Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 87.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	87.5% 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	82.1% 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	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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA (all builds)
Memory	24.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161216
Uptime	3.2 Days
Run Date	Jan 17 '18 at 21:35
Run Duration	167 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (65^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 (89^th percentile)	87.2% Excellent	Memory 91.6 1-Core 129 2-Core 252 88% 158 Pts	4-Core 446 8-Core 744 72% 594 Pts	64-Core 743 46% 743 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.2% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3236) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	87.5% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 117 Parallax 106 92% 112 fps	MRender 96.4 Gravity 102 Splatting 92.3 79% 96.9 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Trion 150 240GB-$196 15,660 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 223GB free Firmware: SAFZ12.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 12033 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 241 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 172 172 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 76 (C2) HDA temperature 67 56 188979937313 (F1) Unknown 100 100 33583	82.6% Excellent	Read 515 Write 352 Mixed 358 90% 408 MB/s	4K Read 32 4K Write 74 4K Mixed 9.76 100% 38.6 MB/s	DQ Read 333 DQ Write 229 DQ Mixed 46.5 98% 203 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 82.6% Great: 95%
OCZ Trion 150 120GB-$50 3,507 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 93GB free Firmware: SAFZ12.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 12006 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 241 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 160 160 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 76 (C2) HDA temperature 67 58 180390002721 (F1) Unknown 100 100 31073	80.7% Excellent	Read 514 Write 333 Mixed 346 88% 398 MB/s	4K Read 31.7 4K Write 70.5 4K Mixed 9.64 98% 37.3 MB/s	DQ Read 332 DQ Write 224 DQ Mixed 42.3 95% 200 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 89%
OCZ Trion 150 240GB-$196 15,660 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 80GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFZ12.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 12055 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 240 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 150 150 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 78 (C2) HDA temperature 66 57 184684970018 (F1) Unknown 100 100 361825	82.1% Excellent	Read 514 Write 353 Mixed 244 82% 370 MB/s	4K Read 31.8 4K Write 73 4K Mixed 9.96 100% 38.2 MB/s	DQ Read 322 DQ Write 222 DQ Mixed 46.5 96% 197 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 82.1% Great: 95%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 363GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 174 2241 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 256 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 12060 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 237 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 73 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 271 (C2) HDA temperature 109 101 34 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	92.6% Outstanding	Read 169 Write 154 Mixed 119 110% 147 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 2.22 4K Mixed 0.27 106% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 92.6% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3400 C16 4x8GB 1,993 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (29^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	74.9% Very good	MC Read 26.8 MC Write 28.4 MC Mixed 23.7 75% 26.3 GB/s	SC Read 15.3 SC Write 30.4 SC Mixed 23.9 66% 23.2 GB/s	Latency 64.8 62% 64.8 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 121%

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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 $250Bench 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 $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $35	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