Asus MAXIMUS VII FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 49% Yacht	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 41% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 82.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	54.6% 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)
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.

Very high background CPU (38%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	8.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151028
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 02 '16 at 07:07
Run Duration	230 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	38%

PC Performing as expected (59^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 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	82.2% Excellent	Memory 94 1-Core 119 2-Core 220 83% 145 Pts	4-Core 382 8-Core 538 58% 460 Pts	64-Core 576 36% 576 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 82.2% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 295X2 (CrossFire Disabled) 2,533 User benchmarks, average bench 50% AMD(1002 1B2A) ≥ 4GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 16.200.1013.0 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	54.6% Above average	Lighting 68.5 Reflection 57.7 Parallax 82.2 56% 69.5 fps	MRender 57.4 Gravity 57.8 Splatting 72.4 52% 62.5 fps
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 54.6% Great: 55%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 290GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1512 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 105 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 66 56 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 6 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2207973679	96.7% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 411 Mixed 420 100% 447 MB/s	4K Read 39.3 4K Write 83.3 4K Mixed 41.5 157% 54.7 MB/s	DQ Read 42.6 DQ Write 90.2 DQ Mixed 104 68% 78.9 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 96.7% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$190 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 240GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1855 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 150 (B1) Unknown 99 1 17 (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 64 50 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 10 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7818718572
Poor: 71% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 203GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2701 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 232 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (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 65 56 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 22 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3223414953	101% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 412 Mixed 420 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 40.5 4K Write 83.7 4K Mixed 41.8 159% 55.3 MB/s	DQ Read 42.6 DQ Write 236 DQ Mixed 120 98% 133 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 93GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3448 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 329 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 65 54 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 54 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5547240015	107% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 411 Mixed 421 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 41.4 4K Write 86 4K Mixed 42.3 162% 56.6 MB/s	DQ Read 302 DQ Write 237 DQ Mixed 116 128% 218 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 134%
Hitachi HTS541515A9E630 1.5TB 2,360 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 810GB free Firmware: KA0OA500 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 122 122 94489280514 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 445 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 3046 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 332 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 65566 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 51049 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 206159413281 (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 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	56.3% Above average	Read 99.5 Write 96.7 Mixed 102 75% 99.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.33 4K Mixed 0.15 60% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 56.3% Great: 59%
ASMT 2105 250GB 110 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 233GB free, PID 55aa Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	225% Outstanding	Read 396 Write 400 Mixed 389 510% 395 MB/s	4K Read 22.2 4K Write 24.5 4K Mixed 12.9 1,351% 19.8 MB/s	DQ Read 26.1 DQ Write 31.5 DQ Mixed 14.1 1,645% 23.9 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 225% Great: 225%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GB 24,592 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 2400 MHz clocked @ 2407 MHz Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	72% Very good	MC Read 25.2 MC Write 27.6 MC Mixed 24.8 74% 25.9 GB/s	SC Read 15.6 SC Write 19.7 SC Mixed 19.4 52% 18.2 GB/s	Latency 59.9 67% 59.9 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 72% Great: 88%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII FORMULA - $284

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	500x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	36x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	27x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	60x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	52x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	47x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	25x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	23x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	19x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	29x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 74%, 7,519 samples	23x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	23x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $922

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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