Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 62% Destroyer	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 50% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 91.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	62.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	93.4% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140716
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Jan 16 '18 at 14:06
Run Duration	325 Seconds
Run User	RUS-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4670K-$62 128,482 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.8% Outstanding	Memory 96 1-Core 122 2-Core 254 88% 157 Pts	4-Core 506 8-Core 508 68% 507 Pts	64-Core 510 32% 510 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 91.8% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Nvidia(10DE 11D7) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	62.9% Good	Lighting 80 Reflection 79.3 Parallax 69.6 65% 76.3 fps	MRender 72.1 Gravity 72.4 Splatting 70.4 58% 71.6 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 62.9% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Plextor M6S 256GB-$166 1,660 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 35GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.03 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st 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 2275 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1551 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 407686 (AE) Unknown 100 100 97 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 407686 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1472 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 97 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 27529 (F1) Unknown 100 100 440465 (F2) Unknown 100 100 462052	93.4% Outstanding	Read 469 Write 381 Mixed 356 89% 402 MB/s	4K Read 30.4 4K Write 67.5 4K Mixed 34.9 126% 44.3 MB/s	DQ Read 318 DQ Write 241 DQ Mixed 78.6 113% 212 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 93.4% Great: 104%
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 26GB free Firmware: 0C3FD6SD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st 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 4551 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 432 (64) Unknown 100 100 1974336 (65) Unknown 100 100 516864 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 44 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 98 98 604 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1301 (B7) Unknown 99 99 12 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 34 100 201864511522 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 98 98 2 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3665 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2739 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3312 (F2) Unknown 100 100 5070 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0	61.9% Good	Read 448 Write 232 Mixed 129 59% 269 MB/s	4K Read 27.8 4K Write 43.4 4K Mixed 11.6 80% 27.6 MB/s	DQ Read 176 DQ Write 132 DQ Mixed 29.2 56% 112 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 61.9% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 66GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 4251 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2473 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 13197203076 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 21954 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2451 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 50 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 35 6241159479330 (C2) HDA temperature 34 65 64424509474 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 33 13 4251 (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 132980777447591 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4001394173 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1389804725	44.3% Average	Read 75.3 Write 79.1 Mixed 27.6 44% 60.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.44 95% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 44.3% Great: 68%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$35 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 50GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 139 134 4050 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2107 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 21266 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1651 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 112 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1994 (C2) HDA temperature 105 92 38 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	51.8% Above average	Read 78.1 Write 102 Mixed 18.1 48% 66.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.92 4K Mixed 0.43 106% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 51.8% Great: 69%
USB FLASH DRIVE 4GB 9 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 4GB free, PID null Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	5.55% Terrible	Read 19.7 Write 6.64 Mixed 3.76 10% 10.1 MB/s	4K Read 5.17 4K Write 0.006 4K Mixed 0.006 20% 1.73 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 5.55% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GB 6,948 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2200 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	83.3% Excellent	MC Read 30.3 MC Write 31.4 MC Mixed 27.2 85% 29.6 GB/s	SC Read 21.2 SC Write 23 SC Mixed 25.2 66% 23.1 GB/s	Latency 54 74% 54 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 71%

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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	2,666x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	309x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	250x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	523x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	253x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	245x

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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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