Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 48% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (37th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 63 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 70.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	80.1% 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	121% 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.

Very high background CPU (88%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	15.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170124
Uptime	1.5 Days
Run Date	Aug 01 '20 at 08:42
Run Duration	147 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	88%

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PC Performing below expectations (37^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	70.4% Very good	Memory 82.7 1-Core 101 2-Core 180 71% 121 Pts	4-Core 314 8-Core 485 49% 400 Pts	64-Core 472 29% 472 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 70.4% 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: 445.87 Performing below potential (58^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.1% Excellent	Lighting 99.5 Reflection 110 Parallax 104 81% 104 fps	MRender 94.1 Gravity 94.6 Splatting 97.2 78% 95.3 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 512GB 18,578 User benchmarks, average bench 191% 34GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. SusWrite @10s intervals: 305 254 263 270 258 264 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile)	121% Outstanding	Read 1,060 Write 323 Mixed 356 SusWrite 269 110% 502 MB/s	4K Read 31.9 4K Write 72.6 4K Mixed 39.3 137% 47.9 MB/s	DQ Read 472 DQ Write 431 DQ Mixed 302 267% 401 MB/s
Poor: 82% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 332%
Intel Raid 1 Volume 4TB 2,430 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 404GB free Firmware: 1.0. SusWrite @10s intervals: 89 89 91 91 91 91 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	59.2% Above average	Read 116 Write 102 Mixed 58.2 SusWrite 90.3 67% 91.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 1 195% 1.47 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 59.2% Great: 134%
Intel Raid 1 Volume 6TB 810 User benchmarks, average bench 97% 3TB free Firmware: 1.0. SusWrite @10s intervals: 200 194 200 201 195 200 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	119% Outstanding	Read 215 Write 202 Mixed 72.5 SusWrite 198 125% 172 MB/s	4K Read 2.3 4K Write 4.8 4K Mixed 1.1 307% 2.73 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 119% 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 expectations (27^th percentile)	53.6% Above average	MC Read 17.7 MC Write 20.8 MC Mixed 18 54% 18.8 GB/s	SC Read 11.9 SC Write 18.3 SC Mixed 14.9 43% 15 GB/s	Latency 75.6 53% 75.6 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 53.6% Great: 63%

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

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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	2,668x
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	253x
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 $129Bench 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