Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 69% Battle cruiser	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 94.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	65.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	203% 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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.5 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161227
Uptime	5.1 Days
Run Date	May 29 '18 at 18:45
Run Duration	641 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.4% Outstanding	Memory 96.9 1-Core 134 2-Core 266 93% 166 Pts	4-Core 495 8-Core 743 77% 619 Pts	64-Core 744 46% 744 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-X-$781 8,241 User benchmarks, average bench 59% AMD(1002 0B36) CLim: 1050 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 18.4.1 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	65.7% Good	Lighting 83.1 Reflection 59.2 Parallax 119 68% 87.2 fps	MRender 59.5 Gravity 90.7 Splatting 75.3 62% 75.1 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 65.7% Great: 65%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY SSD2SC240G5LC709 240GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 219GB free Firmware: 560A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 97 97 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 -45389214382436 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4345 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 358 (B1) Unknown 0 0 296 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 36 49 47247851556 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 0 (C4) Reallocation count 97 97 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 89 89 21474836480 (E9) Unknown 0 0 28445 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7189 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7189 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7481	25.7% Poor	Read 366 Write 1.41 Mixed 2.83 26% 124 MB/s	4K Read 25.2 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 1.42 41% 9.34 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 25.7% Great: 28%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 163GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	203% Outstanding	Read 1,895 Write 825 Mixed 1,079 278% 1,266 MB/s	4K Read 36.6 4K Write 138 4K Mixed 45 186% 73.1 MB/s	DQ Read 604 DQ Write 303 DQ Mixed 190 211% 365 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 203% Great: 243%
Patriot Blast 480GB 1,476 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 147GB free Firmware: SAFM12.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2933 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1129 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 488 (AD) Unknown 100 100 393231 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 23 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3977	79% Very good	Read 504 Write 347 Mixed 353 89% 401 MB/s	4K Read 25.8 4K Write 73.5 4K Mixed 10.4 91% 36.5 MB/s	DQ Read 322 DQ Write 213 DQ Mixed 47.9 95% 194 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 79% Great: 99%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 110GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4405 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2049 (B1) Unknown 99 99 15 (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 63 54 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 41 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7343639537	112% Outstanding	Read 505 Write 411 Mixed 422 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 38 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 48.6 173% 62.4 MB/s	DQ Read 338 DQ Write 258 DQ Mixed 110 133% 235 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 124%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$64 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 654GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 197 0 (03) Spinup time 163 160 6808 (04) Start/Stop count 85 85 15764 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 18684 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 92 92 8394 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 319 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 15726 (C2) HDA temperature 116 98 34 (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	48.7% Average	Read 98.8 Write 70.7 Mixed 90.6 66% 86.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 2.09 4K Mixed 0.43 114% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 48.7% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3600 C18 4x4GB 41 User benchmarks, average bench 98% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3467 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	114% Outstanding	MC Read 41.9 MC Write 44.2 MC Mixed 36 116% 40.7 GB/s	SC Read 22.9 SC Write 48.6 SC Mixed 33.3 100% 34.9 GB/s	Latency 50.8 79% 50.8 ns
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 118%

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Workstation 72%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO - $240

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	4,565x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	843x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	599x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $245Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	994x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	893x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	471x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	442x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	315x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	181x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	347x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	254x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	137x

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Value: 88% - Excellent

Total price: $803

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	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 $163	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 $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16