Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 20% Surfboard	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 18% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (44th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 56 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	17.6% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	73.6% 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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	9.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20150915
Uptime	1.4 Days
Run Date	Jan 08 '18 at 20:14
Run Duration	205 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (44^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	74.3% Very good	Memory 79.7 1-Core 105 2-Core 190 72% 125 Pts	4-Core 371 8-Core 572 58% 472 Pts	64-Core 602 37% 602 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 74.3% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.59 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	17.6% Very poor	Lighting 19.9 Reflection 23 Parallax 18.7 16% 20.5 fps	MRender 28.4 Gravity 19.9 Splatting 26 20% 24.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 17.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 525GB-$150 105,037 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 484GB free Firmware: M0CR031 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^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 58 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 336 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 61 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 76 65 150324903960 (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 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 58799891 (F7) Unknown 100 100 1857138 (F8) Unknown 100 100 13929538 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1921 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	81% Excellent	Read 474 Write 326 Mixed 333 84% 378 MB/s	4K Read 24.7 4K Write 63.5 4K Mixed 24.2 102% 37.5 MB/s	DQ Read 295 DQ Write 210 DQ Mixed 44.5 90% 183 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 81% Great: 99%
Corsair Force LX 256GB-$129 2,404 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 170GB free Firmware: N0530C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^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 100 100 176 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 871 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 54 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 47 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 8035 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 41 (A3) Unknown 100 100 29 (A4) Unknown 100 100 3725 (A5) Unknown 100 100 18 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 3 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 16284 (F2) Unknown 100 100 41401	88.7% Excellent	Read 492 Write 284 Mixed 360 84% 379 MB/s	4K Read 26.5 4K Write 95.4 4K Mixed 32.4 132% 51.4 MB/s	DQ Read 249 DQ Write 269 DQ Mixed 46.6 94% 188 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 99%
Corsair Force GT 120GB-$155 13,464 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 29GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.06 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 107 107 15347883 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 140342351391168 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1622 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 304 (B1) Unknown 0 0 10 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 38 51 60132884518 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 15347883 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 15347883 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 15347883 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 81 81 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 80993 (EA) Unknown 0 0 50566 (F1) Unknown 0 0 50566 (F2) Unknown 0 0 13732	73.6% Very good	Read 503 Write 159 Mixed 197 62% 286 MB/s	4K Read 31.7 4K Write 86.3 4K Mixed 20 119% 46 MB/s	DQ Read 205 DQ Write 194 DQ Mixed 9.27 59% 136 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 73.6% Great: 83%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2016)-$114 34,353 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2.5TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 72 64 16012384 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 336 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 151775040 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 133401684219423 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 336 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 64 403767320 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 98 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 31001 (C2) HDA temperature 24 40 68719476760 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 51432233375136 (F1) Unknown 100 253 60507474435 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1109756746	86.7% Excellent	Read 164 Write 138 Mixed 139 111% 147 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.81 4K Mixed 0.22 77% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 105%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$32 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 194GB free Firmware: CC4H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 239798312 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5660 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 69961676 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 26666 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1546 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 72 51 4782751772 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 209 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 342030 (C2) HDA temperature 28 49 -140737488355300 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -102585293850865 (F1) Unknown 100 253 -83431554538100 (F2) Unknown 100 253 134329378431944	73.7% Very good	Read 108 Write 149 Mixed 89.1 86% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.12 4K Mixed 0.36 83% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 73.7% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 3000 C15 4x4GB 4,583 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (10^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	69.9% Good	MC Read 25.7 MC Write 27.5 MC Mixed 22.7 72% 25.3 GB/s	SC Read 13.9 SC Write 23.1 SC Mixed 21.1 55% 19.4 GB/s	Latency 81 49% 81 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 117%

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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	4,557x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	843x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	597x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	992x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	892x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	470x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	442x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	313x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	180x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	346x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	254x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	137x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $958

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	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