Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 66% Battle cruiser	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 88.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	71.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	111% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	5.3 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170124
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 14 '18 at 03:21
Run Duration	104 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (72^nd 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 4.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.9% Excellent	Memory 94.8 1-Core 134 2-Core 268 92% 166 Pts	4-Core 447 8-Core 688 70% 568 Pts	64-Core 695 43% 695 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 88.9% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% MSI(1462 3170) CLim: 1625 MHz, MLim: 1987 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71.8% Very good	Lighting 92.1 Reflection 92.2 Parallax 82.9 75% 89.1 fps	MRender 87 Gravity 82 Splatting 73.7 66% 80.9 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 71.8% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 243GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5283 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1536 (B1) Unknown 95 95 86 (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 61 49 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 560 (F1) Unknown 99 99 57081839075	111% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 416 Mixed 395 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 37.8 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 39.5 168% 63.5 MB/s	DQ Read 365 DQ Write 271 DQ Mixed 101 134% 246 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 134%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 817GB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 124339872 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 4086 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 4321608878 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 12166 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2360 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 87 87 13 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 56 471400476 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1150 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 77 77 47287 (C2) HDA temperature 28 44 17179869212 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -136176233079219 (F1) Unknown 100 253 24955326670 (F2) Unknown 100 253 39737156926	94.6% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 157 Mixed 152 121% 161 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.32 102% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 94.6% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 47,852 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	56.9% Above average	MC Read 20.6 MC Write 20.1 MC Mixed 16.5 54% 19.1 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 21.5 SC Mixed 17.9 52% 18.3 GB/s	Latency 57.6 69% 57.6 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 56.9% Great: 62%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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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 $15	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