ASUS Republic Of Gamers Maximus VI Hero Intel Z87 Motherboard Review

Intel Z87 SATA III 6Gbps Performance Testing

CrystalDiskMark is a small benchmark utility for drives and enables rapid measurement of sequential and random read/write speeds. Note that CDM only supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ) with a queue depth of 32 (as noted) for the last listed benchmark score. This can skew some results in favor of controllers that also do not support NCQ.

The SATA III 6Gbps performance testing was completed using a Corsair Force GT 240Gb SATA III 6Gbps SSD.

Benchmark Results: The ASUS ROG Maximus VI Hero was able to hit a sequential read of 511.4MB/s and a sequential write of 446.7MB/s using our Corsair Neutron GTX 240GB SSD.

HD Tune Pro 4.01 is an extended version of HD Tune which includes many new features such as write benchmark, secure erasing, AAM setting, folder usage view, disk monitor, command line parameters and file benchmark.

Intel Z87 HD Tune Pro 5.50 Write Benchmark Results

Intel Z87 HD Tune Pro 5.50 Read Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: In the latest iteration of HD Tune, the ASUS ROG Maximus VI Hero was able to hit an average read of 380.2MB/s and an average write of 326.5MB/s. This is quite a bit faster than the GIGABYTE Z87X-UD3H which had an average read of 309.8MB/s and average write of 291.0MB/s.