Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 68.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	129% 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	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.

Very high background CPU (55%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA (all builds)
Memory	26.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160325
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 09 '20 at 00:19
Run Duration	159 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	55%

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PC Performing above expectations (66^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 3.1 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	68.8% Good	Memory 86.2 1-Core 100 2-Core 180 72% 122 Pts	4-Core 278 8-Core 459 45% 369 Pts	64-Core 516 32% 516 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 68.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2080-$407 316,424 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 865F) CLim: 2190 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 452.06 Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	129% Outstanding	Lighting 178 Reflection 169 Parallax 164 145% 171 fps	MRender 186 Gravity 152 Splatting 110 118% 150 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 129% Great: 134%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 113GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 448 470 476 445 268 162 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	129% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 458 Mixed 416 SusWrite 378 99% 440 MB/s	4K Read 48.4 4K Write 128 4K Mixed 65.7 226% 80.8 MB/s	DQ Read 381 DQ Write 338 DQ Mixed 360 270% 360 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 129% Great: 133%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 37GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 292 203 181 156 143 128 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	112% Outstanding	Read 471 Write 426 Mixed 332 SusWrite 184 79% 353 MB/s	4K Read 47.6 4K Write 122 4K Mixed 59.5 213% 76.2 MB/s	DQ Read 383 DQ Write 339 DQ Mixed 349 265% 357 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 124%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 866GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 SusWrite @10s intervals: 135 137 136 137 137 137 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	76.6% Very good	Read 130 Write 126 Mixed 113 SusWrite 136 94% 126 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 2.7 4K Mixed 0.9 204% 1.63 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 76%
WD Green 1.5TB (2010)-$170 41,439 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1TB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 SusWrite @10s intervals: 97 106 107 107 107 106 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	63% Good	Read 115 Write 109 Mixed 79.5 SusWrite 105 75% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.8 134% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 63% Great: 63%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMW32GX4M2D3600C18 2x16GB 45,582 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	72.4% Very good	MC Read 27 MC Write 27.8 MC Mixed 22.8 74% 25.9 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 26.3 SC Mixed 22 60% 20.9 GB/s	Latency 71.1 56% 71.1 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 72.4% Great: 125%

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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 $242Bench 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 $160Bench 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: 65% - Good

Total price: $1,020

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