Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 111% UFO	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 94% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 87.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	129% 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.
Boot Drive	75.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20170124
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 26 '17 at 15:55
Run Duration	203 Seconds
Run User	SRB-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (55^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	87.7% Excellent	Memory 95.1 1-Core 130 2-Core 248 89% 158 Pts	4-Core 433 8-Core 666 68% 549 Pts	64-Core 677 42% 677 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 87.7% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85E4) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.0 Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	129% Outstanding	Lighting 178 Reflection 203 Parallax 194 145% 192 fps	MRender 133 Gravity 178 Splatting 126 118% 146 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 129% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Patriot Blast 480GB 1,476 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 152GB free Firmware: SAFM11.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 7 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 9719 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 853 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 538 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2162751 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 266 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 97 (F1) Unknown 100 100 15419	64.9% Good	Read 490 Write 175 Mixed 264 68% 310 MB/s	4K Read 31.2 4K Write 67.4 4K Mixed 9.24 95% 36 MB/s	DQ Read 301 DQ Write 61.2 DQ Mixed 44 68% 135 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 64.9% Great: 99%
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 36GB free (System drive) Firmware: 507KC4 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 112 56807550 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 -23673859716030 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1975 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 219 (B1) Unknown 0 0 7 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 32 43 60132360224 (C2) HDA temperature 32 43 60132360224 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 56807550 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 56807550 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 56807550 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 89 89 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 48173 (EA) Unknown 0 0 31146 (F1) Unknown 0 0 31146 (F2) Unknown 0 0 20079	75.4% Very good	Read 494 Write 187 Mixed 236 67% 306 MB/s	4K Read 33.5 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 20.8 138% 56.1 MB/s	DQ Read 57.6 DQ Write 134 DQ Mixed 17.3 36% 69.7 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 75.4% Great: 87%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB-$230 19,674 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 339GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 99 21159320 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 440 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 16615185 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 5252 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 410 (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 56 572063776 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 55 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4837 (C2) HDA temperature 32 44 77309411360 (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 58050777978499 (F1) Unknown 100 253 16306469156 (F2) Unknown 100 253 133260366935	57.2% Above average	Read 87.7 Write 110 Mixed 89.4 72% 95.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 5.3 4K Mixed 0.48 170% 2.08 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 57.2% Great: 94%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 243GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 36321237 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 3067 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 107376214 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 30561 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3048 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 97 97 4295098373 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 52 605487138 (C2) HDA temperature 34 48 60129542178 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 42 19 36321237 (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 -18326625413028 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1816910490 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3666288336	50.6% Above average	Read 87.6 Write 88.6 Mixed 100 70% 92.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.37 82% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 50.6% Great: 68%
Samsung M3 Portable 1TB 17,632 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 315GB free, PID 61b6 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	26.7% Poor	Read 54.2 Write 68.5 Mixed 48.7 75% 57.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.32 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.26 53% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 26.7% Great: 42%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 19,522 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	61.3% Good	MC Read 21.1 MC Write 22 MC Mixed 18.9 59% 20.7 GB/s	SC Read 16.4 SC Write 22.9 SC Mixed 20 56% 19.8 GB/s	Latency 56.7 70% 56.7 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 61.3% 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 HERO

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	2,689x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	312x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	250x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	526x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	255x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	246x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	198x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	174x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	126x

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	102x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $642

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16