Asus MAXIMUS VII FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 89.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	87.8% 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	246% 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

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	29.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151028
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 13 '18 at 07:57
Run Duration	294 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (73^rd 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 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.4% Excellent	Memory 95.3 1-Core 142 2-Core 277 95% 172 Pts	4-Core 449 8-Core 739 73% 594 Pts	64-Core 740 46% 740 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 89.4% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4999) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1655 MHz, MLim: 1804 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	87.8% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 124 Parallax 122 91% 119 fps	MRender 101 Gravity 106 Splatting 95.6 82% 101 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Asus RAIDR Express PCIe 1,224 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 210GB free Firmware: MV.R00-0 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value	103% Outstanding	Read 715 Write 419 Mixed 510 121% 548 MB/s	4K Read 32.6 4K Write 75.3 4K Mixed 23 119% 43.6 MB/s	DQ Read 247 DQ Write 354 DQ Mixed 85.8 125% 229 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 101%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 193GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	246% Outstanding	Read 2,223 Write 1,248 Mixed 1,191 342% 1,554 MB/s	4K Read 58.1 4K Write 137 4K Mixed 42.4 215% 79.2 MB/s	DQ Read 486 DQ Write 312 DQ Mixed 26.8 120% 275 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 246% Great: 236%
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 26GB free Firmware: 507KC4 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4687117 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 -79130477453293 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1460 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 423 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 37 47 55837655077 (C2) HDA temperature 37 47 55837655077 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4687117 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4687117 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4687117 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2464 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1452 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1452 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1095	77.8% Very good	Read 524 Write 164 Mixed 186 63% 291 MB/s	4K Read 32.5 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 21 132% 52.8 MB/s	DQ Read 211 DQ Write 173 DQ Mixed 9.04 57% 131 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 87%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$76 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 5GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2826 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 807 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (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 59 46 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 93 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6422834274	119% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 409 Mixed 421 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 47 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 49.7 194% 69.2 MB/s	DQ Read 365 DQ Write 287 DQ Mixed 29.4 103% 227 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 134%
WD Blue 4TB (2015)-$85 124,615 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 3.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 209 177 6525 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1312 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1492 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 426 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 73 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4664 (C2) HDA temperature 115 109 37 (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	86.2% Excellent	Read 148 Write 153 Mixed 138 110% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 2.43 4K Mixed 0.2 102% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 101%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$37 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 159GB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 210159080 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 6060 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 4308703620 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 8970 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1538 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 31 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 55 86455091232 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 341 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 74 74 53966 (C2) HDA temperature 32 45 -140737488355296 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 8650 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 29029683956471 (F1) Unknown 100 253 14796001397 (F2) Unknown 100 253 14123815376	77.8% Very good	Read 139 Write 133 Mixed 124 99% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.25 75% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 114%
Kingston SH103S3120G 240GB 107GB free Firmware: 507KC4 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 102 6066547 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 -120946279046937 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1479 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 546 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 36 47 55837655076 (C2) HDA temperature 36 47 55837655076 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 6066547 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 6066547 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 6066547 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 3205 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2858 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2858 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2213

PNY USB 3.0 FD 256GB 365 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 28GB free, PID fa05 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	17.1% Very poor	Read 42.9 Write 42.6 Mixed 9.37 37% 31.6 MB/s	4K Read 3.91 4K Write 0.2 4K Mixed 0.16 27% 1.42 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 17.1% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Sniper DDR3 1600 C9 4x8GB 785 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1603 MHz Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	62.5% Good	MC Read 22 MC Write 22.1 MC Mixed 18.8 60% 21 GB/s	SC Read 17.3 SC Write 23.8 SC Mixed 21.2 59% 20.8 GB/s	Latency 56.2 71% 56.2 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 62.5% Great: 92%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII FORMULA - $284

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	505x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	36x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	27x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	61x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	52x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	48x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	25x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	23x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	19x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	29x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	24x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 74%, 7,519 samples	23x

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Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $908

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $44

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $28	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16