Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 115% UFO	Desktop 108% UFO	Workstation 108% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 107%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	104% 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	259% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia 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	28.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180227
Uptime	3.4 Days
Run Date	Jun 03 '18 at 00:21
Run Duration	273 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (65^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-$208 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.85 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Memory 97.4 1-Core 159 2-Core 317 104% 191 Pts	4-Core 630 8-Core 989 100% 810 Pts	64-Core 1,321 82% 1,321 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% Asus(1043 861E) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2052 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.64 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	104% Outstanding	Lighting 135 Reflection 152 Parallax 141 110% 142 fps	MRender 103 Gravity 136 Splatting 114 96% 118 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Marvell Raid VD 4TB 20 User benchmarks, average bench 131% 3TB free Firmware: MV.R00-0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value	25.9% Poor	Read 99.4 Write 319 Mixed 132 42% 183 MB/s	4K Read 1.01 4K Write 10.8 4K Mixed 0.57 8% 4.13 MB/s	DQ Read 2.92 DQ Write 10.5 DQ Mixed 1.45 3% 4.96 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 25.9% Great: 800%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 431GB free Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	206% Outstanding	Read 1,633 Write 1,147 Mixed 1,138 289% 1,306 MB/s	4K Read 55 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 37.4 191% 68.6 MB/s	DQ Read 410 DQ Write 222 DQ Mixed 154 158% 262 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 206% Great: 254%
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 386GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B6QCXP7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	259% Outstanding	Read 2,138 Write 1,813 Mixed 1,672 417% 1,874 MB/s	4K Read 48.8 4K Write 134 4K Mixed 38.3 194% 73.8 MB/s	DQ Read 52.3 DQ Write 192 DQ Mixed 164 114% 136 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 259% Great: 353%
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 24GB free Firmware: DXM05B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 12041 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2751 (B1) Unknown 95 95 159 (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 70 56 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 3 (EB) Unknown 99 99 124 (F1) Unknown 99 99 22624883793	104% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 456 Mixed 505 109% 490 MB/s	4K Read 35.6 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 25.8 141% 54.7 MB/s	DQ Read 373 DQ Write 296 DQ Mixed 89.5 134% 253 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 116%
Intel 520 Series 60GB 1,135 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 15GB free Firmware: 400i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -66778150606241 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3427 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 3332 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 3585322 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3332 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 124440 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 75 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 124440 (F2) Unknown 100 100 380983 (F9) Unknown 100 100 4081	62.3% Good	Read 480 Write 82.3 Mixed 128 49% 230 MB/s	4K Read 38.4 4K Write 84.5 4K Mixed 16.4 124% 46.4 MB/s	DQ Read 38.8 DQ Write 73.4 DQ Mixed 15.6 23% 42.6 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 62.3% Great: 74%
WD WD5000KS-00MNB0 500GB 1,097 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 155GB free Firmware: 06.02E06 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 223 218 5833 (04) Start/Stop count 83 83 17873 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 56 56 32155 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5927 (BE) vendor-specific 70 36 30 (C2) HDA temperature 253 253 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	31.6% Below average	Read 57.6 Write 52.4 Mixed 44.3 38% 51.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.33 86% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 31.6% Great: 40%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 130GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 177 4125 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6088 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 17507 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3423 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 267 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5820 (C2) HDA temperature 118 88 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	61.1% Good	Read 120 Write 92.6 Mixed 77.6 72% 96.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 0.27 85% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 61.1% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GB 4,269 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	104% Outstanding	MC Read 39.8 MC Write 39.3 MC Mixed 30.2 104% 36.4 GB/s	SC Read 23.3 SC Write 44.1 SC Mixed 31 94% 32.8 GB/s	Latency 48.8 82% 48.8 ns
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 113%

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Workstation 103%

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Motherboard: Asus ROG MAXIMUS X HERO - $250

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $208Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	2,389x
Core i9-9900KIntel $405Bench 98%, 354,223 samples	299x
Core i7-8086KIntel $399Bench 91%, 38,086 samples	252x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	686x
GTX 1080Nvidia $265Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	336x
RTX 3080Nvidia $910Bench 187%, 424,051 samples	229x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 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	178x

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: $1,151

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $40	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