Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 114% UFO	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 100% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 85.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	134% 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	90.9% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB 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.

Very high background CPU (40%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	60 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160325
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 27 '17 at 23:06
Run Duration	140 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	40%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd 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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	85.3% Excellent	Memory 87 1-Core 140 2-Core 261 90% 163 Pts	4-Core 450 8-Core 734 72% 592 Pts	64-Core 748 46% 748 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Titan Xp 8,552 User benchmarks, average bench 128% Nvidia(10DE 11DF) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2852 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 381.89 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	134% Outstanding	Lighting 187 Reflection 208 Parallax 183 152% 193 fps	MRender 130 Gravity 185 Splatting 135 122% 150 fps
Poor: 114% ↑ This bench: 134% Great: 140%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Mushkin Reactor 1TB-$50 9,565 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 809GB free Firmware: P0115G Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^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 3960 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 127 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 27 (A3) Unknown 100 100 30 (A4) Unknown 100 100 1410 (A5) Unknown 100 100 10 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 2 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 51688 (F2) Unknown 100 100 45729 (F5) Unknown 100 100 90240	65.4% Good	Read 377 Write 333 Mixed 354 79% 355 MB/s	4K Read 14.7 4K Write 82.1 4K Mixed 15.6 86% 37.5 MB/s	DQ Read 14.9 DQ Write 197 DQ Mixed 65.7 63% 92.5 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 65.4% Great: 105%
Mushkin Reactor 256GB-$114 909 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 117GB free (System drive) Firmware: N1007C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd 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 2189 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 126 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 44 (A3) Unknown 100 100 25 (A4) Unknown 100 100 48219 (A5) Unknown 100 100 106 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 47 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 7 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 7 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 22041 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 303652 (F2) Unknown 100 100 48697 (F5) Unknown 100 100 385752	90.9% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 297 Mixed 377 88% 397 MB/s	4K Read 28.8 4K Write 124 4K Mixed 22.2 138% 58.2 MB/s	DQ Read 267 DQ Write 275 DQ Mixed 58.5 103% 200 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 90.9% Great: 98%
WD Black 4TB (2016)-$174 9,888 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 3.5TB free Firmware: 81.H0A81 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 135 135 112 (03) Spinup time 141 141 38685311441 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1186 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 128 128 18 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3955 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 116 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1189 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1189 (C2) HDA temperature 187 187 210454249504 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	113% Outstanding	Read 185 Write 208 Mixed 181 144% 192 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 4.88 4K Mixed 0.66 205% 2.18 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 4x16GB-$143 14,506 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 4 of 4 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (24^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	73.5% Very good	MC Read 26 MC Write 28.4 MC Mixed 23.7 74% 26 GB/s	SC Read 16.8 SC Write 27.3 SC Mixed 22.3 63% 22.1 GB/s	Latency 70.5 57% 70.5 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 73.5% Great: 135%

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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	4,544x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	840x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	595x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	887x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	469x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	436x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	312x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	180x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	342x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	254x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	137x

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Total price: $972

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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