Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 105% UFO	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 87% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 84.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	127% 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	80.2% 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	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (26%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO (all builds)
Memory	20.8 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130701
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 30 '17 at 20:16
Run Duration	238 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	26%

PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	84.1% Excellent	Memory 94.1 1-Core 119 2-Core 239 85% 151 Pts	4-Core 400 8-Core 600 62% 500 Pts	64-Core 571 35% 571 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 84.1% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85E2) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.43 Performing below potential (72^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	127% Outstanding	Lighting 177 Reflection 200 Parallax 192 144% 190 fps	MRender 127 Gravity 170 Splatting 123 114% 140 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 127% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 530 Series 240GB-$149 16,872 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 62GB free (System drive) Firmware: DC12 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 4 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -89026082106720 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3143 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 2 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 503 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 34 43 55837392930 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 503 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 707874 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 56 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 90 90 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 707874 (F2) Unknown 100 100 912507 (F9) Unknown 100 100 82266	80.2% Excellent	Read 481 Write 251 Mixed 310 76% 347 MB/s	4K Read 33.4 4K Write 99.9 4K Mixed 19.8 129% 51 MB/s	DQ Read 184 DQ Write 190 DQ Mixed 11 57% 128 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 80.2% Great: 91%
HyperX Savage 960GB-$397 1,581 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 61GB free Firmware: SAFM00.r 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 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5571 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1359 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 2769 (AD) Unknown 100 100 393246 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 179 (C2) HDA temperature 66 57 184684838946 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 7097 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 5911 (F2) Unknown 100 100 12017 (F4) Unknown 100 100 6 (F5) Unknown 100 100 30 (F6) Unknown 100 100 1892672	105% Outstanding	Read 523 Write 502 Mixed 513 115% 513 MB/s	4K Read 34.8 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 15.8 135% 55.8 MB/s	DQ Read 318 DQ Write 347 DQ Mixed 15.6 99% 227 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 111%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 14GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 408 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 6527 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 64 49 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 2 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4100263707	122% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 414 Mixed 423 100% 452 MB/s	4K Read 48.2 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 52.2 200% 71.4 MB/s	DQ Read 359 DQ Write 288 DQ Mixed 131 151% 259 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 134%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 166GB free Firmware: CC49 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 117020440 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5556 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 25380475 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 10274 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2689 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 68 56 9128575008 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 308 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 73 73 54344 (C2) HDA temperature 32 44 -140737488355296 (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 -111046379435501 (F1) Unknown 100 253 20906653444 (F2) Unknown 100 253 21730849423	74.5% Very good	Read 141 Write 119 Mixed 77 83% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.22 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.22 63% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 74.5% Great: 112%
WD WD5000AACS-00ZUB0 500GB 19,716 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 7GB free Firmware: 05.04C05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 140 137 5991 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9681 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 24624 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6185 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 294 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9591 (C2) HDA temperature 115 89 32 (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	40.6% Average	Read 82.5 Write 58.7 Mixed 65.2 52% 68.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 2.04 4K Mixed 0.28 87% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 40.6% Great: 49%
WDC WD32 00BPVT-80JJ5T0 320GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 16% 44GB free, PID 6388 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	18.2% Very poor	Read 36.3 Write 36.9 Mixed 21.3 39% 31.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.15 60% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 18.2% Great: 18%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-14900CL9-4GBSR 0215 CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10 0420 F3-14900CL9-4GBSR 0215 CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10 24GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 8192, 4096, 8192 MB Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	55.9% Above average	MC Read 20.4 MC Write 20.5 MC Mixed 16.4 55% 19.1 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 18.4 SC Mixed 16.7 47% 16.5 GB/s	Latency 59.6 67% 59.6 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 55.9% Great: 59%

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Gaming 41%

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Desktop 81%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO - $190

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	1,162x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	410x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	298x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	187x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	185x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	176x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	95x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	93x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	91x

RAM
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	88x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	63x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	51x

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Value: 59% - Above average

Total price: $649

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16