Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA

Performance Results


Gaming 64% Destroyer	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 93.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	65.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	68.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	20GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 20GB 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	16.8 GB free of 20 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151228
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Nov 12 '17 at 18:49
Run Duration	205 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6400-$79 171,457 User benchmarks, average bench 61% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 2.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.8% Outstanding	Memory 92 1-Core 140 2-Core 281 94% 171 Pts	4-Core 552 8-Core 550 74% 551 Pts	64-Core 547 34% 547 Pts
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 93.8% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% EVGA(3842 6267) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	65.2% Good	Lighting 82.3 Reflection 81.5 Parallax 70.8 67% 78.2 fps	MRender 72.4 Gravity 75.7 Splatting 76.6 62% 74.9 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 65.2% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M4 256GB-$218 17,938 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 181GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0309 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 16384 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 43524 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 942 (AA) Unknown 100 100 4 (AB) Unknown 100 100 32 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 96 96 132 (AE) Unknown 100 100 3 (B5) Unknown 100 100 15577989318054 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 119 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 82 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 40 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 4 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 6 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 96 96 4 (CE) Flying height 100 100 32	68.3% Good	Read 486 Write 262 Mixed 305 77% 351 MB/s	4K Read 24.3 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 8.18 102% 45.4 MB/s	DQ Read 81 DQ Write 116 DQ Mixed 8.26 32% 68.4 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 68.3% Great: 74%
Toshiba P300 2TB-$61 100,891 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 524GB free Firmware: MX4OACF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 72 (03) Spinup time 142 142 17199333614 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 860 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 105 105 41 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6851 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 242 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1013 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1013 (C2) HDA temperature 200 200 171799937054 (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 0	64.1% Good	Read 144 Write 79.1 Mixed 98.7 80% 107 MB/s	4K Read 1.04 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.15 90% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 64.1% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 217GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 74537596 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6412 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 45 44 1597739598798 (09) Power-on hours count 56 56 39192 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 839 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 262150 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 52 572325918 (C2) HDA temperature 30 48 68719476766 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 24 24 74537596 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -132985072364377 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3597731364 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4230685107	48.7% Average	Read 83 Write 86.7 Mixed 78.4 62% 82.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.33 4K Write 1.02 4K Mixed 0.31 67% 0.55 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 48.7% Great: 68%
Toshiba MK5075GSX 500GB-$127 6,562 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 214GB free Firmware: GT001U Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 2324 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 6903 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 32 32 27340 (0A) Spinup retry count 237 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1241 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 319 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 65834 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 231929413657 (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 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 8250 (DE) Loaded hours 95 95 2269 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 381 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	28.5% Poor	Read 49.2 Write 49.9 Mixed 48.6 37% 49.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.16 60% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 28.5% Great: 47%
Seagate Expansion Desk 1TB 564 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 313GB free, PID 3320 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	56.8% Above average	Read 143 Write 147 Mixed 80.9 153% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.31 4K Mixed 0.25 56% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 56.8% Great: 71%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMK16GX4M2B3000C15 Hynix HMA451U6AFR8N-TF Hynix HMA451U6AFR8N-TF Hynix HMA451U6AFR8N-TF 20GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 8192, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (25^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	68.5% Good	MC Read 24.4 MC Write 24.9 MC Mixed 22 68% 23.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 25.6 SC Mixed 21.7 61% 21.5 GB/s	Latency 64.1 62% 64.1 ns
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 68.5% Great: 101%

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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 $133	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