Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 15% Surfboard


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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	13.2% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	72.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	4.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140613
Uptime	7.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 21 '18 at 10:18
Run Duration	222 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

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 i5-4670K-$62 128,482 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	85.9% Excellent	Memory 95.9 1-Core 114 2-Core 228 84% 146 Pts	4-Core 438 8-Core 449 59% 443 Pts	64-Core 453 28% 453 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 85.9% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 6850 31,600 User benchmarks, average bench 12% XFX(1682 3110) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.1901.0 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	13.2% Very poor	Lighting 17.4 Reflection 13.6 Parallax 14.6 14% 15.2 fps	MRender 11.5 Gravity 11.5 Splatting 17.4 11% 13.4 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 13.2% Great: 13%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 93GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7176 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 775 (A5) Unknown 100 100 50922163 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 31 (A8) Unknown 100 100 26 (A9) Unknown 100 100 750 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 7 (AE) Unknown 100 100 46 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 59 253404250144 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1516140233057 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 7394 (EA) Unknown 100 100 14173 (F1) Unknown 253 253 10223 (F2) Unknown 253 253 19002 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	72.4% Very good	Read 502 Write 285 Mixed 224 74% 337 MB/s	4K Read 37.4 4K Write 77.1 4K Mixed 12.6 114% 42.4 MB/s	DQ Read 39.1 DQ Write 83.9 DQ Mixed 7.31 21% 43.4 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 72.4% Great: 107%
Toshiba X300 6TB-$78 5,594 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 5.5TB free Firmware: FS2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 11088 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 485 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 418 (0A) Spinup retry count 109 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 62 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 14 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 534 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 154620002336 (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 200 253 38 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 100 100 150 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 628 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0
Poor: 58% Great: 109%
Toshiba P300 3TB-$100 74,038 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 2.5TB free Firmware: MX6OACF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 69 (03) Spinup time 136 136 34387526048 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 461 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 419 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 67 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 461 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 461 (C2) HDA temperature 176 176 163210330146 (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 47	109% Outstanding	Read 208 Write 172 Mixed 163 136% 181 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 1.12 4K Mixed 0.21 94% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 108%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB-$230 19,674 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 978GB free Firmware: CC44 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 107 99 13641456 (03) Spinup time 94 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6322 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 754187 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9631 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1202 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 6 21475164758 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 56 572260385 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 403 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 8972 (C2) HDA temperature 33 44 68719476769 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 674 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 11196979745966 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5962157451 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4090931413	53.7% Above average	Read 89 Write 96.8 Mixed 102 73% 95.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 5.36 4K Mixed 0.44 174% 2.14 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 53.7% Great: 94%
Samsung Spinpoint F4 2TB-$119 45,158 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 51GB free Firmware: 1AQ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 6008 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 67 1 10218 (04) Start/Stop count 87 87 13581 (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 10143 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 84 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3172 (B5) Unknown 99 99 36120136 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 879 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 58 184684642335 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 22 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 67 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 391 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 84 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 13806	58.5% Above average	Read 86.9 Write 117 Mixed 86.3 72% 96.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.24 4K Mixed 0.36 84% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 58.5% Great: 72%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 43GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 85215720 (03) Spinup time 89 89 0 (04) Start/Stop count 87 87 13368 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 4319549203 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 21416 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2361 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 25770196998 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 53 555417633 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 317 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 67 67 66668 (C2) HDA temperature 33 47 68719476769 (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 -55907589287862 (F1) Unknown 100 253 16785128427 (F2) Unknown 100 253 26910287454	81.2% Excellent	Read 143 Write 140 Mixed 86.7 92% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.11 4K Mixed 0.32 74% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 81.2% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GB-$35 38,490 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	67.4% Good	MC Read 24.7 MC Write 24.5 MC Mixed 20.6 66% 23.3 GB/s	SC Read 18.1 SC Write 20.8 SC Mixed 20.6 57% 19.8 GB/s	Latency 54.4 74% 54.4 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 67.4% Great: 67%

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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	2,669x
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	254x
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 $130Bench 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 $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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) $30	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