Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA

Performance Results


Gaming 38% Jet ski	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 33% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 99.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	31.7% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	63.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160325
Uptime	1.3 Days
Run Date	Jan 17 '18 at 21:37
Run Duration	164 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing as expected (59^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	99.9% Outstanding	Memory 93.6 1-Core 145 2-Core 286 96% 175 Pts	4-Core 573 8-Core 813 87% 693 Pts	64-Core 808 50% 808 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 99.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1050-Ti-$59 946,701 User benchmarks, average bench 29% Gigabyte(1458 378E) ≥ 4GB; CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	31.7% Below average	Lighting 39.8 Reflection 31.4 Parallax 37.7 32% 36.3 fps	MRender 38.4 Gravity 37.8 Splatting 35.9 30% 37.4 fps
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 31.7% Great: 33%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 62GB free Firmware: X411 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3927 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 996 (A5) Unknown 100 100 73029714116 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 27 (A8) Unknown 100 100 19 (A9) Unknown 100 100 404 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 6 (AE) Unknown 100 100 951 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 69 66 283468955679 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 240523739221 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3219 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3993 (F1) Unknown 253 253 3251 (F2) Unknown 253 253 3110 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	66.6% Good	Read 315 Write 261 Mixed 223 59% 266 MB/s	4K Read 31.8 4K Write 55.1 4K Mixed 16.9 99% 34.6 MB/s	DQ Read 263 DQ Write 154 DQ Mixed 41.2 76% 153 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 108%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 4GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z220 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 40 100 2088 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1050 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1129 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1181 (A9) Unknown 100 100 36 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1157 (AE) Unknown 100 100 137 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 57 100 206158430251 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 38 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 241455 (F1) Unknown 253 253 9003 (F2) Unknown 253 253 7478	63.7% Good	Read 348 Write 339 Mixed 320 75% 336 MB/s	4K Read 23.7 4K Write 74.1 4K Mixed 4.34 81% 34 MB/s	DQ Read 171 DQ Write 144 DQ Mixed 18 52% 111 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 63.7% Great: 86%
Seagate ST310003 40SV 1TB 22 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 909GB free Firmware: SV16 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 119573266 (03) Spinup time 87 83 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2860 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 12913040944 (09) Power-on hours count 46 46 47757 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 9 (0C) Power cycle count 99 37 1743 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 53 605290532 (C2) HDA temperature 36 47 30064771108 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 49 45 119573266 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	56.8% Above average	Read 94.4 Write 104 Mixed 82.8 70% 93.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 0.65 4K Mixed 0.24 58% 0.45 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 56.8% Great: 57%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 117GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 165253736 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1006 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 8418112 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4018 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1060 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 4295294981 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 64 538247199 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 89 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1221 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 68719476767 (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 -26512833111470 (F1) Unknown 100 253 11307398240 (F2) Unknown 100 253 14292371440343	63.2% Good	Read 105 Write 114 Mixed 117 84% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 5.21 4K Mixed 0.67 198% 2.18 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$201 13,611 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2197 MHz Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	77.3% Very good	MC Read 27.6 MC Write 29.3 MC Mixed 24 77% 27 GB/s	SC Read 17.5 SC Write 30.8 SC Mixed 24.9 70% 24.4 GB/s	Latency 60.8 66% 60.8 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 77.3% Great: 103%

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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 $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) $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