Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 63% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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 95%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	76.1% 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	65.9% 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151028
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 15 '16 at 21:48
Run Duration	214 Seconds
Run User	PRT-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (77^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 4.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95% Outstanding	Memory 96.7 1-Core 134 2-Core 271 93% 167 Pts	4-Core 504 8-Core 718 77% 611 Pts	64-Core 726 45% 726 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 95% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Gigabyte(1458 366E) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7586 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	76.1% Very good	Lighting 106 Reflection 58.9 Parallax 68.9 87% 78.1 fps	MRender 83.7 Gravity 64.7 Splatting 59 55% 69.1 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 830 128GB-$109 37,250 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 72GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9333 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2922 (B1) Unknown 95 95 155 (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 71 54 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 42 (EB) Unknown 99 99 315 (F1) Unknown 99 99 17984722269	65.9% Good	Read 494 Write 321 Mixed 392 89% 402 MB/s	4K Read 21.7 4K Write 64.4 4K Mixed 13.5 84% 33.2 MB/s	DQ Read 23.4 DQ Write 70.1 DQ Mixed 57.3 41% 50.3 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 76%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$38 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 42383904 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1388 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 48629410 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5470 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1068 (B7) Unknown 98 98 2 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 95 95 5 (BE) vendor-specific 65 53 588513315 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 79 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 21413 (C2) HDA temperature 35 47 51539607587 (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 93007516798175 (F1) Unknown 100 253 23257199738 (F2) Unknown 100 253 149906241081	100% Outstanding	Read 194 Write 156 Mixed 167 130% 172 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.22 81% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$38 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 137148648 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1320 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 8670885 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3918 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 826 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 5 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 68 56 538181664 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 82 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 7613 (C2) HDA temperature 32 44 60129542176 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 3663607106188 (F1) Unknown 100 253 14187369328 (F2) Unknown 100 253 19248838295	98% Outstanding	Read 182 Write 160 Mixed 158 125% 167 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.22 78% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 98% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 222GB free Firmware: KC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 103 99 1444048 (03) Spinup time 100 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2609 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 99194728 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7734 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2176 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065688 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 53 538181664 (C2) HDA temperature 32 47 51539607584 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 24 24 1444048 (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 -123755187659021 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3666837669 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1545107699	62.4% Good	Read 113 Write 105 Mixed 112 83% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.06 4K Mixed 0.45 87% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 62.4% Great: 88%
Samsung HD200HJ 200GB 2,663 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 121GB free Firmware: KF100-06 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 4416 (04) Start/Stop count 81 81 19376 (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 9394 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6332 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 21278 (B8) Unknown 253 253 0 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 393216 (BC) Unknown 253 253 0 (BE) vendor-specific 148 100 772210718 (C2) HDA temperature 145 94 805765151 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 21278 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 22 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 5	48.1% Average	Read 78.8 Write 88.6 Mixed 78.2 62% 81.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.36 86% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 48.1% Great: 53%
Samsung HD200HJ 200GB 2,663 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 108GB free Firmware: KF100-06 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 4288 (04) Start/Stop count 82 82 18565 (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 11828 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6410 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 228698 (B8) Unknown 253 253 0 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BC) Unknown 253 253 0 (BE) vendor-specific 151 100 772210717 (C2) HDA temperature 148 100 772210718 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 228698 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 253 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 7	45.7% Average	Read 89.3 Write 69.9 Mixed 86.4 62% 81.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.42 91% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 45.7% Great: 53%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GB 1,409 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1867 MHz clocked @ 1904 MHz Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	71.4% Very good	MC Read 25.1 MC Write 26 MC Mixed 22 70% 24.4 GB/s	SC Read 19.4 SC Write 24.6 SC Mixed 23.1 64% 22.4 GB/s	Latency 51.5 78% 51.5 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 71.4% Great: 104%

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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	2,696x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	312x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	251x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	526x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	257x
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 $140Bench 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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $160	Nvidia RTX 4070 $515	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $29

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16