Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battleship	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 60% Gunboat


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 94.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	71.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	69.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (56%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	5.6 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160309
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 17 '16 at 20:08
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	56%

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)	94.1% Outstanding	Memory 96.9 1-Core 135 2-Core 238 90% 157 Pts	4-Core 492 8-Core 728 76% 610 Pts	64-Core 730 45% 730 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% Nvidia(10DE 1116) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1576 MHz, MLim: 1923 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 373.6 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71.6% Very good	Lighting 91.8 Reflection 92.4 Parallax 81.8 75% 88.7 fps	MRender 88.3 Gravity 81.1 Splatting 73 65% 80.8 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 71.6% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 158GB free (System drive) Firmware: 527ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 111898692181 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 -62423054664004 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1068 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 454 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 34 45 64427458594 (C2) HDA temperature 34 45 64427458594 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 104 104 111898692181 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 104 104 111898692181 (CC) Soft ECC correction 104 104 111898692181 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 18971 (EA) Unknown 0 0 19134 (F1) Unknown 0 0 19134 (F2) Unknown 0 0 16248	69.5% Good	Read 470 Write 231 Mixed 241 69% 314 MB/s	4K Read 29 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 12.8 116% 49.3 MB/s	DQ Read 38.8 DQ Write 122 DQ Mixed 40.6 42% 67 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 69.5% Great: 85%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 69GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1150 (03) Spinup time 176 170 2200 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3594 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 16079 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 770 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 152 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3452 (C2) HDA temperature 111 105 32 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 10 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 5 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 198 196 866	59.3% Above average	Read 103 Write 103 Mixed 117 82% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.79 4K Mixed 0.19 88% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 59.3% Great: 108%
Seagate ST940210AS 40GB 456 User benchmarks, average bench 20% 24GB free Firmware: 3.ALC Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4616 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 245229608 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 9768 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1982 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 40 555679777 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 368 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 250235 (C2) HDA temperature 33 60 68719476769 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 79 63 174753660 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	22% Poor	Read 38.3 Write 38.1 Mixed 38.6 29% 38.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.22 4K Mixed 0.36 84% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 22% Great: 24%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR3 1866 C9 2x4GB 595 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 1867 MHz clocked @ 1904 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	73.4% Very good	MC Read 25.6 MC Write 26.6 MC Mixed 22.7 71% 25 GB/s	SC Read 21 SC Write 25.3 SC Mixed 24.3 67% 23.5 GB/s	Latency 50.8 79% 50.8 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 73.4% Great: 70%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	2,671x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	311x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	250x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	525x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	254x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	246x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 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	183x
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: 62% - Good

Total price: $642

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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