Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA

Performance Results


Gaming 103% UFO	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 88% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 93.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
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	73% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

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Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA (all builds)
Memory	11.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160325
Uptime	3.5 Days
Run Date	Mar 29 '17 at 00:09
Run Duration	199 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	25%

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PC Performing as expected (55^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$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 above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.5% Outstanding	Memory 92.4 1-Core 133 2-Core 262 91% 163 Pts	4-Core 509 8-Core 748 78% 628 Pts	64-Core 749 46% 749 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 85AA) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	109% Outstanding	Lighting 145 Reflection 154 Parallax 130 119% 143 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 137 Splatting 111 98% 121 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 211GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4583 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 641 (B1) Unknown 99 99 6 (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 74 60 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 13 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7141274722	91.1% Outstanding	Read 498 Write 400 Mixed 419 98% 439 MB/s	4K Read 30.3 4K Write 39 4K Mixed 29.1 104% 32.8 MB/s	DQ Read 381 DQ Write 283 DQ Mixed 120 147% 261 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 91.1% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$122 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 96GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1683 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 290 (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 60 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 4 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8639368968	73% Very good	Read 370 Write 323 Mixed 324 76% 339 MB/s	4K Read 27.6 4K Write 33.4 4K Mixed 25.2 92% 28.7 MB/s	DQ Read 274 DQ Write 187 DQ Mixed 132 125% 198 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 73% Great: 133%
Samsung HD103SI 1TB-$89 48,059 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 928GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 92 1 20983 (03) Spinup time 81 81 6490 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 3943 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 25 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 11291 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8222 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1315 (0D) Soft read error rate 93 1 20885 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 41660 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 79 66 353107989 (C2) HDA temperature 78 62 369885206 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 574800 (C4) Reallocation count 99 99 25 (C5) Current pending sector count 70 70 1258 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	57.6% Above average	Read 96.5 Write 104 Mixed 117 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 0.35 95% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 57.6% Great: 59%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 44GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 112426664 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 5094 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 349790943 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 17303 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2186 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 156 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 59 504430621 (C2) HDA temperature 29 41 47244640285 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 22 16 112426664 (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 -21895743251354 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1000913082 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3302174322	55.1% Above average	Read 82.9 Write 109 Mixed 110 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.48 111% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 55.1% Great: 70%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 9GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 187314659 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9647 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4796534 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8675 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2166 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 61 521207838 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 47244640286 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 22 3 187314659 (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 137365939044550 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2420325249 (F2) Unknown 100 253 203212676	52.1% Above average	Read 90 Write 91.6 Mixed 87.5 68% 89.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.48 98% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 52.1% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$192 40,358 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	77.2% Very good	MC Read 28.1 MC Write 29.2 MC Mixed 23.8 77% 27 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 30.3 SC Mixed 24.5 70% 24.3 GB/s	Latency 63.4 63% 63.4 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 77.2% Great: 105%

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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	674x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	119x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	75x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	166x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	142x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	76x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	60x
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 $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	39x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	39x
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $38Bench 85%, 31,641 samples	21x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $755

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	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 $45	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