Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 87.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	82.5% 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	86.4% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	25.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150326
Uptime	2.3 Days
Run Date	May 17 '18 at 02:23
Run Duration	236 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	12%

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PC Performing above expectations (61^st 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 above expectations (96^th percentile)	87.1% Excellent	Memory 90.7 1-Core 131 2-Core 262 90% 161 Pts	4-Core 450 8-Core 675 70% 562 Pts	64-Core 670 41% 670 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 87.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6171) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.5% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 113 Parallax 98.1 84% 105 fps	MRender 98.3 Gravity 95.2 Splatting 100 80% 97.9 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 83GB free Firmware: EXT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7282 (0C) Power cycle count 90 90 9657 (B1) Unknown 98 98 13 (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 66 61 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 9508 (F1) Unknown 99 99 234520792	54.1% Above average	Read 298 Write 84.3 Mixed 72.7 33% 152 MB/s	4K Read 38.4 4K Write 51.7 4K Mixed 15.6 106% 35.2 MB/s	DQ Read 207 DQ Write 94 DQ Mixed 28.9 54% 110 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 54.1% Great: 108%
Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB-$70 27,495 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 23GB free (System drive) Firmware: 501ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 108 17706405 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 121762322863879 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1786 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 326 (B1) Unknown 0 0 6 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 27 81 8595243035 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 17706405 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 17706405 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 17706405 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 32094 (EA) Unknown 0 0 33347 (F1) Unknown 0 0 33347 (F2) Unknown 0 0 38072	86.4% Excellent	Read 497 Write 248 Mixed 318 78% 354 MB/s	4K Read 32.6 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 20.8 137% 55.9 MB/s	DQ Read 290 DQ Write 240 DQ Mixed 77.7 109% 203 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 94%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 579GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 214674065 (03) Spinup time 94 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6690 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 8698121358 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 24351 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2532 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 95 17180131935 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 69 60 538247199 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 21474836511 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 39 17 214674065 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 9 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 131112466675567 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2761380464 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1807373864	59.7% Above average	Read 107 Write 101 Mixed 100 77% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 1.28 4K Mixed 0.37 101% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 59.7% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GB 2,445 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (48^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	49.7% Average	MC Read 17.5 MC Write 18.3 MC Mixed 14.4 48% 16.7 GB/s	SC Read 12.8 SC Write 17.1 SC Mixed 17.2 45% 15.7 GB/s	Latency 66.2 60% 66.2 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 49.7% Great: 85%

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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	2,671x
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 $94Bench 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: 62% - Good

Total price: $642

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 $177	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