Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 100% UFO	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 96.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	89.4% 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	139% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	10.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170124
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 13 '17 at 01:16
Run Duration	193 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	13%

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PC Performing above expectations (63^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, 4 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96.9% Outstanding	Memory 96.1 1-Core 143 2-Core 287 97% 175 Pts	4-Core 569 8-Core 538 75% 553 Pts	64-Core 567 35% 567 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 96.9% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2050 MHz, MLim: 2007 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.4% Excellent	Lighting 114 Reflection 118 Parallax 100 93% 111 fps	MRender 98.4 Gravity 101 Splatting 104 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 340GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	139% Outstanding	Read 729 Write 548 Mixed 544 135% 607 MB/s	4K Read 51.7 4K Write 128 4K Mixed 46.9 206% 75.6 MB/s	DQ Read 248 DQ Write 391 DQ Mixed 123 148% 254 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 139% Great: 254%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 116GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 5035 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2051 (B1) Unknown 99 99 18 (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 69 55 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 599 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10796053282	118% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 416 Mixed 423 101% 452 MB/s	4K Read 48.5 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 52.6 198% 69.5 MB/s	DQ Read 244 DQ Write 278 DQ Mixed 116 128% 213 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 134%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 107GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6659 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2803 (B1) Unknown 94 94 61 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 67 54 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1322 (F1) Unknown 99 99 36906299403	96.5% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 351 Mixed 358 90% 406 MB/s	4K Read 46.3 4K Write 82.8 4K Mixed 28.5 150% 52.5 MB/s	DQ Read 229 DQ Write 234 DQ Mixed 84.6 104% 183 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 96.5% Great: 118%
Marvell Raid VD 2TB 300 User benchmarks, average bench 116% 267GB free Firmware: MV.R00-0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value	141% Outstanding	Read 285 Write 202 Mixed 195 170% 227 MB/s	4K Read 13.5 4K Write 4.31 4K Mixed 0.54 703% 6.12 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 141% Great: 199%
WD WD6000HLHX-01JJPV0 600GB 6,863 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 111GB free Firmware: 04.05G04 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 199 197 7759 (03) Spinup time 234 228 3300 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6350 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 11682 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5243 (C0) Power-off retract count 197 197 2649 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3865 (C2) HDA temperature 114 103 36 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 198 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 198 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 199 89 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	60.5% Good	Read 112 Write 97.9 Mixed 95 76% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.96 4K Write 2.96 4K Mixed 0.71 174% 1.55 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 60.5% Great: 80%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 40,596 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	86.5% Excellent	MC Read 30.6 MC Write 34 MC Mixed 29.2 89% 31.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 25.5 SC Mixed 23 63% 22 GB/s	Latency 53.7 74% 53.7 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 85%

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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	2,671x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	311x
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 $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	197x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	172x
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	101x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $642

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	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