Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 132% UFO	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 113% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 94.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	139% 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	273% 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170124
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Nov 07 '17 at 06:36
Run Duration	188 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (65^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 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.4% Outstanding	Memory 98.6 1-Core 140 2-Core 275 96% 171 Pts	4-Core 485 8-Core 756 77% 620 Pts	64-Core 756 47% 756 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Titan X Pascal-$286 8,692 User benchmarks, average bench 121% Nvidia(10DE 119A) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 2852 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	139% Outstanding	Lighting 197 Reflection 218 Parallax 214 161% 210 fps	MRender 141 Gravity 191 Splatting 132 125% 155 fps
Poor: 108% ↑ This bench: 139% Great: 132%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX100 512GB-$200 31,545 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 149GB free Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 23144 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 457 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 89 89 347 (AE) Unknown 100 100 106 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4403 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 65 56 188979675171 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 89 89 11 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 51050934116 (F7) Unknown 100 100 1707195327 (F8) Unknown 100 100 845918396	80.8% Excellent	Read 471 Write 400 Mixed 404 95% 425 MB/s	4K Read 25.8 4K Write 47.6 4K Mixed 36.2 111% 36.5 MB/s	DQ Read 74.4 DQ Write 36.2 DQ Mixed 43.8 36% 51.4 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 107%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 74GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	273% Outstanding	Read 2,757 Write 1,122 Mixed 1,284 376% 1,721 MB/s	4K Read 64.5 4K Write 175 4K Mixed 44.4 247% 94.6 MB/s	DQ Read 606 DQ Write 371 DQ Mixed 202 228% 393 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 273% Great: 236%
Seagate Backup+ Hub BK 6TB 10,357 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 1.5TB free Firmware: D781 Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	61.2% Good	Read 111 Write 101 Mixed 79.6 72% 97 MB/s	4K Read 1.9 4K Write 5.69 4K Mixed 0.41 230% 2.67 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 61.2% Great: 90%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 1TB free Firmware: CC52 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 224706896 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7182 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 62685699 (09) Power-on hours count 65 65 30882 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 656 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032834 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 51 4900323363 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 417 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 207451 (C2) HDA temperature 35 49 -140737488355293 (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 12463995102526 (F1) Unknown 100 253 113320585412 (F2) Unknown 100 253 123231866651	70% Very good	Read 124 Write 120 Mixed 110 89% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 0.93 4K Mixed 0.19 70% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 96%
Toshiba X300 5TB-$125 12,743 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: FP2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 8800 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 73 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 5393 (0A) Spinup retry count 101 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 68 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 2 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 33 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 161 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 236224446506 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 87 87 5353 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 555 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	80.3% Excellent	Read 143 Write 137 Mixed 109 97% 129 MB/s	4K Read 1.76 4K Write 2.07 4K Mixed 0.28 144% 1.37 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 4x4GB 4,979 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	89% Excellent	MC Read 32.2 MC Write 32.7 MC Mixed 27.7 88% 30.9 GB/s	SC Read 23.2 SC Write 26 SC Mixed 29.5 75% 26.2 GB/s	Latency 43 93% 43 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 103%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	2,668x
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	253x
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 $129Bench 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