Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA

Performance Results


Gaming 101% UFO	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 88% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 87.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	114% 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	83.9% 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	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

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Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA (all builds)
Memory	11.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161216
Uptime	2.9 Days
Run Date	Mar 02 '17 at 18:59
Run Duration	202 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	56%

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PC Performing above expectations (61^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	87.1% Excellent	Memory 96.2 1-Core 125 2-Core 247 88% 156 Pts	4-Core 421 8-Core 700 68% 560 Pts	64-Core 750 46% 750 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 36FD) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2551 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.66 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	114% Outstanding	Lighting 154 Reflection 157 Parallax 147 125% 153 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 146 Splatting 111 100% 124 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 597GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 722 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 278 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 66 63 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 19 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4617504580	83.9% Excellent	Read 381 Write 332 Mixed 326 77% 347 MB/s	4K Read 37.3 4K Write 61.9 4K Mixed 32.1 130% 43.8 MB/s	DQ Read 229 DQ Write 167 DQ Mixed 119 110% 172 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 83.9% Great: 133%
HFS512G39MND-3510A 512GB 3,982 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 347GB free Firmware: 20100P00 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 166 166 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 752 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 771 (64) Unknown 100 100 3425899 (AB) Unknown 253 253 0 (AC) Unknown 253 253 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 33 (AF) Unknown 253 253 0 (B0) Unknown 253 253 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 23 (B2) Unknown 100 100 55 (B3) Unknown 100 100 372 (B4) Unknown 100 100 8460 (B5) Unknown 253 253 0 (B6) Unknown 253 253 0 (B7) Unknown 253 253 0 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BC) Unknown 253 253 0 (BF) G-sense error rate 253 253 0 (C2) HDA temperature 46 0 73018638382 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 253 253 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 253 253 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 11619 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3264 (F2) Unknown 100 100 3650 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 4270	58.8% Above average	Read 523 Write 215 Mixed 267 73% 335 MB/s	4K Read 23.4 4K Write 25.4 4K Mixed 14.8 68% 21.2 MB/s	DQ Read 177 DQ Write 26.3 DQ Mixed 44.4 47% 82.7 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 58.8% Great: 100%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 184 183 3791 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 336 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 721 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 271 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 31 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 332 (C2) HDA temperature 114 108 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	106% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 199 Mixed 180 138% 183 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 2.77 4K Mixed 0.49 126% 1.25 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 112%
Hitachi HTS725050A7E630 500GB-$125 56,661 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 466GB free Firmware: GH2OA420 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 210 210 81604378625 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 781 (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 98 98 948 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 764 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 54 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 78 78 224815 (C2) HDA temperature 193 193 210452873247 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 82 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 147 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	63.4% Good	Read 104 Write 117 Mixed 105 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.24 4K Mixed 0.17 68% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 72%
Lenovo Portable HDD 500GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 10% 0GB free, PID 451d Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	14.3% Very poor	Read 38.6 Write 34.3 Mixed 27.9 42% 33.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 0.38 4K Mixed 0.14 19% 0.3 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 14.3% Great: 14%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$161 35,811 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	92% Outstanding	MC Read 34.7 MC Write 36.1 MC Mixed 26.9 93% 32.6 GB/s	SC Read 20.4 SC Write 35.6 SC Mixed 25.6 78% 27.2 GB/s	Latency 53.4 75% 53.4 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 92% Great: 110%

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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 $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 $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 $56Bench 85%, 31,641 samples	21x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $974

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	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