Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 104% UFO	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 87% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 89.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	118% 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	47.9% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150625
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 17 '17 at 18:06
Run Duration	200 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing as expected (59^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 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89.1% Excellent	Memory 93.8 1-Core 130 2-Core 253 89% 159 Pts	4-Core 455 8-Core 666 70% 561 Pts	64-Core 669 41% 669 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 89.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Zotac(19DA 0426) CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2702 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	118% Outstanding	Lighting 161 Reflection 159 Parallax 136 131% 152 fps	MRender 123 Gravity 150 Splatting 116 105% 130 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston HyperX Predator AHCI PCIe M.2 240GB-$141 6,458 User benchmarks, average bench 131% 121GB free Firmware: OC34L5TA Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 5118 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 9573 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1171 (64) Unknown 100 100 3101376 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 0 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 60 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 0 0 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 47 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 9502 (B3) Unknown 0 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 32 100 279173922848 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 5118 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 2668 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 5118 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3347 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2031 (F2) Unknown 100 100 18086 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 11259	109% Outstanding	Read 716 Write 554 Mixed 678 145% 650 MB/s	4K Read 28 4K Write 82.2 4K Mixed 15.7 106% 42 MB/s	DQ Read 491 DQ Write 243 DQ Mixed 17.1 106% 250 MB/s
Poor: 84% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 159%
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 81GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 15525 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1521 (B1) Unknown 97 97 25 (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 74 54 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 147 (F1) Unknown 99 99 32154317330	79.3% Very good	Read 492 Write 157 Mixed 332 72% 327 MB/s	4K Read 33.2 4K Write 72.9 4K Mixed 26.2 122% 44.1 MB/s	DQ Read 371 DQ Write 235 DQ Mixed 98.3 128% 235 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 79.3% Great: 126%
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 31GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z32080RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 1682 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 268 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1640729608964 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 19 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 6 (AE) Unknown 100 100 32 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 58 40 257698037802 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1103812296961 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 728 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3618 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1771 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2321 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	47.9% Average	Read 490 Write 32.8 Mixed 237 55% 253 MB/s	4K Read 14.4 4K Write 84.8 4K Mixed 1.67 69% 33.6 MB/s	DQ Read 174 DQ Write 171 DQ Mixed 6.09 50% 117 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 47.9% Great: 78%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$50 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 644GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 232767312 (03) Spinup time 96 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3372 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 41635598 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9616 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1241 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 655370 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 50 454230043 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 53 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 29210 (C2) HDA temperature 27 50 60129542171 (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 -94506460371715 (F1) Unknown 100 253 26321345741 (F2) Unknown 100 253 916651001196	83.3% Excellent	Read 135 Write 154 Mixed 109 99% 133 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 5.38 4K Mixed 0.58 183% 2.14 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 108%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 805GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 145 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 71 69 9082 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10432 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 29988 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2585 (BF) G-sense error rate 252 252 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 50 219044184090 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 2 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 58 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 10605	68.4% Good	Read 118 Write 120 Mixed 110 87% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 2.14 4K Mixed 0.4 115% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 68.4% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1600 CL10 Series 2x8GB 4,816 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	61.1% Good	MC Read 21.7 MC Write 22.3 MC Mixed 18.4 59% 20.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.8 SC Write 22.6 SC Mixed 20.6 55% 19.3 GB/s	Latency 60.3 66% 60.3 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 61.1% Great: 62%

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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) $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