Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 123% UFO	Desktop 103% UFO	Workstation 107% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 95.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	127% 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	261% 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

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS IX HERO (all builds)
Memory	10.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors, 2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171225
Uptime	1.3 Days
Run Date	Mar 15 '18 at 10:21
Run Duration	195 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing above expectations (73^rd 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 4.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	95.4% Outstanding	Memory 95.8 1-Core 150 2-Core 297 100% 181 Pts	4-Core 511 8-Core 817 82% 664 Pts	64-Core 821 51% 821 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 95.4% Great: 92%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake) 153,031 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 872F) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 23.20.16.4849 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.98% Terrible	Lighting 8.37 Reflection 11.7 Parallax 8.47 7% 9.52 fps	MRender 12.1 Gravity 7.43 Splatting 16.4 10% 12 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.98% Great: 7%
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3752) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing below potential (72^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	127% Outstanding	Lighting 179 Reflection 192 Parallax 180 146% 184 fps	MRender 122 Gravity 166 Splatting 124 112% 137 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 127% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$150 38,097 User benchmarks, average bench 241% 478GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	261% Outstanding	Read 2,730 Write 1,478 Mixed 1,507 419% 1,905 MB/s	4K Read 56 4K Write 128 4K Mixed 33.1 195% 72.3 MB/s	DQ Read 54.6 DQ Write 155 DQ Mixed 32.1 46% 80.6 MB/s
Poor: 157% ↑ This bench: 261% Great: 302%
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 178GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 16504 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1180 (B1) Unknown 96 96 39 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 65 48 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 195 (F1) Unknown 99 99 44577117670	88.4% Excellent	Read 507 Write 349 Mixed 358 90% 405 MB/s	4K Read 42.8 4K Write 69.8 4K Mixed 28.1 138% 46.9 MB/s	DQ Read 45.4 DQ Write 216 DQ Mixed 23 49% 94.7 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 88.4% Great: 126%
Toshiba MD04ACA400 4TB-$140 10,635 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 3TB free Firmware: FP2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 6738 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1098 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 988 (0A) Spinup retry count 121 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 197 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 26 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1549 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 180389543965 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 99 99 622 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 565 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	98.9% Outstanding	Read 172 Write 173 Mixed 153 124% 166 MB/s	4K Read 3.04 4K Write 2.04 4K Mixed 0.28 195% 1.78 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 98.9% Great: 104%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2TB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 168 161 6591 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4292 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 65 65 26066 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1411 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 334 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 178 178 66317 (C2) HDA temperature 123 108 27 (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	66.8% Good	Read 117 Write 115 Mixed 106 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.22 90% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 66.8% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 11,954 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2700 MHz Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	84.1% Excellent	MC Read 32.2 MC Write 32.3 MC Mixed 23.9 84% 29.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.6 SC Write 32.7 SC Mixed 26.8 73% 25.7 GB/s	Latency 54.5 73% 54.5 ns
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 84.1% Great: 107%

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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