Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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 89.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	82.8% 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	88.6% 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	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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO (all builds)
Memory	10.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140815
Uptime	1.4 Days
Run Date	Jun 15 '18 at 14:33
Run Duration	296 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	15%

PC Performing as expected (54^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.3% Excellent	Memory 97.5 1-Core 136 2-Core 264 93% 166 Pts	4-Core 438 8-Core 639 67% 538 Pts	64-Core 669 41% 669 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 89.3% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 0998) CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing below potential (80^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.8% Excellent	Lighting 107 Reflection 106 Parallax 98.5 87% 104 fps	MRender 90.3 Gravity 95.8 Splatting 87.4 74% 91.1 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 82.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 300GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 25989 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 174 (B1) Unknown 99 99 16 (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 70 60 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 61 (F1) Unknown 99 99 18537527025	92.9% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 414 Mixed 421 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 43.4 4K Write 82.4 4K Mixed 26.2 143% 50.7 MB/s	DQ Read 46.7 DQ Write 181 DQ Mixed 101 81% 109 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 92.9% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 263GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q 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 97 97 12780 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 69 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 66 63 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 43 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1769228102	88.6% Excellent	Read 509 Write 405 Mixed 409 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 41.5 4K Write 80.1 4K Mixed 25.2 137% 48.9 MB/s	DQ Read 44.2 DQ Write 91.7 DQ Mixed 25.6 32% 53.8 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 88.6% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 89GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 26465 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 189 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (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 70 61 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 65 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4561980973	97.8% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 412 Mixed 422 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 44.1 4K Write 82.5 4K Mixed 26.5 144% 51 MB/s	DQ Read 247 DQ Write 189 DQ Mixed 101 108% 179 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 97.8% Great: 134%
Kingston HyperX 120GB 3,401 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 77GB free Firmware: 526ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 134843182 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 41 41 55903294376974 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 11 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 170 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 26 34 51541835802 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 134843182 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 134843182 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 134843182 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 87 87 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 103837 (EA) Unknown 0 0 83177 (F1) Unknown 0 0 83177 (F2) Unknown 0 0 28058	63.9% Good	Read 452 Write 138 Mixed 202 58% 264 MB/s	4K Read 27.2 4K Write 89 4K Mixed 14.7 107% 43.6 MB/s	DQ Read 158 DQ Write 139 DQ Mixed 39.3 59% 112 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 63.9% Great: 81%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 26GB free Firmware: 520ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 32111496 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 57 57 -69861937998714 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 257 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 181 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 286 (BD) vendor-specific 28 38 60132032540 (C2) HDA temperature 28 38 60132032540 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 32111496 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 32111496 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 32111496 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2644 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3134 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3134 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11740	83.2% Excellent	Read 506 Write 288 Mixed 298 80% 364 MB/s	4K Read 28.5 4K Write 89.3 4K Mixed 20.1 116% 46 MB/s	DQ Read 269 DQ Write 244 DQ Mixed 73 105% 195 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 83.2% Great: 85%
Seagate ST3750330AS 750GB-$137 3,651 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 71GB free Firmware: SD15 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 81 212660041 (03) Spinup time 93 85 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2563 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 144 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 331571152825 (09) Power-on hours count 15 15 74520 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 34 (0C) Power cycle count 99 37 1458 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 5023 (BC) Unknown 100 99 65537 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 13431 (BE) vendor-specific 71 57 555155485 (C2) HDA temperature 29 43 47244640285 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 34 15 212660041 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	40.8% Average	Read 84.9 Write 57.3 Mixed 62.5 51% 68.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.3 82% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 40.8% Great: 58%
Samsung Flash Drive FIT 128GB 3,370 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 119GB free, PID 1000 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	37.3% Below average	Read 124 Write 60.4 Mixed 69.3 97% 84.7 MB/s	4K Read 4.79 4K Write 1.63 4K Mixed 1.15 112% 2.52 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 37.3% Great: 117%
WDC WD10 EACS-00D6B1 1TB 13 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 19GB free, PID 0c25 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	20.7% Poor	Read 38.4 Write 38.1 Mixed 37 49% 37.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 2.18 4K Mixed 0.25 84% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 20.7% Great: 21%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 2133 C9 4x4GB 1,884 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	75.2% Very good	MC Read 27 MC Write 27.1 MC Mixed 23.5 74% 25.9 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 24.5 SC Mixed 24.1 64% 22.5 GB/s	Latency 48.2 83% 48.2 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 75.2% Great: 82%

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Gaming 41%

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Desktop 81%

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Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VI HERO - $190

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	1,161x
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 $245Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	185x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	176x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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 $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16