Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	84.4% 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	132% 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	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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180418
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 15 '21 at 11:30
Run Duration	159 Seconds
Run User	DNK-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing above expectations (76^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 4.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.4% Outstanding	Memory 94.9 1-Core 121 2-Core 260 88% 158 Pts	4-Core 498 8-Core 490 66% 494 Pts	64-Core 445 28% 445 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 90.4% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 855B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1515 MHz, MLim: 1800 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 461.09 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	84.4% Excellent	Lighting 105 Reflection 122 Parallax 108 85% 112 fps	MRender 103 Gravity 105 Splatting 95.9 82% 101 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 70GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 372 273 222 218 216 214 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	132% Outstanding	Read 646 Write 548 Mixed 396 SusWrite 253 103% 461 MB/s	4K Read 47.1 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 50.6 194% 68.9 MB/s	DQ Read 769 DQ Write 640 DQ Mixed 623 489% 677 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 132% Great: 236%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 104GB free Firmware: EXT0AB0Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 229 255 256 256 257 256 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Read 445 Write 303 Mixed 369 SusWrite 252 77% 342 MB/s	4K Read 38.6 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 56.4 189% 68.2 MB/s	DQ Read 376 DQ Write 346 DQ Mixed 220 204% 314 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 118%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 505GB free Firmware: CC47 SusWrite @10s intervals: 186 203 207 207 207 207 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Read 169 Write 134 Mixed 83 SusWrite 203 108% 147 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 1 176% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 112%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$79 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 842GB free Firmware: CC41 SusWrite @10s intervals: 181 189 190 191 192 192 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	102% Outstanding	Read 165 Write 139 Mixed 28.3 SusWrite 189 94% 130 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 5.3 4K Mixed 1.9 355% 2.77 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 110%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GB 11,630 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 2133 MHz clocked @ 2176 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	77.5% Very good	MC Read 25.3 MC Write 30.2 MC Mixed 26.3 78% 27.3 GB/s	SC Read 20.7 SC Write 22.6 SC Mixed 25 65% 22.8 GB/s	Latency 57.5 70% 57.5 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 77.5% Great: 79%

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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	2,671x
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 $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	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: 61% - Good

Total price: $657

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	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