 Pts	4-Core 603 8-Core 868 92% 736 Pts	64-Core 901 56% 901 Pts
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 101%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel UHD Graphics 630 (Desktop Coffee Lake i5 i7) 147,588 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 872F) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 22.20.16.4785 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	8.57% Terrible	Lighting 8.97 Reflection 12.6 Parallax 9.03 7% 10.2 fps	MRender 13 Gravity 7.97 Splatting 17.8 11% 12.9 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 8.57% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 194GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	179% Outstanding	Read 1,532 Write 922 Mixed 983 253% 1,146 MB/s	4K Read 41.2 4K Write 95.1 4K Mixed 26.6 147% 54.3 MB/s	DQ Read 495 DQ Write 340 DQ Mixed 24.7 125% 287 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 179% Great: 236%
Sandisk Ultra II 240GB 13 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 159GB free Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: Unknown Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	93.4% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 487 Mixed 471 110% 490 MB/s	4K Read 36.4 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 18.7 138% 55.4 MB/s	DQ Read 38.6 DQ Write 119 DQ Mixed 38.1 41% 65.2 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 93.4% Great: 93%
Toshiba P300 3TB-$98 74,038 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 3TB free Firmware: MX6OACF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 71 (03) Spinup time 179 179 21500264701 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 5900 (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 99 99 10586 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 74 (C0) Power-off retract count 96 96 5901 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 5901 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 201864773665 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 8 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	109% Outstanding	Read 190 Write 189 Mixed 171 138% 183 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 2.24 4K Mixed 0.23 117% 1.22 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 108%
Seagate BUP Slim RD 2TB 4,801 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 1TB free Firmware: 0143 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	59.5% Above average	Read 102 Write 106 Mixed 93.3 75% 100 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.3 88% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 59.5% Great: 66%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 931GB free Firmware: 2BA30001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 93 92 2372 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2399 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1145 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 212 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 9 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 17 (C2) HDA temperature 64 61 167504576538 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 24 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 18 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 5 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 26019	59.6% Above average	Read 107 Write 101 Mixed 100 77% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.68 4K Mixed 0.3 87% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 59.6% Great: 59%
Seagate ST1000LM035-1RK172 1TB 452,134 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 831GB free Firmware: SDM1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 82 64 164714569 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 114 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 116803691 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 -120800250158684 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 93 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 56 454688795 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 34 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 328406 (C2) HDA temperature 27 44 68719476763 (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 91216515439092 (F1) Unknown 100 253 9253430237 (F2) Unknown 100 253 13128516768 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	53.9% Above average	Read 80.2 Write 106 Mixed 74.9 65% 87.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 4.75 4K Mixed 0.04 119% 1.81 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 53.9% Great: 71%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$39 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2747 MHz Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	90.6% Outstanding	MC Read 35.3 MC Write 35.1 MC Mixed 24.9 91% 31.8 GB/s	SC Read 20.4 SC Write 37.1 SC Mixed 28.4 82% 28.6 GB/s	Latency 55.6 72% 55.6 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 90.6% Great: 110%

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Desktop 96%

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Workstation 103%

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Motherboard: Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO (WI-FI AC) - $320

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $192Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	2,935x
Core i9-9900KIntel $405Bench 98%, 354,223 samples	267x
Core i7-8086KIntel $399Bench 91%, 38,086 samples	260x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	868x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	356x
RTX 3080-TiNvidia $660Bench 204%, 155,335 samples	262x

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $159Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	275x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	192x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	180x

RAM
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBG.SKILL $127Bench 91%, 87,239 samples	334x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	194x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GBG.SKILLBench 89%, 92,468 samples	70x

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Value: 78% - Very good

Total price: $1,283

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $168	Nvidia RTX 4070 $490	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16