Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 78% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 95.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	89.9% 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	66.1% 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 @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171227
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 01 '18 at 06:46
Run Duration	137 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (63^rd 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 way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.9% Outstanding	Memory 97.2 1-Core 134 2-Core 267 93% 166 Pts	4-Core 510 8-Core 744 78% 627 Pts	64-Core 739 46% 739 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3302) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.9% Excellent	Lighting 114 Reflection 117 Parallax 101 93% 111 fps	MRender 99.7 Gravity 103 Splatting 103 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 139GB free Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	191% Outstanding	Read 1,952 Write 1,184 Mixed 1,261 324% 1,466 MB/s	4K Read 32.2 4K Write 57 4K Mixed 27.3 114% 38.8 MB/s	DQ Read 89.9 DQ Write 203 DQ Mixed 24 53% 106 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 191% Great: 236%
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB-$42 75,831 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 70GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6031 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 849 (B1) Unknown 47 47 266 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 43 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 10 (EB) Unknown 99 99 118 (F1) Unknown 99 99 28391569012	66.1% Good	Read 477 Write 265 Mixed 275 75% 339 MB/s	4K Read 29.2 4K Write 59.3 4K Mixed 17.1 98% 35.2 MB/s	DQ Read 39.3 DQ Write 65.3 DQ Mixed 16.6 23% 40.4 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 114%
OCZ Vertex 460 240GB-$203 1,730 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 41GB free Firmware: 1.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 10 10 10 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 9561 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1794 (AB) Unknown 80 80 81673040 (AE) Unknown 100 100 167 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 10 (D0) Spin buzz 100 100 342 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 1 (E9) Unknown 89 89 89 (F1) Unknown 100 100 18528 (F2) Unknown 100 100 30377 (F9) Unknown 100 100 1120694734	88.5% Excellent	Read 505 Write 489 Mixed 504 112% 499 MB/s	4K Read 22 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 19 113% 48.5 MB/s	DQ Read 23 DQ Write 220 DQ Mixed 83.1 76% 109 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 105%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$78 31,641 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	MC Read 39.5 MC Write 41.7 MC Mixed 33.6 109% 38.3 GB/s	SC Read 22.4 SC Write 46.6 SC Mixed 32.7 97% 33.9 GB/s	Latency 49.6 81% 49.6 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 107%

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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 $133	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