Asus MAXIMUS VII FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 82% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 70% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (44th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 56 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 91.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	88.9% 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	95.1% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia 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 FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	24.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151028
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 23 '17 at 16:28
Run Duration	386 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	22%

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PC Performing as expected (44^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)	91.7% Outstanding	Memory 94.4 1-Core 134 2-Core 260 92% 163 Pts	4-Core 479 8-Core 714 74% 597 Pts	64-Core 713 44% 713 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 91.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3308) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.9% Excellent	Lighting 114 Reflection 51.6 Parallax 97.7 93% 87.9 fps	MRender 93.1 Gravity 99.9 Splatting 101 81% 98.1 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 500GB 31,052 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 309GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5556 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 609 (B1) Unknown 96 96 20 (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 73 50 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 51 (F1) Unknown 99 99 18486349639	87.4% Excellent	Read 471 Write 264 Mixed 272 74% 336 MB/s	4K Read 41.2 4K Write 62.8 4K Mixed 31.5 136% 45.2 MB/s	DQ Read 337 DQ Write 183 DQ Mixed 70.5 103% 197 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 123%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 149GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9784 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1303 (B1) Unknown 98 98 31 (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 48 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 105 (F1) Unknown 99 99 28117083069	95.1% Outstanding	Read 489 Write 395 Mixed 399 95% 428 MB/s	4K Read 23.2 4K Write 75.7 4K Mixed 39.1 125% 46 MB/s	DQ Read 317 DQ Write 224 DQ Mixed 97.3 120% 213 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 95.1% Great: 134%
Seagate ST3000DM003-1F216N 3TB 4,050 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 882GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 190720640 (03) Spinup time 94 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3105 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 12971723941 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 24968 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2083 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 150326149166 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 39 769405288484 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 346 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 75 75 51016 (C2) HDA temperature 36 61 64424509476 (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 103298258449420 (F1) Unknown 100 253 50900760728 (F2) Unknown 100 253 74162518790	60.9% Good	Read 92 Write 120 Mixed 94.5 77% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 0.87 4K Mixed 0.15 52% 0.49 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 99%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 716GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 92 88 213468905 (03) Spinup time 95 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1852 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 65 60 4298391008 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 13134 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1233 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 1531 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 63 50 623050789 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 153 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 88 88 24926 (C2) HDA temperature 37 50 68719476773 (C5) Current pending sector count 67 67 5416 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 67 67 5416 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 86955907885875 (F1) Unknown 100 253 11951920883 (F2) Unknown 100 253 19227978678	80.6% Excellent	Read 156 Write 125 Mixed 138 105% 140 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.21 74% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 80.6% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 89GB free Firmware: CC25 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 117 99 155320520 (03) Spinup time 95 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1364 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 27207127 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13481 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1285 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 94 94 6 (BE) vendor-specific 60 46 673382440 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 116 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 75 75 50706 (C2) HDA temperature 40 54 68719476776 (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 -6313601917655 (F1) Unknown 100 253 35784230994 (F2) Unknown 100 253 157273105578	51% Above average	Read 93 Write 85.4 Mixed 82 65% 86.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.06 4K Write 0.07 4K Mixed 0.04 8% 0.06 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 51% Great: 113%
Sandisk Cruzer Glide 8GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 12% 4GB free Firmware: 1.26 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	9.91% Terrible	Read 27.2 Write 5.01 Mixed 12 11% 14.7 MB/s	4K Read 5.45 4K Write 2.04 4K Mixed 0.9 364% 2.79 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 9.91% Great: 13%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 4x8GB 8,984 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	60.2% Good	MC Read 21.2 MC Write 21.2 MC Mixed 18.2 58% 20.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 23.2 SC Mixed 19.9 57% 20.1 GB/s	Latency 58.7 68% 58.7 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 60.2% Great: 63%

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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 FORMULA - $284

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	499x
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 $94Bench 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: $926

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 $40	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