Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 96% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 82% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	135% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	9.5 GB free of 12 GB @ 2.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170124
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 23 '18 at 22:07
Run Duration	142 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	100%

PC Performing as expected (52^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	74.7% Very good	Memory 95.8 1-Core 88.7 2-Core 168 71% 117 Pts	4-Core 290 8-Core 529 49% 409 Pts	64-Core 650 40% 650 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 74.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	135% Outstanding	Lighting 192 Reflection 200 Parallax 202 157% 198 fps	MRender 127 Gravity 172 Splatting 132 117% 144 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 135% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 48GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 92 92 20563381 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 66649302512393 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 818 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 68 (B1) Unknown 0 0 6 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 20563381 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 20563381 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 20563381 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 12476 (EA) Unknown 0 0 10526 (F1) Unknown 0 0 10526 (F2) Unknown 0 0 13600		Read 255 53% 255 MB/s
Poor: 53% Great: 82%
WD Red 4TB (2013)-$86 55,507 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 3TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 194 172 7266 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1929 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4568 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 277 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 130 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5421 (C2) HDA temperature 114 107 38 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	74.6% Very good	Read 129 Write 131 Mixed 127 97% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.21 98% 1.09 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 100%
Seagate ST3500412AS 500GB 3,833 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 299GB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 214048743 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 80 80 20580 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 43 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 560384136 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 29894 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 92 92 8456 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 12885098519 (BD) vendor-specific 60 60 40 (BE) vendor-specific 65 55 622592035 (C2) HDA temperature 35 45 38654705699 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 43 22 214048743 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 198 215566 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -92560840156256 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2259795726 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3601720020	43.7% Average	Read 79.1 Write 73.7 Mixed 64.4 54% 72.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.07 4K Write 0.1 4K Mixed 0.05 11% 0.08 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 43.7% Great: 63%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F3 DDR3 2666 C11 3x4GB 9 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 3 of 4 slots used 12GB DIMM DDR3 2600 MHz clocked @ 2000 MHz Performing below potential (50^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	49.7% Average	MC Read 17.7 MC Write 19 MC Mixed 16.1 50% 17.6 GB/s	SC Read 7.3 SC Write 10.9 SC Mixed 10.3 27% 9.5 GB/s	Latency 54.5 73% 54.5 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 49.7% Great: 96%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	2,689x
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	526x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	255x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	246x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	198x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	174x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	126x

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 $290	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 $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16