Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 62% Destroyer	Desktop 100% UFO	Workstation 50% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 95.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	58.5% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	131% 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	8.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160624
Uptime	7.7 Days
Run Date	Nov 01 '17 at 19:48
Run Duration	162 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing above expectations (69^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.4% Outstanding	Memory 96.4 1-Core 144 2-Core 288 98% 176 Pts	4-Core 543 8-Core 553 73% 548 Pts	64-Core 548 34% 548 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 95.4% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 2983) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (45^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	58.5% Above average	Lighting 73.5 Reflection 79.1 Parallax 77.5 60% 76.7 fps	MRender 76 Gravity 68.9 Splatting 62.1 56% 69 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 58.5% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
ST31000524AS 250GB 15 User benchmarks, average bench 106% 63GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 5044 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 430 (B1) Unknown 96 96 83 (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 63 53 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 25 (F1) Unknown 99 99 48398619844	131% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 488 Mixed 494 111% 497 MB/s	4K Read 47.4 4K Write 126 4K Mixed 57.1 212% 76.8 MB/s	DQ Read 371 DQ Write 336 DQ Mixed 142 164% 283 MB/s
Poor: 81% ↑ This bench: 131% Great: 127%
Samsung 850 EVO 250GB 21 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 58GB free Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 17265 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1900 (B1) Unknown 85 85 542 (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 53 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 355 (F1) Unknown 99 99 39905005649	57.7% Above average	Read 487 Write 129 Mixed 221 61% 279 MB/s	4K Read 22.7 4K Write 44.7 4K Mixed 15.2 77% 27.5 MB/s	DQ Read 291 DQ Write 45.1 DQ Mixed 38.7 62% 125 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 57.7% Great: 108%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$90 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 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 200 200 117 (03) Spinup time 178 177 6066 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 276 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3592 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 257 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 21 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 373 (C2) HDA temperature 119 109 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	82.8% Excellent	Read 156 Write 133 Mixed 117 101% 135 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 2.27 4K Mixed 0.23 83% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 82.8% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 697GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 135097869 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2155 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 8709984810 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 16332 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1852 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 51 588709922 (C2) HDA temperature 34 49 68719476770 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 36 25 135097869 (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 78486232388716 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1555217751 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3017404457	57.1% Above average	Read 98.2 Write 101 Mixed 73.5 68% 90.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.14 4K Mixed 0.34 89% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 57.1% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3067 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	96.9% Outstanding	MC Read 30.6 MC Write 38.6 MC Mixed 33.9 98% 34.4 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 39.8 SC Mixed 29.6 82% 28.8 GB/s	Latency 52.7 76% 52.7 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 96.9% Great: 104%

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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