Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA

Performance Results


Gaming 64% Destroyer	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (85th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 15 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	63.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161216
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 29 '17 at 05:11
Run Duration	212 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	6%

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PC Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.6% Outstanding	Memory 97 1-Core 130 2-Core 260 91% 162 Pts	4-Core 488 8-Core 480 65% 484 Pts	64-Core 492 30% 492 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 90.6% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85AC) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2052 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.7% Good	Lighting 80.8 Reflection 78.7 Parallax 68.8 66% 76.1 fps	MRender 71.8 Gravity 72.9 Splatting 73.2 60% 72.6 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.7% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$210 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 331GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 949 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 284 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 62 61 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 6 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2899043593
Poor: 71% Great: 124%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 87GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2976 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1029 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 67 57 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 18 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3015707453	90.8% Outstanding	Read 493 Write 339 Mixed 355 88% 395 MB/s	4K Read 33.6 4K Write 80.1 4K Mixed 24.5 125% 46.1 MB/s	DQ Read 371 DQ Write 238 DQ Mixed 83.6 122% 231 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 90.8% Great: 118%
Toshiba MK3276GSX H 320GB 586 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 176GB free Firmware: GS001Y Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^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 1255 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 447 (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 99 99 708 (0A) Spinup retry count 108 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 217 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 3 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 6 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1322 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 193274314793 (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 39 (DE) Loaded hours 100 100 167 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 327 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	42.5% Average	Read 72.6 Write 75.4 Mixed 69.9 55% 72.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.32 81% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 42.5% Great: 46%
Toshiba MK2565GSX HR 160GB 53 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 149GB free Firmware: GJ001Q Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st 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 1281 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1062 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 13 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 1512 (0A) Spinup retry count 121 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 820 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 10 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 32803 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 188979347497 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 3 (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 73 (DE) Loaded hours 99 99 555 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 313 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	36% Below average	Read 60.5 Write 64.7 Mixed 60.7 47% 62 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.3 81% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 36% Great: 36%
Hitachi HTS545016B9SA00 160GB 497 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 147GB free Firmware: PBBOC64G Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 209 209 51539607553 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 3848 (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 79 79 9555 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3446 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 58 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 73 73 273153 (C2) HDA temperature 148 148 206158757925 (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 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	34.2% Below average	Read 58.5 Write 60.6 Mixed 54.9 44% 58 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.18 4K Mixed 0.32 75% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 34.2% Great: 35%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 4x4GB 505 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 3333 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	115% Outstanding	MC Read 41.1 MC Write 45.6 MC Mixed 37.4 118% 41.4 GB/s	SC Read 22.6 SC Write 45.6 SC Mixed 31.5 95% 33.2 GB/s	Latency 50.4 79% 50.4 ns
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 124%

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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 $46

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