Asus MAXIMUS VII GENE

Performance Results


Gaming 147% UFO	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 123% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 99.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	149% 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	62.1% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (37%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII GENE (all builds)
Memory	14 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20151028
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jan 15 '18 at 03:28
Run Duration	171 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	37%

PC Performing as expected (48^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5775C-$183 2,527 User benchmarks, average bench 85% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	99.1% Outstanding	Memory 101 1-Core 141 2-Core 271 96% 171 Pts	4-Core 527 8-Core 746 80% 637 Pts	64-Core 746 46% 746 Pts
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 99.1% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3604) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 3102 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	149% Outstanding	Lighting 215 Reflection 228 Parallax 229 175% 224 fps	MRender 145 Gravity 207 Splatting 140 132% 164 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 149% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 36GB free Firmware: EXT0CB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 2 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 23736 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1315 (B1) Unknown 96 96 37 (B3) Unknown 99 99 2 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 99 99 2 (BB) vendor-specific 99 99 1716 (BE) vendor-specific 63 49 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 199 199 1716 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 86 86 13618 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1026 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7156360178	79.6% Very good	Read 502 Write 354 Mixed 246 81% 367 MB/s	4K Read 44.7 4K Write 77.8 4K Mixed 2.46 112% 41.7 MB/s	DQ Read 110 DQ Write 242 DQ Mixed 16.4 58% 123 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 79.6% Great: 108%
Intel 530 Series 120GB-$79 15,015 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 8GB free Firmware: DC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -77429670401212 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3245 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 653 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 37 45 42952622117 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 653 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 20348 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 66 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 89 89 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 20348 (F2) Unknown 100 100 58039 (F9) Unknown 100 100 39554	62.7% Good	Read 478 Write 114 Mixed 158 54% 250 MB/s	4K Read 30 4K Write 86.5 4K Mixed 13.4 108% 43.3 MB/s	DQ Read 162 DQ Write 91.3 DQ Mixed 38.7 52% 97.4 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 62.7% Great: 79%
Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB-$70 27,495 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 8GB free (System drive) Firmware: 526ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 30329601 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 87677462410990 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3348 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 3618 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 29 81 1009322623005 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 30329601 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 30329601 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 30329601 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 20822 (EA) Unknown 0 0 12110 (F1) Unknown 0 0 12110 (F2) Unknown 0 0 44728	62.1% Good	Read 452 Write 144 Mixed 133 53% 243 MB/s	4K Read 23.4 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 19.6 117% 49.7 MB/s	DQ Read 18.9 DQ Write 27.2 DQ Mixed 18 15% 21.4 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 62.1% Great: 94%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 108GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 167 6391 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2305 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 21734 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2268 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1836 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 468 (C2) HDA temperature 109 102 41 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	80.8% Excellent	Read 141 Write 140 Mixed 127 102% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 2.89 4K Mixed 0.24 98% 1.19 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F3 DDR3 2933 C12 2x8GB 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 2133 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	110% Outstanding	MC Read 50.9 MC Write 32.7 MC Mixed 34.8 113% 39.5 GB/s	SC Read 18.3 SC Write 23.8 SC Mixed 26.7 66% 22.9 GB/s	Latency 30.4 132% 30.4 ns

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Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII GENE - $239

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	245x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	59x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	56x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	55x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	38x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	26x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	20x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	16x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	15x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	18x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	15x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	14x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $896

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $15	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) $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