Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA

Performance Results


Gaming 100% UFO	Desktop 100% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 87% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 92.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	104% 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	205% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA (all builds)
Memory	25 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170630
Uptime	3.6 Days
Run Date	Mar 10 '18 at 01:32
Run Duration	167 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (63^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	92.4% Outstanding	Memory 97 1-Core 143 2-Core 275 96% 172 Pts	4-Core 473 8-Core 759 76% 616 Pts	64-Core 756 47% 756 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 92.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing below potential (71^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 134 Reflection 147 Parallax 126 110% 136 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 130 Splatting 107 95% 117 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 123GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile)	205% Outstanding	Read 2,099 Write 555 Mixed 1,098 273% 1,251 MB/s	4K Read 47.6 4K Write 184 4K Mixed 32.7 211% 88.1 MB/s	DQ Read 849 DQ Write 321 DQ Mixed 33 170% 401 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 205% Great: 283%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$50 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 43429024 (03) Spinup time 96 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1919 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 76385186 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15687 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 797 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 51540459541 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 52 454426651 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 123 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 8514 (C2) HDA temperature 27 48 34359738395 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 76763950495607 (F1) Unknown 100 253 11160358770 (F2) Unknown 100 253 15290226351	104% Outstanding	Read 202 Write 160 Mixed 139 125% 167 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 5.34 4K Mixed 0.62 196% 2.21 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 108%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 1TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 179 5875 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3533 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 19089 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3138 (C0) Power-off retract count 197 197 2523 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 115 115 257157 (C2) HDA temperature 125 103 25 (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	72.1% Very good	Read 127 Write 125 Mixed 133 97% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 0.43 4K Mixed 0.16 54% 0.43 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 83%
Seagate ST32000540AS 2TB 398 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 622GB free Firmware: CC83 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 93 163624712 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 87 87 13999 (05) Reallocated sector count 71 71 1192 (07) Seek error rate 41 38 33122892380103 (09) Power-on hours count 47 47 46991 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1179 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BC) Unknown 100 1 1443132146207 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 30 -29381349670881 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 6 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 49 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 12596 (C2) HDA temperature 31 70 51539607583 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 21 19 163624712 (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 62362925169827 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3930745918 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3518130714	48.6% Average	Read 77.2 Write 92.4 Mixed 70.5 60% 80 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 0.78 4K Mixed 0.08 43% 0.45 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 48.6% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3600 C17 4x8GB 768 User benchmarks, average bench 107% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3600 MHz Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	112% Outstanding	MC Read 40.4 MC Write 43.7 MC Mixed 35.6 114% 39.9 GB/s	SC Read 22.9 SC Write 47.5 SC Mixed 32.8 98% 34.4 GB/s	Latency 50.3 80% 50.3 ns
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 135%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 73%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA - $240

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	673x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	116x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	75x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	165x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	142x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	75x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	59x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsung $250Bench 199%, 40,327 samples	42x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	32x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	39x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	39x
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $78Bench 85%, 31,641 samples	21x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $969

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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