Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 127% UFO	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 109% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 95.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	132% 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	56% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 MAXIMUS IX HERO (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 18 '17 at 14:02
Run Duration	197 Seconds
Run User	AUT-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$242 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	95.9% Outstanding	Memory 96.6 1-Core 146 2-Core 281 97% 175 Pts	4-Core 512 8-Core 780 80% 646 Pts	64-Core 785 49% 785 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85E4) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2775 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	132% Outstanding	Lighting 186 Reflection 203 Parallax 181 152% 190 fps	MRender 129 Gravity 177 Splatting 126 117% 144 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 132% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SSD PLUS 480GB 5,109 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 54GB free Firmware: Z31000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2601 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 399 (A5) Unknown 100 100 38672466144 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 22 (A8) Unknown 100 100 13 (A9) Unknown 100 100 344 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 4 (AE) Unknown 100 100 38 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 60 257699479584 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 274881642560 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2225 (EA) Unknown 100 100 4598 (F1) Unknown 253 253 3564 (F2) Unknown 253 253 7119 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	103% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 345 Mixed 427 95% 427 MB/s	4K Read 38.5 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 30.1 158% 61.7 MB/s	DQ Read 379 DQ Write 274 DQ Mixed 59.1 117% 237 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 108%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$25 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 27GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z32080RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 223 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 67 (A5) Unknown 100 100 25778389110 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 4 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 35 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 55 40 257698037805 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 167504969767 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 320 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1105 (F1) Unknown 253 253 606 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1160 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	56% Above average	Read 456 Write 30.5 Mixed 10.1 35% 165 MB/s	4K Read 23.2 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 2.32 94% 43.6 MB/s	DQ Read 217 DQ Write 255 DQ Mixed 2.86 67% 158 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 56% Great: 86%
Samsung 840 120GB-$109 51,792 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 18GB free Firmware: DXT06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 22667 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 559 (B1) Unknown 97 97 26 (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 68 55 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 196 (EB) Unknown 1 1 4294967183 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1666190767	67.8% Good	Read 513 Write 118 Mixed 132 55% 254 MB/s	4K Read 28.1 4K Write 99.8 4K Mixed 9.6 108% 45.8 MB/s	DQ Read 331 DQ Write 118 DQ Mixed 26.6 72% 158 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 67.8% Great: 73%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$109 43,695 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 433GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 9 (03) Spinup time 119 114 7033 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1639 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 24309 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 719 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 99 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 127 127 221430 (C2) HDA temperature 115 98 32 (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	53.4% Above average	Read 91.5 Write 94.5 Mixed 91.8 70% 92.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.81 4K Mixed 0.22 89% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 53.4% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$40 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	91.1% Outstanding	MC Read 34.8 MC Write 35 MC Mixed 26 91% 31.9 GB/s	SC Read 21 SC Write 33.7 SC Mixed 29.5 80% 28.1 GB/s	Latency 51.9 77% 51.9 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 91.1% Great: 110%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 90%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO - $229

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,186x
Core i7-7700k VHIntelBench 84%, 9,708 samples	231x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	220x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	746x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	651x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	446x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	210x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	186x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	174x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	219x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	168x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	109x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $1,108

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