Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 90.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	87.2% 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	185% 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170124
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Oct 18 '17 at 16:31
Run Duration	162 Seconds
Run User	SGP-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing above expectations (60^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 (99^th percentile)	90.3% Outstanding	Memory 95.1 1-Core 136 2-Core 268 93% 166 Pts	4-Core 461 8-Core 711 72% 586 Pts	64-Core 716 44% 716 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 90.3% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 855B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1800 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	87.2% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 118 Parallax 107 91% 112 fps	MRender 97 Gravity 102 Splatting 95.4 80% 98.2 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 430GB free Firmware: X35510RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 6460 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2351 (A5) Unknown 100 100 34391130480 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 22 (A8) Unknown 100 100 9 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 6 (AE) Unknown 100 100 215 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 69 47 201865035807 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 2 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 261998575701 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 5025 (EA) Unknown 100 100 15532 (F1) Unknown 253 253 13456 (F2) Unknown 253 253 14982 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	84.2% Excellent	Read 491 Write 305 Mixed 279 79% 358 MB/s	4K Read 35.8 4K Write 78.8 4K Mixed 20 122% 44.9 MB/s	DQ Read 332 DQ Write 146 DQ Mixed 40.4 82% 173 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 84.2% Great: 107%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 96GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	185% Outstanding	Read 1,429 Write 703 Mixed 931 225% 1,021 MB/s	4K Read 47.9 4K Write 173 4K Mixed 50.1 229% 90.4 MB/s	DQ Read 478 DQ Write 265 DQ Mixed 181 186% 308 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 185% Great: 243%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 70027112 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1850 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 8155702 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 5233 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1847 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 62 538705952 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 43 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 58 58 85893 (C2) HDA temperature 32 40 94489280544 (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 42026254995850 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8971553782 (F2) Unknown 100 253 40724971186	51.6% Above average	Read 89.6 Write 90.2 Mixed 97.9 70% 92.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.22 82% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 51.6% Great: 113%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 305GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 173 2300 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3627 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10320 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3407 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 334 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3292 (C2) HDA temperature 112 101 31 (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	80.5% Excellent	Read 151 Write 130 Mixed 132 104% 138 MB/s	4K Read 1.24 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 0.37 137% 1.34 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR3-1600 CL11 4GB 4x4GB 338 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	67.7% Good	MC Read 24.3 MC Write 25.2 MC Mixed 20.7 67% 23.4 GB/s	SC Read 13.7 SC Write 24.8 SC Mixed 22.4 58% 20.3 GB/s	Latency 56.7 70% 56.7 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 67.7% Great: 68%

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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	2,669x
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