Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 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 89.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	101% 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	86.5% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	Цвета: 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 15 '17 at 06:31
Run Duration	140 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

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PC Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$242 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	89.5% Excellent	Memory 80.4 1-Core 146 2-Core 292 93% 173 Pts	4-Core 529 8-Core 804 83% 666 Pts	64-Core 805 50% 805 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.5% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing below potential (42^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	101% Outstanding	Lighting 131 Reflection 138 Parallax 119 106% 129 fps	MRender 109 Gravity 126 Splatting 103 92% 113 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk X400 512GB-$99 7,913 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 201GB free Firmware: X4120000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6517 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1054 (A5) Unknown 100 100 98861057039 (A6) Unknown 100 100 5 (A7) Unknown 100 100 32 (A8) Unknown 100 100 25 (A9) Unknown 100 100 552 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 17 (AE) Unknown 100 100 125 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 66 283468693534 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 2611376423520 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 8762 (EA) Unknown 100 100 10011 (F1) Unknown 253 253 9298 (F2) Unknown 253 253 12970 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	46.1% Average	Read 260 Write 178 Mixed 180 46% 206 MB/s	4K Read 22.5 4K Write 30.2 4K Mixed 9.44 62% 20.7 MB/s	DQ Read 180 DQ Write 131 DQ Mixed 8.72 46% 107 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 46.1% Great: 104%
Corsair Neutron XT 240GB-$170 1,466 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 144GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFC01.1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6510 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1059 (A2) Unknown 100 100 575 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 9044284 (AE) Unknown 100 100 138 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 138 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850919454 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 96 (F1) Unknown 100 100 21121 (F2) Unknown 100 100 6513	86.5% Excellent	Read 522 Write 505 Mixed 503 114% 510 MB/s	4K Read 26.4 4K Write 50.4 4K Mixed 13.6 84% 30.1 MB/s	DQ Read 237 DQ Write 230 DQ Mixed 15.9 72% 161 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 115%
WD WD2003FYPS-27W9B 2TB 9,937 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 1TB free Firmware: 04.05G11 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 2003 (03) Spinup time 233 229 10316 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1202 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 37 37 46464 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 653 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 89 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1112 (C2) HDA temperature 117 106 35 (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 12	55.8% Above average	Read 102 Write 92.2 Mixed 85.9 70% 93.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 2.26 4K Mixed 0.3 108% 1.12 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 55.8% Great: 61%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB 30,943 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	52.4% Above average	MC Read 18.3 MC Write 18.3 MC Mixed 19.9 54% 18.8 GB/s	SC Read 9.1 SC Write 16.2 SC Mixed 13.8 37% 13 GB/s	Latency 79.7 50% 79.7 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 52.4% Great: 103%

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Gaming 86%

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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 $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 $182	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) $30	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