Asus MAXIMUS VII FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 115% UFO	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 97% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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 87.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	133% 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	66.7% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1600 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151028
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 05 '18 at 07:57
Run Duration	138 Seconds
Run User	NZL-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$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 way above expectations (98^th percentile)	87.9% Excellent	Memory 95 1-Core 132 2-Core 260 91% 162 Pts	4-Core 436 8-Core 677 69% 556 Pts	64-Core 673 42% 673 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EA) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2775 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	133% Outstanding	Lighting 189 Reflection 201 Parallax 183 154% 191 fps	MRender 126 Gravity 183 Splatting 127 118% 145 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 133% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 1TB-$105 6,748 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 472GB free Firmware: X411 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 100 100 422 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 247 (A5) Unknown 100 100 4259886 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 55 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 1105 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 244 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 75 34 146030067737 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 55834574861 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 842 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1003 (F1) Unknown 253 253 945 (F2) Unknown 253 253 548 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	53.1% Above average	Read 317 Write 243 Mixed 231 59% 264 MB/s	4K Read 26.4 4K Write 43.3 4K Mixed 14.5 82% 28.1 MB/s	DQ Read 30.2 DQ Write 44.1 DQ Mixed 43.5 31% 39.3 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 53.1% Great: 108%
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 357GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3800 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1713 (B1) Unknown 92 92 87 (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 73 59 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 666 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23595008477	66.7% Good	Read 373 Write 261 Mixed 262 66% 298 MB/s	4K Read 37.5 4K Write 48.7 4K Mixed 24.2 114% 36.8 MB/s	DQ Read 38.1 DQ Write 51.1 DQ Mixed 17.6 21% 35.6 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 66.7% Great: 126%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 787GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 71641920 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1706 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 9531053 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3777 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1707 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 73 62 454361115 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1293 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 19935 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 47244640283 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 126851859089906 (F1) Unknown 100 253 10297857122 (F2) Unknown 100 253 23565140093	55.7% Above average	Read 95.6 Write 98.3 Mixed 98.4 74% 97.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 0.15 79% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 55.7% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 19,522 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	61.6% Good	MC Read 21.4 MC Write 22.1 MC Mixed 19.1 60% 20.9 GB/s	SC Read 16.2 SC Write 22.7 SC Mixed 19.5 56% 19.5 GB/s	Latency 57 70% 57 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 61.6% Great: 63%

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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 $179	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