Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA

Performance Results


Gaming 118% UFO	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 99% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 92.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	125% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	184% 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	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	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171227
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 16 '18 at 21:37
Run Duration	206 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.7% Outstanding	Memory 96.7 1-Core 122 2-Core 247 88% 155 Pts	4-Core 478 8-Core 700 74% 589 Pts	64-Core 685 42% 685 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 92.7% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below potential (55^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	125% Outstanding	Lighting 173 Reflection 182 Parallax 174 141% 176 fps	MRender 120 Gravity 167 Splatting 123 111% 137 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 125% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 671GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4042 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 878 (B1) Unknown 99 99 18 (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 72 59 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 55 (F1) Unknown 99 99 39596627876	96.7% Outstanding	Read 499 Write 409 Mixed 415 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 44.6 4K Write 84.5 4K Mixed 32.6 154% 53.9 MB/s	DQ Read 45.3 DQ Write 218 DQ Mixed 110 91% 125 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 96.7% Great: 133%
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 355GB free Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5265 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1007 (A5) Unknown 100 100 77339885967 (A6) Unknown 100 100 4 (A7) Unknown 100 100 21 (A8) Unknown 100 100 23 (A9) Unknown 100 100 462 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 12 (AE) Unknown 100 100 128 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 69 65 279173529631 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1159662600519 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 5975 (EA) Unknown 100 100 8180 (F1) Unknown 253 253 7072 (F2) Unknown 253 253 4156 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	84.1% Excellent	Read 493 Write 347 Mixed 341 87% 394 MB/s	4K Read 36.1 4K Write 70.7 4K Mixed 19.3 117% 42 MB/s	DQ Read 222 DQ Write 193 DQ Mixed 41 76% 152 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 84.1% Great: 108%
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 325GB free Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7023 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1440 (A5) Unknown 100 100 146076467845 (A6) Unknown 100 100 4 (A7) Unknown 100 100 37 (A8) Unknown 100 100 35 (A9) Unknown 100 100 674 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 19 (AE) Unknown 100 100 207 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 61 261993660448 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1460327088711 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 9238 (EA) Unknown 100 100 13228 (F1) Unknown 253 253 11538 (F2) Unknown 253 253 7841 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	82.6% Excellent	Read 496 Write 348 Mixed 332 87% 392 MB/s	4K Read 36 4K Write 69.9 4K Mixed 13.2 108% 39.7 MB/s	DQ Read 288 DQ Write 194 DQ Mixed 13.2 71% 165 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 82.6% Great: 108%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 184GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile)	184% Outstanding	Read 1,804 Write 975 Mixed 1,064 282% 1,281 MB/s	4K Read 51.8 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 24.2 163% 59.1 MB/s	DQ Read 54.1 DQ Write 190 DQ Mixed 63.6 66% 103 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 184% Great: 236%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 931GB free Firmware: CC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 36091712 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2494 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 4391395358 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1727 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2494 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 52 454557723 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 63 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2825 (C2) HDA temperature 27 48 60129542171 (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 -102529459288216 (F1) Unknown 100 253 -139087091176930 (F2) Unknown 100 253 30737628860265	110% Outstanding	Read 190 Write 195 Mixed 163 137% 183 MB/s	4K Read 1.11 4K Write 1.37 4K Mixed 0.36 112% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 112%
WD easystore 25FC 2TB 1,980 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 1.5TB free, PID 25fc Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	43.5% Average	Read 104 Write 105 Mixed 98.5 132% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.19 68% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 43.5% Great: 62%

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 39.9 MC Write 42.4 MC Mixed 33.6 110% 38.6 GB/s	SC Read 21.7 SC Write 44.2 SC Mixed 31.3 93% 32.4 GB/s	Latency 51.3 78% 51.3 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 107%

Take a copy of your results How to check your in-game FPS

System Memory Latency Ladder

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

Custom PC Builder (Explore upgrades for this PC) Build your perfect PC: compare component prices, popularity, speed and value for money

CHOOSE AN UPGRADE:

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

MBD

Typical MAXIMUS VIII HERO ALPHA Builds (Compare 987 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

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	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

EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER

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