Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 124% UFO	Desktop 100% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 105% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 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 98.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	124% 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	95.7% 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	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 VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 16 '18 at 20:26
Run Duration	197 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing above expectations (80^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-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	98.7% Outstanding	Memory 96.8 1-Core 143 2-Core 286 97% 176 Pts	4-Core 549 8-Core 744 82% 647 Pts	64-Core 781 48% 781 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 98.7% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Zotac(19DA 2471) ≥ 4GB; ZT-P10810D-10P CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below potential (55^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	124% Outstanding	Lighting 172 Reflection 193 Parallax 176 140% 180 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 173 Splatting 119 111% 137 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 124% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 250GB-$251 41,998 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 114GB free Firmware: DXT0AB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7334 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2046 (B1) Unknown 96 96 38 (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 73 56 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 169 (F1) Unknown 99 99 17365920465	65.9% Good	Read 371 Write 247 Mixed 233 63% 284 MB/s	4K Read 28.8 4K Write 86.2 4K Mixed 14 107% 43 MB/s	DQ Read 29.4 DQ Write 208 DQ Mixed 30.4 50% 89.3 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 85%
Mushkin MKNSSDRE500GB 500GB 1,852 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 77GB free (System drive) Firmware: O1026A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^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 100 100 393 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 336 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 65 (A3) Unknown 100 100 26 (A4) Unknown 100 100 22754 (A5) Unknown 100 100 63 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 22 (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 16 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 26933 (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 198778 (F2) Unknown 100 100 198340 (F5) Unknown 100 100 364064	95.7% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 411 Mixed 451 102% 459 MB/s	4K Read 27.9 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 22.3 130% 54 MB/s	DQ Read 247 DQ Write 290 DQ Mixed 60.5 103% 199 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 95.7% Great: 103%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 89 36582984 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3259 (05) Reallocated sector count 97 97 3304 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 161165393 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7171 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1564 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 240 (BC) Unknown 100 97 34360262664 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 61 403898392 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 141 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 21133 (C2) HDA temperature 24 40 55834574872 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 48 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 48 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 119580479460523 (F1) Unknown 100 253 31196279519 (F2) Unknown 100 253 31764232057	101% Outstanding	Read 178 Write 175 Mixed 152 126% 168 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.32 83% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 114%
WD Blue 640GB (2008)-$33 94,563 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 569GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 156 154 5191 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6045 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 17902 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3121 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 308 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6037 (C2) HDA temperature 120 103 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 (F0) Head flying hours 81 81 14134 (F1) Unknown 200 200 45015633555 (F2) Unknown 200 200 63341329715	63.9% Good	Read 119 Write 103 Mixed 88.5 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.45 125% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 63.9% Great: 62%
Seagate Momentus XT SSHD 2.5" 500GB-$35 11,469 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 465GB free Firmware: SD28 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 108857680 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2690 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 185708896 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9431 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1530 (B8) Unknown 82 82 18 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 253 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 48 21929197595 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 104 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 76 76 49869 (C2) HDA temperature 27 52 -140737488355301 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 51 30 108857680 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	59.2% Above average	Read 108 Write 98.4 Mixed 97.2 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.28 4K Mixed 0.36 96% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 59.2% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$45 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	108% Outstanding	MC Read 39.3 MC Write 41.6 MC Mixed 33.5 109% 38.1 GB/s	SC Read 23.3 SC Write 45.7 SC Mixed 31.4 96% 33.5 GB/s	Latency 51.2 78% 51.2 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

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Desktop 87%

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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	4,555x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	843x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	597x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	991x
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	441x
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 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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