Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 82.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	80.5% 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	145% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	16.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170124
Uptime	1.6 Days
Run Date	Dec 02 '19 at 23:34
Run Duration	136 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

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PC Performing as expected (50^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 above expectations (70^th percentile)	82.1% Excellent	Memory 90.4 1-Core 129 2-Core 255 88% 158 Pts	4-Core 398 8-Core 590 62% 494 Pts	64-Core 642 40% 642 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 82.1% 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 6173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 441.12 Performing below potential (62^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.5% Excellent	Lighting 98.9 Reflection 112 Parallax 107 81% 106 fps	MRender 96.5 Gravity 94.5 Splatting 101 80% 97.5 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 512GB 18,578 User benchmarks, average bench 191% 134GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. SusWrite @10s intervals: 463 518 565 566 575 566 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)	145% Outstanding	Read 1,015 Write 816 Mixed 532 SusWrite 542 162% 726 MB/s	4K Read 32.4 4K Write 89.8 4K Mixed 45.7 155% 56 MB/s	DQ Read 466 DQ Write 586 DQ Mixed 344 310% 465 MB/s
Poor: 82% ↑ This bench: 145% Great: 332%
Intel Raid 1 Volume 4TB 2,430 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 418GB free Firmware: 1.0. SusWrite @10s intervals: 90 90 90 92 92 91 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	60.6% Good	Read 120 Write 99 Mixed 55.3 SusWrite 91 67% 91.2 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 1.4 248% 1.67 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 60.6% Great: 134%
Intel Raid 1 Volume 6TB 810 User benchmarks, average bench 97% 3.5TB free Firmware: 1.0. SusWrite @10s intervals: 206 209 211 208 212 211 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	123% Outstanding	Read 217 Write 210 Mixed 60.5 SusWrite 210 126% 174 MB/s	4K Read 1.6 4K Write 4.9 4K Mixed 1.1 280% 2.53 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 123% Great: 164%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 4x8GB 8,984 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (24^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	52.6% Above average	MC Read 18.1 MC Write 19.6 MC Mixed 16.6 52% 18.1 GB/s	SC Read 11.9 SC Write 17.6 SC Mixed 16.9 44% 15.5 GB/s	Latency 66.7 60% 66.7 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 52.6% Great: 63%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Typical MAXIMUS VII HERO Builds (Compare 3,733 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

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) $35	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