Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA

Performance Results


Gaming 68% Battle cruiser	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (41st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 59 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	76.8% 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	174% 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.

High background CPU (27%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA (all builds)
Memory	25.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160325
Uptime	2.4 Days
Run Date	Jan 07 '17 at 08:57
Run Duration	177 Seconds
Run User	ARG-User
Background CPU	27%

PC Performing as expected (41^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	83.5% Excellent	Memory 89.9 1-Core 132 2-Core 245 88% 156 Pts	4-Core 416 8-Core 664 66% 540 Pts	64-Core 681 42% 681 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Zotac(19DA 1394) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1418 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing below potential (43^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	76.8% Very good	Lighting 98.6 Reflection 104 Parallax 94.1 80% 98.9 fps	MRender 86.6 Gravity 90.8 Splatting 80.5 70% 86 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 76.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 500GB 13,939 User benchmarks, average bench 179% 102GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	174% Outstanding	Read 970 Write 956 Mixed 954 215% 960 MB/s	4K Read 43.7 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 48.1 184% 66.3 MB/s	DQ Read 399 DQ Write 514 DQ Mixed 199 222% 371 MB/s
Poor: 82% ↑ This bench: 174% Great: 313%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$27 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 427GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 41892784 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1102 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 11143679 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14352 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 264 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 73 59 588906523 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 14 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 64 64 73983 (C2) HDA temperature 27 41 60129542171 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 41772851929841 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5662177314 (F2) Unknown 100 253 24751996823	83.5% Excellent	Read 164 Write 127 Mixed 167 116% 153 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 0.19 79% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 83.5% Great: 112%
Toshiba MK3252GSX 320GB-$70 3,538 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 230GB free Firmware: LV010A Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^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 1591 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2812 (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 53 53 18925 (0A) Spinup retry count 155 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1281 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 196 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 87 87 130941 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 253404184607 (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 8287 (DE) Loaded hours 92 92 3322 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 346 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	16.5% Very poor	Read 36.6 Write 20.7 Mixed 18.7 19% 25.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.22 4K Write 0.81 4K Mixed 0.18 44% 0.4 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 16.5% Great: 34%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMU16GX4M2C3200C16 4x8GB 4,091 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (16^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	71.8% Very good	MC Read 25.3 MC Write 27.1 MC Mixed 22.7 72% 25 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 27.7 SC Mixed 23.9 66% 23 GB/s	Latency 67.3 59% 67.3 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 71.8% Great: 117%

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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	675x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	119x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	75x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	166x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	142x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	76x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	60x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsung $250Bench 199%, 40,327 samples	42x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	32x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	39x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	39x
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $38Bench 85%, 31,641 samples	21x

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Value: 98% - Outstanding

Total price: $750

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16