Asus MAXIMUS VII FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 26% Raft	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 23% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 96.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	20.4% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	217% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). 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, 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	29.8 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 26 '18 at 16:22
Run Duration	240 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing above expectations (67^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 above expectations (100^th percentile)	96.1% Outstanding	Memory 95.5 1-Core 138 2-Core 274 94% 169 Pts	4-Core 520 8-Core 744 79% 632 Pts	64-Core 741 46% 741 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 96.1% 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: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.65 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	20.4% Poor	Lighting 24.2 Reflection 15 Parallax 20.6 20% 19.9 fps	MRender 12 Gravity 35.6 Splatting 29.3 22% 25.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 20.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Asus RAIDR Express PCIe 1,224 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 191GB free Firmware: MV.R00-0 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value	102% Outstanding	Read 708 Write 423 Mixed 502 120% 544 MB/s	4K Read 32.7 4K Write 77 4K Mixed 24.2 121% 44.6 MB/s	DQ Read 181 DQ Write 365 DQ Mixed 85.6 118% 210 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 101%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 183GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	217% Outstanding	Read 1,927 Write 1,182 Mixed 1,160 314% 1,423 MB/s	4K Read 51.3 4K Write 125 4K Mixed 26.6 178% 67.8 MB/s	DQ Read 436 DQ Write 312 DQ Mixed 168 181% 305 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 217% 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 as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4495837 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 -119975616438147 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1547 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 473 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 31 47 55837655071 (C2) HDA temperature 31 47 55837655071 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4495837 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4495837 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4495837 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2514 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1469 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1469 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1124	75.3% Very good	Read 522 Write 177 Mixed 193 65% 297 MB/s	4K Read 32.7 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 13.3 126% 53.1 MB/s	DQ Read 161 DQ Write 191 DQ Mixed 36.8 66% 130 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 75.3% Great: 87%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 5GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2939 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 939 (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 64 46 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 58 (EB) Unknown 99 99 117 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6509437559	108% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 413 Mixed 418 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 46.6 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 47.7 190% 68 MB/s	DQ Read 48.2 DQ Write 120 DQ Mixed 120 81% 96.1 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 108% 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 above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 211 177 6433 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1458 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1604 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 515 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 115 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5238 (C2) HDA temperature 120 109 32 (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	88.7% Excellent	Read 166 Write 143 Mixed 137 112% 149 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 2.48 4K Mixed 0.26 106% 1.16 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 101%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$38 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 159GB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 106 99 11057224 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6215 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 4308737015 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9082 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1640 (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 70 55 86404628510 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 396 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 73 73 54522 (C2) HDA temperature 30 45 -140737488355298 (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 -86247238268115 (F1) Unknown 100 253 14815395701 (F2) Unknown 100 253 14154194158	78.3% Very good	Read 142 Write 131 Mixed 127 100% 133 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.26 71% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 114%
Kingston SH103S3120G 240GB 60GB 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 5421782 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 109487306318162 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1565 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 594 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 31 47 55837655071 (C2) HDA temperature 31 47 55837655071 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 5421782 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 5421782 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 5421782 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 3302 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2928 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2928 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2276

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 @ 1634 MHz Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	63% Good	MC Read 22.1 MC Write 22.4 MC Mixed 19 60% 21.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.6 SC Write 24 SC Mixed 20.7 59% 20.8 GB/s	Latency 55.4 72% 55.4 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 63% Great: 92%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII FORMULA - $284

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	503x
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	47x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 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
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 74%, 7,519 samples	23x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	23x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	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