Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 80% Battleship	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 70% Battleship


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 a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	107% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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 (54%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150427
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 25 '18 at 03:51
Run Duration	153 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	54%

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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 i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	75.6% Very good	Memory 94 1-Core 116 2-Core 195 80% 135 Pts	4-Core 308 8-Core 641 56% 475 Pts	64-Core 641 40% 641 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 75.6% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6583) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.93 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Lighting 139 Reflection 155 Parallax 144 113% 146 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 138 Splatting 116 101% 124 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 3TB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 202213704 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 12163 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 4302364249 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11461 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 478 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 58 588578851 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 84 84 32122 (C2) HDA temperature 35 42 64424509475 (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 120302033961607 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8096277434 (F2) Unknown 100 253 23238858485	89.5% Excellent	Read 158 Write 154 Mixed 146 115% 153 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.71 4K Mixed 0.19 84% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 89.5% Great: 96%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2016)-$114 34,353 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2.5TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 64 0 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3982 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 10935159 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 39118562135829 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 101 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 60 555024417 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 3748 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 11183 (C2) HDA temperature 33 40 68719476769 (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 109869558399464 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2620405115 (F2) Unknown 100 253 653805766	85.8% Excellent	Read 153 Write 146 Mixed 136 109% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.26 86% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 85.8% Great: 105%
Toshiba HDWQ140 4TB 4,700 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2.5TB free (System drive) Firmware: FJ1M Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^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 7119 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 105 (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 91 91 3886 (0A) Spinup retry count 102 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 103 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 6478 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 13 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 107 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 244814315564 (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 200 200 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 91 91 3885 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 554 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	97.1% Outstanding	Read 166 Write 173 Mixed 161 125% 167 MB/s	4K Read 0.95 4K Write 2.63 4K Mixed 0.38 130% 1.32 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 97.1% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 39820536 (03) Spinup time 95 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11431 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 57 49 55841734041 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11647 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 537 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 12885098499 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 51 638910502 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 28963 (C2) HDA temperature 38 49 68719476774 (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 -54782307859094 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6768015596 (F2) Unknown 100 253 8685739485	91.6% Outstanding	Read 172 Write 148 Mixed 150 118% 156 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.21 80% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 91.6% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GB 3,407 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	66.9% Good	MC Read 24.5 MC Write 25.5 MC Mixed 21.5 68% 23.8 GB/s	SC Read 13.2 SC Write 22 SC Mixed 16.6 49% 17.3 GB/s	Latency 59.9 67% 59.9 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 66.9% Great: 71%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

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 $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 $300	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