Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA

Performance Results


Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 45% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	58.2% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	108% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171227
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 31 '18 at 01:57
Run Duration	341 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	87.3% Excellent	Memory 87 1-Core 128 2-Core 255 87% 157 Pts	4-Core 508 8-Core 495 67% 501 Pts	64-Core 477 30% 477 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 390X-$340 26,573 User benchmarks, average bench 54% Asus(1043 04D7) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1050 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 18.3.2 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	58.2% Above average	Lighting 71.8 Reflection 63.8 Parallax 91.1 58% 75.6 fps	MRender 63.4 Gravity 61.4 Splatting 81.7 58% 68.8 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 58.2% Great: 57%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 121GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 18650 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1886 (B1) Unknown 94 94 123 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 58 48 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 95 (EB) Unknown 99 99 526 (F1) Unknown 99 99 57131899366	108% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 414 Mixed 419 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 42.4 4K Write 73.1 4K Mixed 44.4 160% 53.3 MB/s	DQ Read 340 DQ Write 256 DQ Mixed 105 131% 234 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 124%
Corsair Force LS 120GB-$98 9,315 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 20GB free Firmware: S9FM02.6 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd 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 8712 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1491 (A2) Unknown 78 78 35 (AA) Unknown 100 100 63 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 4260069 (AE) Unknown 100 100 24 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 60563 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 24 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 30 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 97 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4403 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1818	41.9% Average	Read 402 Write 78.6 Mixed 126 44% 202 MB/s	4K Read 22.9 4K Write 49.5 4K Mixed 3.03 65% 25.1 MB/s	DQ Read 110 DQ Write 39.5 DQ Mixed 0.26 20% 49.9 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 41.9% Great: 84%
Toshiba P300 2TB-$61 100,891 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 364GB free Firmware: MX4OACF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 68 (03) Spinup time 128 128 21494169895 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 7792 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 10677 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1351 (C0) Power-off retract count 81 81 23861 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 81 81 23861 (C2) HDA temperature 166 166 210454446116 (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 1	76.3% Very good	Read 136 Write 130 Mixed 130 99% 132 MB/s	4K Read 1.07 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 0.24 100% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 76.3% Great: 108%
Seagate ST9320325AS 320GB-$34 18,767 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 77GB free Firmware: 0003SDM1 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 79 148780048 (03) Spinup time 99 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4653 (05) Reallocated sector count 78 78 469 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 117581024 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 18662 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1894 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 17605 (BC) Unknown 100 97 12 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 43 632033312804 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 62 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 207 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 12 12 176804 (C2) HDA temperature 36 57 30064771108 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 48 45 148780048 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	38.5% Below average	Read 67.4 Write 66.6 Mixed 63.7 50% 65.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 1.14 4K Mixed 0.31 70% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 38.5% Great: 39%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 42GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 197231098 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11905 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 65 60 85961174162 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 17943 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2313 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 83 83 17 (BC) Unknown 100 98 68720590961 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 51 639303715 (C2) HDA temperature 35 49 64424509475 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 34 22 197231098 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 22501333687939 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3064616922 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4096926961	53.8% Above average	Read 95.6 Write 91.9 Mixed 91.4 70% 93 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 0.58 114% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 53.8% Great: 70%
SanDisk Cruzer Blade 8GB 30,139 User benchmarks, average bench 10% 3GB free, PID 5567 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	10.9% Very poor	Read 23.3 Write 6.86 Mixed 7.27 13% 12.5 MB/s	4K Read 7 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.93 106% 3.12 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 10.9% Great: 13%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$57 31,641 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (39^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	79.7% Very good	MC Read 29 MC Write 30.1 MC Mixed 25.6 81% 28.2 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 30.9 SC Mixed 24.5 71% 24.7 GB/s	Latency 70.4 57% 70.4 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 79.7% Great: 107%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA - $240

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	673x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	116x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	75x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	166x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	142x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	75x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 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 $45Bench 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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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