Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 91.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	89.7% 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	182% 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 VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	10.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160309
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 10 '17 at 15:34
Run Duration	180 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.9% Outstanding	Memory 97.2 1-Core 138 2-Core 271 94% 169 Pts	4-Core 467 8-Core 711 73% 589 Pts	64-Core 711 44% 711 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 91.9% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Zotac(19DA 1396) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1607 MHz, MLim: 1805 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.43 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89.7% Excellent	Lighting 118 Reflection 117 Parallax 116 96% 117 fps	MRender 96.6 Gravity 104 Splatting 84.6 77% 95.1 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.7% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 500GB 31,052 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 225GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1183 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 278 (B1) Unknown 98 98 8 (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 71 51 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 29 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3767016595	86.2% Excellent	Read 480 Write 269 Mixed 275 75% 342 MB/s	4K Read 44.1 4K Write 72.4 4K Mixed 28.6 142% 48.4 MB/s	DQ Read 305 DQ Write 77 DQ Mixed 18.9 58% 134 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 123%
Intel 750 Series NVMe PCIe 400GB-$550 8,641 User benchmarks, average bench 186% 209GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01H0 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	182% Outstanding	Read 1,369 Write 977 Mixed 1,221 264% 1,189 MB/s	4K Read 42.1 4K Write 184 4K Mixed 30.4 200% 85.5 MB/s	DQ Read 43 DQ Write 385 DQ Mixed 188 153% 205 MB/s
Poor: 123% ↑ This bench: 182% Great: 230%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$50 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 170661504 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1439 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 27326667 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 5175 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1456 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 72 60 471072796 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 566 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 28473 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 47244640284 (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 79323750995497 (F1) Unknown 100 253 19642939236 (F2) Unknown 100 253 20570230256	104% Outstanding	Read 190 Write 173 Mixed 148 128% 170 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 5.38 4K Mixed 0.66 195% 2.19 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 108%
WD WD20EVDS-63T3B0 2TB 919 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 146 144 9683 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3398 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6865 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2019 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 641 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 190 190 31810 (C2) HDA temperature 123 103 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	55% Above average	Read 101 Write 90.8 Mixed 77.3 67% 89.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.73 4K Mixed 0.29 83% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 55% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CM3X8GA2133C11Y4 2x8GB 666 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2176 MHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	77.8% Very good	MC Read 27.5 MC Write 29.1 MC Mixed 24.3 77% 27 GB/s	SC Read 19.5 SC Write 24.9 SC Mixed 24.6 66% 23 GB/s	Latency 49.5 81% 49.5 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 80%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	2,669x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	310x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	250x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	524x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	254x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	246x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	197x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	172x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	125x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	182x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	158x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	101x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $657

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