Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 83.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	88.3% 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	58% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

High background CPU (22%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170124
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 16 '19 at 02:09
Run Duration	124 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	22%

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PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	83.8% Excellent	Memory 89.8 1-Core 111 2-Core 222 80% 141 Pts	4-Core 450 8-Core 448 60% 449 Pts	64-Core 431 27% 431 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 83.8% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2060-$324 645,160 User benchmarks, average bench 90% EVGA(3842 2063) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 430.64 Performing below potential (43^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	88.3% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 110 Parallax 102 92% 109 fps	MRender 131 Gravity 98.2 Splatting 77.2 81% 102 fps
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 88.3% Great: 97%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston A400 120GB-$29 166,392 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 76GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFK71E0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 118 58 51 43 51 51 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	58% Above average	Read 338 Write 276 Mixed 248 SusWrite 61.8 51% 231 MB/s	4K Read 23.5 4K Write 80.2 4K Mixed 23.3 108% 42.3 MB/s	DQ Read 158 DQ Write 220 DQ Mixed 122 111% 167 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 58% Great: 85%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 866GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 160 160 161 160 161 162 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	95.9% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 163 Mixed 100 SusWrite 161 110% 149 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 3.2 4K Mixed 1.1 232% 1.83 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR3-1600 CL11 8GB 2x8GB 984 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	60.4% Good	MC Read 21.6 MC Write 22.4 MC Mixed 18.4 59% 20.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.2 SC Write 20.6 SC Mixed 20.3 54% 19 GB/s	Latency 67.5 59% 67.5 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 60.4% Great: 61%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	2,669x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	310x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	250x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	524x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	254x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	246x

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 $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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