Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 80.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	90.4% 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	116% 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	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.

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Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	11.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160309
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 11 '17 at 11:08
Run Duration	167 Seconds
Run User	AUT-User
Background CPU	44%

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PC Performing as expected (53^rd 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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	80.6% Excellent	Memory 90.6 1-Core 124 2-Core 232 84% 149 Pts	4-Core 386 8-Core 522 58% 454 Pts	64-Core 680 42% 680 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 80.6% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3302) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.4% Outstanding	Lighting 116 Reflection 116 Parallax 99.4 94% 110 fps	MRender 97.9 Gravity 102 Splatting 102 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Patriot Hellfire NVMe PCIe M.2 240GB-$233 2,120 User benchmarks, average bench 142% 57GB free (System drive) Firmware: E7FM02.0 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	116% Outstanding	Read 745 Write 727 Mixed 769 167% 747 MB/s	4K Read 27 4K Write 59 4K Mixed 31.6 113% 39.2 MB/s	DQ Read 127 DQ Write 168 DQ Mixed 72.3 76% 122 MB/s
Poor: 97% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 195%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 49GB free Firmware: EXT0AB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4400 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1872 (B1) Unknown 95 95 54 (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 68 54 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 285 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23944278695	55.5% Above average	Read 470 Write 102 Mixed 135 51% 236 MB/s	4K Read 30.7 4K Write 45 4K Mixed 11 84% 28.9 MB/s	DQ Read 185 DQ Write 101 DQ Mixed 9.73 43% 98.8 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 55.5% Great: 118%
Samsung Spinpoint F4 2TB-$119 45,158 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 529GB free Firmware: 1AQ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 67 1 10027 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3988 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7887 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3327 (B5) Unknown 98 98 58974552 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 319 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 54 197569151001 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 20 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 4057	49.7% Average	Read 76.7 Write 96.7 Mixed 99.6 69% 91 MB/s	4K Read 0.12 4K Write 0.94 4K Mixed 0.12 36% 0.4 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 49.7% Great: 72%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333 C9 4x4GB 2,501 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	54.2% Above average	MC Read 19.7 MC Write 19.8 MC Mixed 15.7 53% 18.4 GB/s	SC Read 13.3 SC Write 20.5 SC Mixed 17.7 49% 17.2 GB/s	Latency 66.4 60% 66.4 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 54.2% Great: 54%

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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	2,668x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	310x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	250x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	524x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	253x
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 $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	125x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	182x
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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Total price: $657

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $275	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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