Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 93% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 78% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	107% 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.
Boot Drive	122% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	11 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors, 2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150212
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 17 '17 at 08:20
Run Duration	182 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.8% Excellent	Memory 95.9 1-Core 118 2-Core 234 85% 149 Pts	4-Core 420 8-Core 631 65% 525 Pts	64-Core 625 39% 625 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 86.8% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3717) CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Lighting 139 Reflection 151 Parallax 133 114% 141 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 135 Splatting 110 98% 120 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 101GB free Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4438 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 586 (B1) Unknown 99 99 6 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 51 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 57 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6482159124	126% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 414 Mixed 424 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 51.2 4K Write 129 4K Mixed 55.9 218% 78.7 MB/s	DQ Read 356 DQ Write 265 DQ Mixed 105 134% 242 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 126% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 59GB free Firmware: EMT0 Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	83.2% Excellent	Read 375 Write 302 Mixed 309 73% 329 MB/s	4K Read 40.4 4K Write 67.7 4K Mixed 30.5 136% 46.2 MB/s	DQ Read 239 DQ Write 164 DQ Mixed 114 108% 172 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 83.2% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 50GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6751 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 908 (B1) Unknown 95 95 105 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 59 49 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 3 (EB) Unknown 99 99 97 (F1) Unknown 99 99 27791971042	122% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 415 Mixed 414 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 49.7 4K Write 124 4K Mixed 50.6 206% 74.9 MB/s	DQ Read 343 DQ Write 276 DQ Mixed 101 132% 240 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 124%
Hitachi HDS723020BLA642 2TB-$249 29,211 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 738GB free Firmware: MN6O Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 136 83 (03) Spinup time 147 147 34385363333 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2329 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 138 138 25 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 17420 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2277 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 2546 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 2546 (C2) HDA temperature 171 171 210453921827 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	63.5% Good	Read 107 Write 114 Mixed 89.8 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.4 111% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 63.5% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 189GB free Firmware: CC27 Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	65.9% Good	Read 105 Write 125 Mixed 110 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.34 4K Mixed 0.24 69% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x4GB 17,012 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	69.9% Good	MC Read 24.9 MC Write 25.6 MC Mixed 21.8 69% 24.1 GB/s	SC Read 18.5 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 22.7 60% 21.1 GB/s	Latency 54.4 74% 54.4 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 73%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 85%

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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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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $657

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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