Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA

Performance Results


Gaming 37% Jet ski	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 32% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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 85.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	36% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	112% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA (all builds)
Memory	21.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170630
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Jan 16 '18 at 15:08
Run Duration	199 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing as expected (49^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 (84^th percentile)	85.6% Excellent	Memory 87.4 1-Core 131 2-Core 258 88% 159 Pts	4-Core 452 8-Core 685 70% 568 Pts	64-Core 692 43% 692 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% Asus(1043 854D) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	36% Below average	Lighting 47 Reflection 45.4 Parallax 40.2 38% 44.2 fps	MRender 38.7 Gravity 41 Splatting 36.8 32% 38.8 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 36% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 333GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 1 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11343 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 122 (B1) Unknown 97 97 54 (B3) Unknown 99 99 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 54 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 53 (F1) Unknown 99 99 40736082270	112% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 400 Mixed 410 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 46.1 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 45.2 182% 64.8 MB/s	DQ Read 282 DQ Write 258 DQ Mixed 27.7 87% 189 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 134%
Plextor M6 Pro 256GB-$110 927 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 325GB free Firmware: 1.05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3140 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1286 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 56 (AE) Unknown 100 100 866 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 58234 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1248 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 149 (B8) Unknown 83 83 17 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 30199 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 866 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 30045 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 14558 (F1) Unknown 100 100 352269 (F2) Unknown 100 100 223274	66.3% Good	Read 265 Write 363 Mixed 318 71% 315 MB/s	4K Read 29 4K Write 80.9 4K Mixed 5.5 94% 38.5 MB/s	DQ Read 169 DQ Write 180 DQ Mixed 29.8 62% 126 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 66.3% Great: 111%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 325GB free Firmware: U21010RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 77 (09) Power-on hours count 13 100 1037 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 552 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 10 (A8) Unknown 100 100 17 (A9) Unknown 100 100 103 (AA) Unknown 100 100 77 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 11 (AE) Unknown 100 100 257 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 23462 (C2) HDA temperature 63 100 214748364837 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 36558 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 74 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1883 (F1) Unknown 253 253 748 (F2) Unknown 253 253 404	66.1% Good	Read 246 Write 361 Mixed 317 70% 308 MB/s	4K Read 28.8 4K Write 81.8 4K Mixed 5.69 94% 38.8 MB/s	DQ Read 192 DQ Write 179 DQ Mixed 26.3 64% 133 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 86%
Intel Raid 1 Volume 1TB 8,129 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 333GB free Firmware: 1.0. Max speed: Unknown Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	25.8% Poor	Read 18.8 Write 70.7 Mixed 24.1 28% 37.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.32 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.27 72% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 25.8% Great: 108%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 214GB free Firmware: 2BA30002 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 15 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 92 89 2599 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4320 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 14525 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 52 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1087 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 16 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 99 (C2) HDA temperature 64 50 214749478935 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 95 95 2774 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 4155 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 52 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 6 6 955596	48.1% Average	Read 80.1 Write 87.4 Mixed 90.6 65% 86 MB/s	4K Read 0.29 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.22 70% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 48.1% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 4x8GB 1,486 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (25^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72% Very good	MC Read 25.1 MC Write 27.5 MC Mixed 23.1 72% 25.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 28.4 SC Mixed 23.2 65% 22.9 GB/s	Latency 70.1 57% 70.1 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 72% Great: 120%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA - $240

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	673x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	116x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	75x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	166x
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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Value: 70% - Good

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