Asus MAXIMUS VII FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 55% Gunboat


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 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 83.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	76.6% 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	70.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (53%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	11.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140708
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 12 '17 at 12:05
Run Duration	149 Seconds
Run User	THA-User
Background CPU	53%

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 i7-4770-$75 176,321 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	83.8% Excellent	Memory 94.8 1-Core 113 2-Core 228 83% 145 Pts	4-Core 394 8-Core 557 60% 476 Pts	64-Core 607 38% 607 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 83.8% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Nvidia(10DE 1116) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	76.6% Very good	Lighting 101 Reflection 98.8 Parallax 87.4 82% 95.7 fps	MRender 83.6 Gravity 83.6 Splatting 75.3 66% 80.9 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Plextor PX-256M7VC 256GB 1,046 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 141GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1186 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 385 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 4 (AE) Unknown 100 100 6 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 5983 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1376 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 6 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1121 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2356 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1882	70.1% Very good	Read 505 Write 322 Mixed 152 72% 326 MB/s	4K Read 16.6 4K Write 47.6 4K Mixed 14.5 69% 26.2 MB/s	DQ Read 277 DQ Write 160 DQ Mixed 83.4 98% 173 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 103%
Corsair Force LS 60GB-$57 3,190 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 28GB free Firmware: S8FM Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6107 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2151 (A2) Unknown 100 100 37 (AA) Unknown 100 100 225 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 13828429 (AE) Unknown 100 100 137 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 137 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 30 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 238 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 92 (F1) Unknown 100 100 9697 (F2) Unknown 100 100 3422	56.4% Above average	Read 493 Write 103 Mixed 169 55% 255 MB/s	4K Read 19.6 4K Write 92.7 4K Mixed 9.87 92% 40.7 MB/s	DQ Read 105 DQ Write 95.4 DQ Mixed 27.8 41% 76.1 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 56.4% Great: 89%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 177 6083 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2700 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 5992 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2032 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 95 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 155 155 136429 (C2) HDA temperature 114 107 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	84.6% Excellent	Read 147 Write 148 Mixed 136 108% 143 MB/s	4K Read 0.91 4K Write 2.62 4K Mixed 0.28 118% 1.27 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 84.6% Great: 84%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 122,541 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	67.8% Good	MC Read 23.9 MC Write 25.8 MC Mixed 21.9 68% 23.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.5 SC Write 19.7 SC Mixed 18.4 53% 18.5 GB/s	Latency 57.7 69% 57.7 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 67.8% Great: 72%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII FORMULA - $284

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	499x
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	60x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	52x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	47x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	25x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	23x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 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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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $941

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 $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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