Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way below expectations (18th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 82 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	88.5% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	36% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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.

High background CPU (26%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

10 months ago, 10 months ago, 10 months ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA (all builds)
Memory	10.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	3840 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180314
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 13 '23 at 23:08
Run Duration	145 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	26%

PC Performing way below expectations (18^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-$170 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile)	75.4% Very good	Memory 82.5 1-Core 122 2-Core 207 79% 137 Pts	4-Core 387 8-Core 440 54% 413 Pts	64-Core 498 31% 498 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 75.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 3060-$266 447,556 User benchmarks, average bench 100% MSI(1462 3976) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3750 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 536.40 Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	88.5% Excellent	Lighting 115 Reflection 101 Parallax 120 94% 112 fps	MRender 121 Gravity 87.4 Splatting 85.9 79% 98.1 fps
Poor: 90% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 106%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WDC WDS100T2G0A-00JH30 1TB 17,953 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 634GB free (System drive) Firmware: UH510000 SusWrite @10s intervals: 75 43 52 69 32 31 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile)	36% Below average	Read 389 Write 327 Mixed 247 SusWrite 50.4 56% 253 MB/s	4K Read 10.8 4K Write 23.1 4K Mixed 11 43% 15 MB/s	DQ Read 114 DQ Write 82.2 DQ Mixed 30.3 41% 75.6 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 36% Great: 106%
Samsung 980 PRO with Heatsink 1TB 10,731 User benchmarks, average bench 376% 931GB free Firmware: 5B2QGXA7 SusWrite @10s intervals: 1299 1464 1508 1590 1615 1473 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	244% Outstanding	Read 1,710 Write 1,609 Mixed 1,636 SusWrite 1,491 363% 1,612 MB/s	4K Read 44.7 4K Write 75.3 4K Mixed 56.7 180% 58.9 MB/s	DQ Read 688 DQ Write 557 DQ Mixed 628 468% 624 MB/s
Poor: 236% ↑ This bench: 244% Great: 477%
Md4000gsa6472dvr 0 4TB 25 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 1.5TB free Firmware: MJAONS04 SusWrite @10s intervals: 119 120 119 118 118 119 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	75.8% Very good	Read 145 Write 150 Mixed 73.2 SusWrite 119 89% 122 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.8 165% 1.3 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 75.8% Great: 91%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Team Group Inc. TEAMGROUP-UD4-3200 2x8GB 35,395 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	75.1% Very good	MC Read 29 MC Write 29.6 MC Mixed 24.5 79% 27.7 GB/s	SC Read 15.8 SC Write 21.1 SC Mixed 18 52% 18.3 GB/s	Latency 76.1 53% 76.1 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 75.1% Great: 112%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 86%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 72%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA - $240

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	679x
Core i7-7700KIntel $249Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	121x
Core i5-6600KIntel $113Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	75x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	168x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	142x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	76x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	60x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsung $250Bench 199%, 40,327 samples	42x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $330Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	32x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	40x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	39x
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $57Bench 85%, 31,641 samples	21x

EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER

Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $748

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $159	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16