Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA

Performance Results


Gaming 69% Battle cruiser	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 60% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	87.3% 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	238% 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 (26%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA (all builds)
Memory	23 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Aug 26 '17 at 14:43
Run Duration	403 Seconds
Run User	BEL-User
Background CPU	26%

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PC Performing as expected (45^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$170 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	75% Very good	Memory 83.4 1-Core 106 2-Core 189 73% 126 Pts	4-Core 358 8-Core 609 59% 484 Pts	64-Core 632 39% 632 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 75% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$278 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	87.3% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 112 Parallax 99.8 90% 108 fps	MRender 95.7 Gravity 102 Splatting 98.7 81% 98.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$249 18,356 User benchmarks, average bench 279% 270GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B6QCXP7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	238% Outstanding	Read 1,889 Write 1,306 Mixed 1,569 353% 1,588 MB/s	4K Read 36.1 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 53.9 178% 64.5 MB/s	DQ Read 681 DQ Write 548 DQ Mixed 275 298% 501 MB/s
Poor: 168% ↑ This bench: 238% Great: 363%
Intel Raid 1 Volume 2TB 7,767 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2TB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	71.9% Very good	Read 135 Write 116 Mixed 120 93% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.34 104% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 123%
WD My Passport 082A 2TB 759 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 100GB free, PID 082a Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile)	16.8% Very poor	Read 38.8 Write 29.5 Mixed 25.1 38% 31.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.19 60% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 16.8% Great: 43%
Teclast CoolFlash 2GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 4% 2GB free, PID 6387 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	3.38% Terrible	Read 13.8 Write 3.7 Mixed 4.57 8% 7.36 MB/s	4K Read 2.41 4K Write 0.003 4K Mixed 0.01 9% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.38% Great: 6%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMU32GX4M2C3200C16 2x16GB 4,608 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 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	66.3% Good	MC Read 25.6 MC Write 26.6 MC Mixed 21.7 70% 24.6 GB/s	SC Read 10.5 SC Write 18.7 SC Mixed 13.6 41% 14.3 GB/s	Latency 74.4 54% 74.4 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 66.3% Great: 110%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 72%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA - $240

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	685x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	121x
Core i5-6600KIntel $49Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	76x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	169x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	144x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	76x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	60x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsung $250Bench 199%, 40,327 samples	42x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $330Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	33x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $50Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	40x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	39x
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $56Bench 85%, 31,641 samples	21x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $750

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