Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 81% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
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	177% 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.

Very high background CPU (38%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA (all builds)
Memory	27.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	4096 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160624
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 17 '17 at 03:32
Run Duration	142 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	38%

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PC Performing as expected (53^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	82% Excellent	Memory 84.3 1-Core 128 2-Core 235 84% 149 Pts	4-Core 429 8-Core 707 69% 568 Pts	64-Core 736 46% 736 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 82% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 8593) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	109% Outstanding	Lighting 144 Reflection 153 Parallax 131 117% 143 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 138 Splatting 113 100% 123 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 129GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	177% Outstanding	Read 1,324 Write 711 Mixed 967 221% 1,000 MB/s	4K Read 44.7 4K Write 142 4K Mixed 50.2 207% 79 MB/s	DQ Read 516 DQ Write 277 DQ Mixed 183 193% 325 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 177% Great: 243%
Seagate ST1000LM010-9YH146 1TB 2,987 User benchmarks, average bench 37% 674GB free Firmware: CC9F Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 100 269383200 (03) Spinup time 94 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 646 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 68 60 6708157 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 527 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 275 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 589833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 53 437583898 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 96 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1636 (C2) HDA temperature 26 47 42949672986 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 33 30 269383200 (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 -15882789059938 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2508879823 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1263779373	38.8% Below average	Read 68.7 Write 66.6 Mixed 66.2 51% 67.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 0.35 4K Mixed 0.23 55% 0.38 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 38.8% Great: 48%
Seagate Momentus 5400.6 2.5" 500GB-$16 83,084 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 127GB free Firmware: 0004SDM2 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 75 94802458 (03) Spinup time 98 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8792 (05) Reallocated sector count 93 93 153 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 9235980317 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 21394 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 92 37 8443 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 30913 (BC) Unknown 100 96 4295032844 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 43 21979856926 (BF) G-sense error rate 97 97 7733 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 25 25 150194 (C2) HDA temperature 30 57 38654705694 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 54 34 94802458 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 4 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	35.8% Below average	Read 63.7 Write 61.1 Mixed 51.5 44% 58.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.14 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.21 48% 0.45 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 35.8% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB 2,270 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (16^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.1% Very good	MC Read 26.9 MC Write 28.5 MC Mixed 22.4 74% 25.9 GB/s	SC Read 15.7 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 20 57% 20 GB/s	Latency 73 55% 73 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 72.1% 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 $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 $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 $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	39x
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $57Bench 85%, 31,641 samples	21x

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Total price: $960

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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 $45	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