Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 91.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	81.7% 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	97.2% 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	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	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170124
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 24 '17 at 13:33
Run Duration	132 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing above expectations (74^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 (100^th percentile)	91.2% Outstanding	Memory 96.8 1-Core 126 2-Core 247 89% 157 Pts	4-Core 462 8-Core 681 71% 571 Pts	64-Core 691 43% 691 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 91.2% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing below potential (74^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.7% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 112 Parallax 112 84% 109 fps	MRender 94.9 Gravity 97.8 Splatting 90 77% 94.2 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 81.7% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung SM951 AHCI PCIe M.2 256GB-$223 7,621 User benchmarks, average bench 175% 216GB free Firmware: BXW2500Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1276 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 796 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 97 97 68 (AE) Unknown 99 99 27 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 863 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 55 36 45 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 17520 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7789 (F2) Unknown 99 99 7301	151% Outstanding	Read 778 Write 699 Mixed 753 166% 743 MB/s	4K Read 45.5 4K Write 122 4K Mixed 51.4 200% 73.1 MB/s	DQ Read 390 DQ Write 333 DQ Mixed 183 186% 302 MB/s
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 151% Great: 220%
Adata SX900 240GB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 97% 85GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.9E Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^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 0 (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 100 100 5118 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1028 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 285 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 187 187 4307681352 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 2048 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 74 (C2) HDA temperature 71 71 124555755549 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 98 98 2 (E9) Unknown 100 100 91112482816 (EA) Unknown 100 100 175913660032 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 20775652114 (F2) Unknown 100 100 27335454138	97.2% Outstanding	Read 505 Write 441 Mixed 455 104% 467 MB/s	4K Read 27.6 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 24.2 130% 53.3 MB/s	DQ Read 243 DQ Write 288 DQ Mixed 26.4 86% 186 MB/s
Poor: 95% ↑ This bench: 97.2% Great: 97%
Hitachi HDS5C3030ALA630 5TB 1.5TB free Firmware: FP2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 8825 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 658 (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 97 97 1267 (0A) Spinup retry count 113 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 651 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 24 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 42 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 667 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 197569347613 (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 97 97 1247 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 215 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	92.8% Outstanding	Read 159 Write 163 Mixed 142 116% 155 MB/s	4K Read 3.74 4K Write 2.12 4K Mixed 0.31 229% 2.06 MB/s

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 2133 C9 2x8GB 3,312 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 2133 MHz clocked @ 2176 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	81.1% Excellent	MC Read 29.4 MC Write 29.9 MC Mixed 25.8 81% 28.4 GB/s	SC Read 20.4 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 26.5 68% 23.7 GB/s	Latency 50.9 78% 50.9 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 81.1% Great: 81%

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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	2,671x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	311x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	250x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	525x
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	183x
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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $124	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	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