Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 105% UFO	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 90% Aircraft carrier


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 87.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	119% 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.
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.

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Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	9.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160309
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 25 '17 at 15:39
Run Duration	215 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	17%

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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 0.8 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	87.1% Excellent	Memory 97.8 1-Core 129 2-Core 252 90% 160 Pts	4-Core 412 8-Core 681 67% 547 Pts	64-Core 668 41% 668 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 87.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6386) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2113 MHz, MLim: 2602 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	119% Outstanding	Lighting 164 Reflection 147 Parallax 153 134% 155 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 149 Splatting 118 104% 128 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 295GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7942 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 971 (B1) Unknown 98 98 39 (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 67 48 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 127 (F1) Unknown 99 99 30854227879	106% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 412 Mixed 422 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 41.7 4K Write 76.7 4K Mixed 44.6 161% 54.3 MB/s	DQ Read 283 DQ Write 207 DQ Mixed 116 122% 202 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 134GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q 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 3341 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 728 (B1) Unknown 98 98 26 (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 62 49 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 110 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10670167831
Poor: 72% Great: 124%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 160 (03) Spinup time 189 178 5516 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1922 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 9617 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1171 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 245 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 186 186 42695 (C2) HDA temperature 112 105 38 (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 114 Write 115 Mixed 108 85% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.85 4K Write 0.42 4K Mixed 0.19 64% 0.49 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 65.7% Great: 83%
WD Blue 4TB (2015)-$85 124,615 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 216 170 4166 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 47 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 165 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 40 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 25 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 469 (C2) HDA temperature 113 108 37 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	89% Excellent	Read 158 Write 152 Mixed 152 116% 154 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 2.37 4K Mixed 0.23 104% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 101%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 930GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 72602720 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 855 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 53977238 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3141 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 881 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 56 605749284 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 245 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3265 (C2) HDA temperature 36 44 103079215140 (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 6343666699942 (F1) Unknown 100 253 57540457164 (F2) Unknown 100 253 69548269443	111% Outstanding	Read 192 Write 193 Mixed 142 131% 176 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 5.23 4K Mixed 1.02 247% 2.38 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 112%
Initio INIC-3609 750GB 34 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 375GB free, PID 3940 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	31.6% Below average	Read 77 Write 78.4 Mixed 59.4 91% 71.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.05 4K Mixed 0.16 43% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 31.6% Great: 44%

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 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	85.2% Excellent	MC Read 30.3 MC Write 32.5 MC Mixed 27.6 86% 30.1 GB/s	SC Read 20.3 SC Write 23.6 SC Mixed 25.1 66% 23 GB/s	Latency 46.8 85% 46.8 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 85.2% Great: 88%

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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	2,669x
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 $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $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