Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


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 82.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	88.7% 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	93.8% 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA (all builds)
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151023
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 07 '17 at 17:50
Run Duration	218 Seconds
Run User	PHL-User
Background CPU	9%

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 above expectations (64^th percentile)	82.7% Excellent	Memory 91.3 1-Core 134 2-Core 257 90% 161 Pts	4-Core 399 8-Core 728 68% 564 Pts	64-Core 714 44% 714 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 855B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1800 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.7% Excellent	Lighting 114 Reflection 122 Parallax 109 93% 115 fps	MRender 98.5 Gravity 103 Splatting 95.4 81% 99.1 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 44GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9889 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 630 (B1) Unknown 95 95 96 (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 54 35 46 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 247 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23247296828	93.8% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 402 Mixed 414 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 40.4 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 20.9 146% 56.6 MB/s	DQ Read 35.3 DQ Write 281 DQ Mixed 23.6 58% 113 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 93.8% Great: 124%
HGST Ultrastar He8 Helium 8TB-$94 1,061 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 5TB free Firmware: A4GNW514 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 132 132 112 (03) Spinup time 146 146 38683541966 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1629 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 128 128 18 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 10498 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 330 (16) Unknown 100 100 100 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 3576 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 3576 (C2) HDA temperature 133 133 270584381485 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 130	99.2% Outstanding	Read 174 Write 172 Mixed 112 113% 152 MB/s	4K Read 1.13 4K Write 2.97 4K Mixed 0.37 143% 1.49 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 99.2% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 698GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 55443360 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 6133 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 22721295 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 19863 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2217 (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 54 34 40111474081838 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1568 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 52 52 96645 (C2) HDA temperature 46 66 94489280558 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 1 129334 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 72511932868543 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6932424592 (F2) Unknown 100 253 37464336005	98% Outstanding	Read 177 Write 165 Mixed 161 126% 168 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 1.73 4K Mixed 0.24 94% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 98% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 672GB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 99 2192 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10898 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 4297030530 (09) Power-on hours count 17 17 73175 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2853 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 79 79 21 (BC) Unknown 100 96 34360262695 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 55 38 4703746916397 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 643 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3918 (C2) HDA temperature 45 62 111669149741 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 14 6 2192 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 194 2119 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 25920127638940 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1400036991 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2720552689	56.3% Above average	Read 110 Write 86.2 Mixed 70 66% 88.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 0.7 4K Mixed 0.51 91% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 56.3% Great: 75%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 89GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 2 (03) Spinup time 129 123 6533 (04) Start/Stop count 87 87 13864 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 34 34 48581 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5098 (C0) Power-off retract count 195 195 3993 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 1075697 (C2) HDA temperature 106 78 41 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 7 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 197 75318 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	59.2% Above average	Read 109 Write 96.9 Mixed 90.5 74% 98.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.82 4K Mixed 0.22 92% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 59.2% Great: 59%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 8GB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 1920 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3209 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 605639473 (09) Power-on hours count 60 60 35250 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3467 (B7) Unknown 61 61 39 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 71 71 29 (BC) Unknown 100 96 68720591067 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 146 (BE) vendor-specific 52 35 43830949511216 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 2573 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4359 (C2) HDA temperature 48 65 98784247856 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 18 6 1920 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 192 390229 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 135974369656422 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2578682451 (F2) Unknown 100 253 195234647	47.5% Average	Read 77.7 Write 88.1 Mixed 71.2 59% 79 MB/s	4K Read 0.33 4K Write 0.97 4K Mixed 0.46 83% 0.59 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 47.5% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$57 31,641 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (30^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	73.8% Very good	MC Read 27.5 MC Write 28.3 MC Mixed 23.3 75% 26.4 GB/s	SC Read 14.2 SC Write 26 SC Mixed 21.7 59% 20.6 GB/s	Latency 65.3 61% 65.3 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 107%

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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 $241Bench 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	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 $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 $57Bench 85%, 31,641 samples	21x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $969

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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 $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16