Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	47.6% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB 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.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	10.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140716
Uptime	7.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 29 '16 at 00:24
Run Duration	190 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	85.3% Excellent	Memory 95.5 1-Core 126 2-Core 249 89% 157 Pts	4-Core 424 8-Core 487 60% 456 Pts	64-Core 484 30% 484 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 780-Ti-$410 30,815 User benchmarks, average bench 53% Nvidia(10DE 1051) 3GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6472 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 47% Great: 59%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ VERTEX4 500GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 108% 310GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 444 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 151 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 60 54 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 2 (F1) Unknown 99 99 587573295	136% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 494 Mixed 508 113% 505 MB/s	4K Read 48.1 4K Write 130 4K Mixed 63 223% 80.5 MB/s	DQ Read 378 DQ Write 338 DQ Mixed 143 166% 286 MB/s
Poor: 91% ↑ This bench: 136% Great: 136%
Corsair Force 3 120GB-$109 22,358 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 28GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.3.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 88 88 13846399 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 -32134945304072 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1922 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 175 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (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 13846399 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 13846399 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 13846399 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4278 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3877 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3877 (F2) Unknown 0 0 6500	47.6% Average	Read 187 Write 98.9 Mixed 108 29% 131 MB/s	4K Read 19.1 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 13.2 104% 47.1 MB/s	DQ Read 93.3 DQ Write 101 DQ Mixed 34 43% 76 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 47.6% Great: 61%
OCZ Vertex 4 128GB-$215 19,372 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 12GB free Firmware: 1.4RC Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 6 0 6 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3557 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1716 (E8) Unknown 100 100 3617551562 (E9) Unknown 100 0 100	73.4% Very good	Read 310 Write 136 Mixed 183 46% 210 MB/s	4K Read 34.2 4K Write 121 4K Mixed 23.4 146% 59.7 MB/s	DQ Read 330 DQ Write 130 DQ Mixed 81.4 99% 180 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 73.4% Great: 104%
WD WD2001FASS-00U0B0 2TB 6,005 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.00101 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 12 (03) Spinup time 70 65 13516 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12593 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6730 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 91 91 9387 (C0) Power-off retract count 192 192 6310 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 159 159 125333 (C2) HDA temperature 116 83 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 6	79% Very good	Read 140 Write 135 Mixed 130 101% 135 MB/s	4K Read 0.85 4K Write 3.14 4K Mixed 0.52 152% 1.51 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 79% Great: 83%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F3 DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 222 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	63.7% Good	MC Read 21.7 MC Write 23 MC Mixed 20 62% 21.6 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 22.8 SC Mixed 20.8 58% 20.3 GB/s	Latency 55.5 72% 55.5 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 63.7% Great: 62%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	2,674x
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	525x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	254x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	246x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	197x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	173x
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	102x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $638

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $131	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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