Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 68% Battle cruiser	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 94.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	67.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	118% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colori
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170124
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Jan 11 '18 at 14:05
Run Duration	136 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	16%

PC Performing above expectations (65^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.1% Outstanding	Memory 97.7 1-Core 137 2-Core 274 95% 169 Pts	4-Core 487 8-Core 711 75% 599 Pts	64-Core 727 45% 727 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 94.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Asus(1043 8518) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1564 MHz, MLim: 2000 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	67.4% Good	Lighting 85.4 Reflection 90.1 Parallax 79.4 70% 85 fps	MRender 87.6 Gravity 76.6 Splatting 70.5 63% 78.2 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 67.4% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$139 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 504GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11925 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 4545 (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 71 47 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 414 (F1) Unknown 99 99 38613456168	93.6% Outstanding	Read 502 Write 401 Mixed 422 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 29.7 4K Write 59 4K Mixed 29.8 114% 39.5 MB/s	DQ Read 370 DQ Write 264 DQ Mixed 130 148% 254 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 93.6% Great: 133%
Samsung SM951 AHCI PCIe M.2 128GB-$110 2,093 User benchmarks, average bench 165% 77GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW2500Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11929 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 4835 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 78 78 686 (AE) Unknown 99 99 321 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 421 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 61 34 39 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 87824 (F1) Unknown 99 99 29952 (F2) Unknown 99 99 31173	118% Outstanding	Read 762 Write 619 Mixed 693 154% 691 MB/s	4K Read 29 4K Write 59.4 4K Mixed 33 118% 40.5 MB/s	DQ Read 368 DQ Write 242 DQ Mixed 166 162% 259 MB/s
Poor: 116% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 188%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 649GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 168 4341 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10664 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 17769 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6081 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1001 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9662 (C2) HDA temperature 115 90 32 (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	65.7% Good	Read 113 Write 116 Mixed 111 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 1.11 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.54 140% 1.16 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 65.7% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 2133 C11 4x4GB 1,128 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	85.2% Excellent	MC Read 31.2 MC Write 31.8 MC Mixed 26.4 85% 29.8 GB/s	SC Read 20.9 SC Write 24.9 SC Mixed 27.8 70% 24.5 GB/s	Latency 47.3 85% 47.3 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 85.2% Great: 96%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	2,666x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	309x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	250x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	523x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	253x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	245x

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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $131	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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