Asus MAXIMUS VII FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 92.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	80.7% 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	117% 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	29.7 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	Feb 15 '18 at 18:56
Run Duration	242 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing as expected (50^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)	92.7% Outstanding	Memory 95.3 1-Core 136 2-Core 254 91% 162 Pts	4-Core 485 8-Core 738 76% 612 Pts	64-Core 736 46% 736 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 92.7% 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: 390.77 Performing below potential (68^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.7% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 111 Parallax 101 84% 105 fps	MRender 93.6 Gravity 95.7 Splatting 85.6 74% 91.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Asus RAIDR Express PCIe 1,224 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 193GB 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 705 Write 430 Mixed 517 122% 551 MB/s	4K Read 32.6 4K Write 75.3 4K Mixed 23.3 119% 43.7 MB/s	DQ Read 229 DQ Write 356 DQ Mixed 15 89% 200 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% 184GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	117% Outstanding	Read 732 Write 542 Mixed 560 136% 611 MB/s	4K Read 57.4 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 23.5 176% 64.1 MB/s	DQ Read 59.6 DQ Write 121 DQ Mixed 26.5 38% 69.1 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 236%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 71GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3009 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 983 (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 63 46 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 58 (EB) Unknown 99 99 121 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6629431339	98.8% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 414 Mixed 422 100% 452 MB/s	4K Read 47.5 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 29.8 167% 61.7 MB/s	DQ Read 48.5 DQ Write 116 DQ Mixed 29.7 38% 64.8 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 98.8% Great: 134%
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 way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 55379308323011 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1589 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 488 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 35 47 55837655075 (C2) HDA temperature 35 47 55837655075 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2578 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1497 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1497 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1146	55.7% Above average	Read 371 Write 140 Mixed 157 49% 223 MB/s	4K Read 16.9 4K Write 98.2 4K Mixed 17 99% 44 MB/s	DQ Read 27.7 DQ Write 113 DQ Mixed 13.6 27% 51.4 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 55.7% Great: 87%
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 (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 199 177 7050 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1501 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1674 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 551 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 121 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5437 (C2) HDA temperature 116 109 36 (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	82% Excellent	Read 143 Write 142 Mixed 137 106% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 2.13 4K Mixed 0.2 90% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 82% 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 (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 45944384 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6259 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 4308771460 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9151 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1679 (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 67 55 86454960161 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 404 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 73 73 54700 (C2) HDA temperature 33 45 -140737488355295 (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 92320322030442 (F1) Unknown 100 253 14844844789 (F2) Unknown 100 253 14177607058	76.9% Very good	Read 140 Write 128 Mixed 124 98% 131 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.26 74% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 76.9% 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 5571617 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 73418170966424 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1607 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 608 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 35 47 55837655075 (C2) HDA temperature 35 47 55837655075 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 5571617 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 5571617 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 5571617 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 3363 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2963 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2963 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2305

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 @ 1618 MHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	63.6% Good	MC Read 22.6 MC Write 22.4 MC Mixed 19.2 61% 21.4 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 24 SC Mixed 21 60% 21 GB/s	Latency 56.1 71% 56.1 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 63.6% 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