Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 85.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	97.3% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	28.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1024 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140716
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 14 '17 at 15:15
Run Duration	169 Seconds
Run User	ISL-User
Background CPU	29%

PC Performing as expected (60^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 way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	85.5% Excellent	Memory 94.9 1-Core 130 2-Core 241 88% 155 Pts	4-Core 411 8-Core 665 66% 538 Pts	64-Core 661 41% 661 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 85.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 429GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4708 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 97 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 69 63 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 14 (F1) Unknown 99 99 831044639	105% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 412 Mixed 422 100% 447 MB/s	4K Read 42.4 4K Write 81.4 4K Mixed 44.1 164% 56 MB/s	DQ Read 240 DQ Write 193 DQ Mixed 104 108% 179 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 134%
Asus RAIDR Express PCIe 1,224 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 190GB free Firmware: MV.R00-0 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value	95.9% Outstanding	Read 675 Write 410 Mixed 488 116% 524 MB/s	4K Read 31.1 4K Write 65.4 4K Mixed 21.2 109% 39.3 MB/s	DQ Read 244 DQ Write 282 DQ Mixed 74.6 108% 200 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 101%
Plextor M6e PCIe M.2 128GB-$190 585 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 86GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.03 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2211 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 144 (B1) Unknown 100 100 180167 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 74 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 547986 (F2) Unknown 100 100 174991	97.3% Outstanding	Read 657 Write 322 Mixed 431 104% 470 MB/s	4K Read 31.2 4K Write 83.6 4K Mixed 32.5 133% 49.1 MB/s	DQ Read 250 DQ Write 241 DQ Mixed 78.1 105% 190 MB/s
Poor: 82% ↑ This bench: 97.3% Great: 116%
WD Green 6TB (2014)-$223 4,204 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 199 195 9025 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 769 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7517 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 94 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 30 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2976 (C2) HDA temperature 124 107 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	80.4% Excellent	Read 148 Write 132 Mixed 123 101% 134 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 2.26 4K Mixed 0.23 88% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 98%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 492GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8666 (04) Start/Stop count 75 75 25577 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 40 40 44327 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1294 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 389 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 192 192 25187 (C2) HDA temperature 121 103 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	67.6% Good	Read 122 Write 113 Mixed 108 86% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 0.48 127% 1.19 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 1866 C9 4x8GB 2,133 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	63.4% Good	MC Read 21.6 MC Write 23.6 MC Mixed 20.1 62% 21.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 22.3 SC Mixed 18.7 55% 19.2 GB/s	Latency 57.3 70% 57.3 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 86%

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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	2,683x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	312x
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 $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	197x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	173x
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	102x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $642

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $29	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16