Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 61% Destroyer	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 85.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	68.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	63.6% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 9 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	13.1 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	Jan 13 '18 at 09:21
Run Duration	198 Seconds
Run User	GRC-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	85.3% Excellent	Memory 93.9 1-Core 114 2-Core 226 83% 144 Pts	4-Core 414 8-Core 620 64% 517 Pts	64-Core 621 38% 621 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Gigabyte(1458 367C) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	68.6% Good	Lighting 88.8 Reflection 78.1 Parallax 78.6 72% 81.8 fps	MRender 81 Gravity 77.7 Splatting 69 61% 75.9 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 68.6% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 335 Series 240GB-$219 4,220 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 91GB free Firmware: 335u 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 100 100 109693464751595 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1754 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 73 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 15320 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 15320 (F2) Unknown 100 100 45643 (F9) Unknown 100 100 277	80.1% Excellent	Read 510 Write 278 Mixed 283 78% 357 MB/s	4K Read 35.6 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 20.1 141% 57.1 MB/s	DQ Read 40.1 DQ Write 53.1 DQ Mixed 28.4 26% 40.5 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 92%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 53GB free Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4264753 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 -109985522499124 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2360 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 51 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 16 83 34365177872 (C2) HDA temperature 16 83 34365177872 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4264753 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4264753 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4264753 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 581 (EA) Unknown 0 0 850 (F1) Unknown 0 0 850 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1863	77.5% Very good	Read 523 Write 267 Mixed 302 80% 364 MB/s	4K Read 31.8 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 18.8 128% 52 MB/s	DQ Read 54.3 DQ Write 90.7 DQ Mixed 31.3 35% 58.7 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 77.5% Great: 85%
Intel 330 Series 180GB 5,848 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 32GB free (System drive) Firmware: 300i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 38276749452761 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2378 (B5) Unknown 0 0 1 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2378 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 305982 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 305982 (F2) Unknown 100 100 359060 (F9) Unknown 100 100 10034	63.6% Good	Read 462 Write 157 Mixed 199 59% 273 MB/s	4K Read 21.4 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 13.7 108% 48.2 MB/s	DQ Read 42.7 DQ Write 161 DQ Mixed 30.1 44% 77.9 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.6% Great: 83%
Intel 330 Series 120GB-$188 11,188 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 26GB free Firmware: 300i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 19430432953650 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1761 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1761 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 26633 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 26633 (F2) Unknown 100 100 41033 (F9) Unknown 100 100 640	71.7% Very good	Read 522 Write 147 Mixed 207 63% 292 MB/s	4K Read 35.4 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 19.1 135% 54 MB/s	DQ Read 60.5 DQ Write 70.1 DQ Mixed 20.9 28% 50.5 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 71.7% Great: 80%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$40 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 364GB free Firmware: 05.0 Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	66.6% Good	Read 116 Write 116 Mixed 116 87% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 2.17 4K Mixed 0.47 127% 1.16 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 19,207 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	62.2% Good	MC Read 22.3 MC Write 22.4 MC Mixed 18.7 60% 21.1 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 21 57% 20.1 GB/s	Latency 59.9 67% 59.9 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 62.2% 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	1,155x
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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $37
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