Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA

Performance Results


Gaming 94% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 81% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (41st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 59 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%, 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	81% 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	27.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160325
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Mar 20 '18 at 19:26
Run Duration	266 Seconds
Run User	IRL-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing as expected (41^st 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 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	85% Excellent	Memory 90.7 1-Core 128 2-Core 255 88% 158 Pts	4-Core 427 8-Core 697 69% 562 Pts	64-Core 702 43% 702 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gainward(10B0 1B80) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2050 MHz, MLim: 2627 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	109% Outstanding	Lighting 144 Reflection 151 Parallax 128 117% 141 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 140 Splatting 109 98% 121 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
VT USB 3.0 240GB 34 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 223GB free Firmware: 0 Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	34.1% Below average	Read 208 Write 152 Mixed 174 40% 178 MB/s	4K Read 15.2 4K Write 29.2 4K Mixed 10.6 52% 18.3 MB/s	DQ Read 15.4 DQ Write 31.1 DQ Mixed 42.4 27% 29.7 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 34.1% Great: 42%
SanDisk Extreme Pro 480GB-$199 9,250 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 325GB free (System drive) Firmware: X21200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 449 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 121 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 52 (A8) Unknown 100 100 26 (A9) Unknown 100 100 838 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 28 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 69 41 176094969887 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 6 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1307 (F1) Unknown 253 253 942 (F2) Unknown 253 253 592 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	81% Excellent	Read 491 Write 464 Mixed 480 107% 478 MB/s	4K Read 18.4 4K Write 44 4K Mixed 13.5 68% 25.3 MB/s	DQ Read 295 DQ Write 284 DQ Mixed 11.7 85% 197 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 81% Great: 114%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 68GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1122 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 477 (B1) Unknown 98 98 22 (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 69 56 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 73 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5380095570	69.8% Good	Read 494 Write 401 Mixed 416 97% 437 MB/s	4K Read 25.3 4K Write 36 4K Mixed 16.3 78% 25.8 MB/s	DQ Read 33.8 DQ Write 71.4 DQ Mixed 117 71% 74 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 69.8% Great: 124%
SanDisk Extreme Pro 240GB-$79 10,862 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 37GB free Firmware: X21200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 2077 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1186 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 22 (A8) Unknown 100 100 99 (A9) Unknown 100 100 393 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 37 (AE) Unknown 100 100 182 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 75 56 240519282713 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 279 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 9930 (F1) Unknown 253 253 6581 (F2) Unknown 253 253 7015 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	67.8% Good	Read 493 Write 407 Mixed 423 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 18.6 4K Write 41.1 4K Mixed 17.1 72% 25.6 MB/s	DQ Read 22.1 DQ Write 42.6 DQ Mixed 11.1 14% 25.3 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 67.8% Great: 114%
WD Green 6TB (2014)-$223 4,204 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 208 189 8591 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1595 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2057 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1098 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 176 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9731 (C2) HDA temperature 125 98 27 (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 200 194 262 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	53.5% Above average	Read 108 Write 78.2 Mixed 94 70% 93.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.82 4K Mixed 0.16 70% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 53.5% Great: 98%
Mushkin Ventura Ultra 120GB 37GB free Firmware: 0 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples

Lexar JumpDrive P20 USB 3.0 32GB-$23 225 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 15GB free, PID a212 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	60.2% Good	Read 290 Write 66.4 Mixed 75.9 140% 144 MB/s	4K Read 9.06 4K Write 0.47 4K Mixed 0.31 60% 3.28 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 60.2% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 2x16GB 4,021 User benchmarks, average bench 98% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (18^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	74.8% Very good	MC Read 27.2 MC Write 28.2 MC Mixed 23.1 75% 26.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.5 SC Write 29.5 SC Mixed 24 68% 23.7 GB/s	Latency 66.2 60% 66.2 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 74.8% Great: 136%

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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