Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Battleship	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 69%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	109% 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	246% 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.

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Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO (all builds)
Memory	10.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161216
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 09 '19 at 12:10
Run Duration	152 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	26%

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PC Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	69% Good	Memory 95.9 1-Core 77.9 2-Core 151 67% 108 Pts	4-Core 227 8-Core 632 48% 429 Pts	64-Core 622 38% 622 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3702) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 399.24 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	109% Outstanding	Lighting 143 Reflection 152 Parallax 140 116% 145 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 139 Splatting 112 100% 123 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 381,216 User benchmarks, average bench 273% 383GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B2QEXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1581 1038 607 609 606 606 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	246% Outstanding	Read 2,101 Write 1949 Mixed 1270 SusWrite 841 344% 1,540 MB/s	4K Read 54.6 4K Write 121 4K Mixed 70.3 237% 81.9 MB/s	DQ Read 861 DQ Write 802 DQ Mixed 897 655% 854 MB/s
Poor: 199% ↑ This bench: 246% Great: 340%
WD Blue 2TB (2015)-$84 253,816 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 654GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 90 93 93 93 93 94 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)	54.9% Above average	Read 98.5 Write 70 Mixed 70 SusWrite 92.5 61% 82.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 0.9 174% 1.33 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 54.9% Great: 84%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB-$80 27,325 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 262GB free Firmware: SD1A SusWrite @10s intervals: 89 92 92 93 93 92 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	51.3% Above average	Read 86.7 Write 14.2 Mixed 49.5 SusWrite 91.7 45% 60.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 1 176% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 51.3% Great: 59%
TOSHIBA STOR.E PARTNER 1TB 758 User benchmarks, average bench 23% 527GB free, PID b001 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 99 103 103 102 103 103 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	36.6% Below average	Read 62.5 Write 78.8 Mixed 33 SusWrite 102 96% 69.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.5 76% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 36.6% Great: 40%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 239,203 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2400 MHz clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	89.7% Excellent	MC Read 36.2 MC Write 37.4 MC Mixed 28.3 97% 34 GB/s	SC Read 13 SC Write 18.9 SC Mixed 16.4 46% 16.1 GB/s	Latency 54.2 74% 54.2 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 89.7% Great: 111%

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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	4,554x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	843x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	597x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	990x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	892x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	470x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	440x
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	345x
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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Total price: $972

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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