Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Battleship	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 90.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	84.7% 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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

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 (74^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-$175 188,918 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	90.7% Outstanding	Memory 94.9 1-Core 125 2-Core 262 92% 161 Pts	4-Core 509 8-Core 455 67% 482 Pts	64-Core 376 25% 376 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 90.7% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 174,527 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 855B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1515 MHz, MLim: 1800 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 461.09 Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	84.7% Excellent	Lighting 105 Reflection 122 Parallax 108 85% 112 fps	MRender 103 Gravity 105 Splatting 95.9 85% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 84.7% Great: 90%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$100 208,751 User benchmarks, average bench 198% 70GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 5,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 372 273 222 218 216 214 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd 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: 141% ↑ This bench: 132% Great: 233%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$100 175,511 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 104GB free Firmware: EXT0AB0Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 229 255 256 256 257 256 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd 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: 116%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,215,264 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 505GB free Firmware: CC47 SusWrite @10s intervals: 186 203 207 207 207 207 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd 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: 48% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 115%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$99 100,483 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 842GB free Firmware: CC41 SusWrite @10s intervals: 181 189 190 191 192 192 MB/s Performing 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: 49% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 110%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GB 8,996 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 2133 MHz clocked @ 2176 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^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: 34% ↑ This bench: 77.5% Great: 79%

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

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Desktop 88%

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Workstation 39%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 83%, 391,364 samples	3,682x
Core i5-4690KIntel $175Bench 80%, 188,918 samples	708x
Core i7-4790Intel $225Bench 77%, 214,926 samples	329x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $340Bench 51%, 656,857 samples	821x
GTX 1070Nvidia $330Bench 80%, 1,087,008 samples	450x
GTX 1080Nvidia $450Bench 105%, 788,376 samples	399x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $125Bench 110%, 620,644 samples	335x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 105%, 762,576 samples	331x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $110Bench 114%, 363,952 samples	254x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 60%, 35,390 samples	257x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 66%, 18,057 samples	228x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 79,684 samples	223x

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Value: 51% - Above average

Total price: $813

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-10600K $224	Nvidia RTX 3060-Ti $400	Crucial MX500 250GB $49
Intel Core i5-10400F $148	Nvidia RTX 3070 $500	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $78
Intel Core i7-10700K $315	Nvidia GTX 1660S (Super) $240	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $49

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $79	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $28	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $73	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $85	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $649	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16