Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA

Performance Results


Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 84.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	99% 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	76.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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	23.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	2 Days
Run Date	Jan 03 '18 at 17:02
Run Duration	162 Seconds
Run User	AUT-User
Background CPU	27%

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PC Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$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)	84.3% Excellent	Memory 89.8 1-Core 126 2-Core 247 86% 154 Pts	4-Core 425 8-Core 660 67% 543 Pts	64-Core 708 44% 708 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Zotac(19DA 0426) CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2702 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing below potential (26^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	99% Outstanding	Lighting 130 Reflection 126 Parallax 122 106% 126 fps	MRender 106 Gravity 113 Splatting 96.9 86% 105 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 99% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 243GB free Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2991 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 557 (A5) Unknown 100 100 10616965 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 40 (A8) Unknown 100 100 9 (A9) Unknown 100 100 911 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 50 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 63 270583791652 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 163210592294 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2262 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2736 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2599 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2256 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	73.4% Very good	Read 499 Write 304 Mixed 261 78% 355 MB/s	4K Read 26.2 4K Write 46.3 4K Mixed 11.3 79% 27.9 MB/s	DQ Read 354 DQ Write 201 DQ Mixed 8.78 79% 188 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 73.4% Great: 107%
Adata Premier SP550 240GB-$74 29,295 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 146GB free (System drive) Firmware: P0330AA Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^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 100 100 474 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 538 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 38 (A3) Unknown 100 100 203 (94) Unknown 100 100 218566 (95) Unknown 100 100 3188 (96) Unknown 100 100 3016 (97) Unknown 100 100 3167 (A4) Unknown 100 100 97049 (A5) Unknown 100 100 114 (A6) Unknown 100 100 14 (A7) Unknown 100 100 75 (A9) Unknown 100 100 93 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 15 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 46369174323233 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 350374 (F2) Unknown 100 100 107332 (F5) Unknown 100 100 573195 (F6) Unknown 100 100 437132 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0	76.9% Very good	Read 494 Write 263 Mixed 271 75% 342 MB/s	4K Read 32.3 4K Write 61.1 4K Mixed 19.1 106% 37.5 MB/s	DQ Read 276 DQ Write 180 DQ Mixed 10.3 66% 156 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 76.9% Great: 92%
Toshiba MD04ACA50D 5TB 209 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 3TB free Firmware: FS2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^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 10435 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2503 (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 93 93 2881 (0A) Spinup retry count 150 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 551 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 44 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 3005 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 253404053550 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 97 97 1389 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 294 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	102% Outstanding	Read 175 Write 182 Mixed 167 131% 175 MB/s	4K Read 1.12 4K Write 2.03 4K Mixed 0.33 121% 1.16 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 108%
WD Green 1.5TB (2010)-$170 41,439 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 962GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 186 163 5666 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6202 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 21231 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1288 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 165 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 189 189 33614 (C2) HDA temperature 106 89 44 (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 0	55.9% Above average	Read 102 Write 93.3 Mixed 79.3 68% 91.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.34 4K Mixed 0.15 74% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 55.9% Great: 63%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GB-$80 110,884 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (28^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.1% Very good	MC Read 26.3 MC Write 27.8 MC Mixed 22.6 73% 25.6 GB/s	SC Read 16.3 SC Write 25.8 SC Mixed 20.9 60% 21 GB/s	Latency 67.5 59% 67.5 ns
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 114%

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Gaming 86%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 73%

Battleship

Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA - $240

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	673x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 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	60x
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 $57Bench 85%, 31,641 samples	21x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $969

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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