Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 50% Yacht	Desktop 63% Destroyer	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (26th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 74 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 56%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	89.1% 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	71.2% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (71%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	6.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit farger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141111
Uptime	4.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 25 '18 at 03:30
Run Duration	237 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	71%

PC Performing below expectations (26^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	56% Above average	Memory 51.7 1-Core 95 2-Core 170 58% 105 Pts	4-Core 324 8-Core 503 51% 413 Pts	64-Core 663 41% 663 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 56% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Nvidia(10DE 120F) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2852 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.24 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	89.1% Excellent	Lighting 99.5 Reflection 141 Parallax 198 81% 146 fps	MRender 124 Gravity 156 Splatting 109 105% 130 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 89.1% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX100 512GB-$200 31,545 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 348GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^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 10654 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1503 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 84 84 495 (AE) Unknown 100 100 126 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4403 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 66 57 184684576802 (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 2 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 84 84 16 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 51274256350 (F7) Unknown 100 100 1623711139 (F8) Unknown 100 100 1991559164	71.2% Very good	Read 365 Write 361 Mixed 357 81% 361 MB/s	4K Read 23.6 4K Write 59.7 4K Mixed 20.9 94% 34.8 MB/s	DQ Read 126 DQ Write 156 DQ Mixed 40.5 58% 107 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 71.2% Great: 107%
WD Blue 2.5" 500GB (2009)-$50 31,419 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 446GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 183 152 1850 (04) Start/Stop count 65 65 35833 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3297 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2856 (BF) G-sense error rate 1 1 1755 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 100 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 72 72 386873 (C2) HDA temperature 118 94 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	37.1% Below average	Read 61.9 Write 67 Mixed 63.8 48% 64.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.37 84% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 37.1% Great: 43%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$80 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 268GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 173 6116 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12307 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 15302 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1788 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 164 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 12142 (C2) HDA temperature 114 104 36 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	48.8% Average	Read 84.1 Write 85.8 Mixed 84.1 64% 84.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.99 4K Mixed 0.21 76% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 48.8% Great: 88%
WD Red 4TB (2013)-$110 55,507 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 263GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 170 8058 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1851 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10547 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1601 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 226 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 120 120 242104 (C2) HDA temperature 115 106 37 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	67.5% Good	Read 137 Write 97.8 Mixed 93.5 82% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.27 4K Write 1.85 4K Mixed 0.14 62% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 100%
Samsung Spinpoint T166 500GB-$40 43,024 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 104GB free Firmware: CR100-05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 7232 (04) Start/Stop count 82 82 18397 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 15102 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2561 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 655360 (BE) vendor-specific 63 43 37 (C2) HDA temperature 127 67 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 2014679 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 1	32.2% Below average	Read 55 Write 56.9 Mixed 51.8 41% 54.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.14 4K Mixed 0.28 75% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 32.2% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GB 24,592 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 2400 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	23% Poor	MC Read 8.2 MC Write 8.4 MC Mixed 7.6 23% 8.07 GB/s	SC Read 5.2 SC Write 7.2 SC Mixed 5.5 17% 5.97 GB/s	Latency 155 26% 155 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 23% Great: 88%

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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	2,691x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	312x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	250x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	526x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	255x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	246x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	198x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	174x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	126x

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	102x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $642

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16