Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (95th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 5 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	88.2% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	79.7% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160107
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 04 '16 at 04:56
Run Duration	116 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing way above expectations (95^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 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.2% Outstanding	Memory 93.6 1-Core 126 2-Core 252 88% 157 Pts	4-Core 500 8-Core 504 67% 502 Pts	64-Core 506 31% 506 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 854B) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6175 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	88.2% Excellent	Lighting 114 Reflection 116 Parallax 104 93% 111 fps	MRender 95.6 Gravity 99.9 Splatting 95.4 79% 97 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsun 840 Series 250GB 115 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 106GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2900 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1236 (B1) Unknown 97 97 33 (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 67 60 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 260 (EB) Unknown 99 99 99 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7742925940	79.7% Very good	Read 511 Write 239 Mixed 168 67% 306 MB/s	4K Read 33.8 4K Write 96.8 4K Mixed 11.7 118% 47.4 MB/s	DQ Read 332 DQ Write 190 DQ Mixed 14.4 77% 179 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 79.7% Great: 81%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 719GB free Firmware: 05.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 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 178 172 4075 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4377 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 13629 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4333 (C0) Power-off retract count 196 196 3113 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1263 (C2) HDA temperature 108 97 39 (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	73.9% Very good	Read 130 Write 128 Mixed 126 96% 128 MB/s	4K Read 1.26 4K Write 1.63 4K Mixed 0.53 141% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G4D240FSB.16FADG 2x8GB 104 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89.4% Excellent	MC Read 31.6 MC Write 34 MC Mixed 29.6 91% 31.7 GB/s	SC Read 19.4 SC Write 34.8 SC Mixed 27.7 78% 27.3 GB/s	Latency 60.8 66% 60.8 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 89.4% Great: 89%

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Gaming 86%

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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	4,544x
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 $275	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