Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 68% Battle cruiser	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 55% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (87th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 13 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 97.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	66.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	65.4% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit färger,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180315
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 23 '18 at 01:29
Run Duration	122 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	97.5% Outstanding	Memory 90.8 1-Core 154 2-Core 306 100% 184 Pts	4-Core 600 8-Core 606 80% 603 Pts	64-Core 599 37% 599 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 97.5% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85AC) CLim: 2113 MHz, MLim: 2172 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 397.64 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	66.5% Good	Lighting 83.9 Reflection 82.9 Parallax 69.8 68% 78.9 fps	MRender 75.9 Gravity 75.4 Splatting 77.9 63% 76.4 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 110GB free (System drive) Firmware: 541ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 18793687 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 0 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 -121882581907365 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2081 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 496 (B1) Unknown 0 0 96 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 28 43 25772621852 (C2) HDA temperature 28 43 25772621852 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 18793687 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 18793687 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 18793687 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 4294967296 (E9) Unknown 0 0 31178 (EA) Unknown 0 0 32629 (F1) Unknown 0 0 32629 (F2) Unknown 0 0 48986	65.4% Good	Read 496 Write 211 Mixed 302 74% 336 MB/s	4K Read 21.9 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 12.4 104% 45.7 MB/s	DQ Read 25.4 DQ Write 114 DQ Mixed 11.4 26% 50.3 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 65.4% Great: 85%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 312GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 142 135 3875 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10791 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 39 39 44687 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4067 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1705 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9085 (C2) HDA temperature 112 83 31 (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 27 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	68.3% Good	Read 115 Write 123 Mixed 88.6 81% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.41 96% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 68.3% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GB-$46 47,721 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	76.4% Very good	MC Read 27.4 MC Write 28.9 MC Mixed 25.1 78% 27.1 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 28.1 SC Mixed 22.4 64% 22.5 GB/s	Latency 66.1 60% 66.1 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 80%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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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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Value: 68% - Good

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