Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


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 91.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Boot Drive	100% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160309
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 26 '17 at 06:38
Run Duration	242 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

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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, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.2% Outstanding	Memory 97.3 1-Core 137 2-Core 269 94% 168 Pts	4-Core 458 8-Core 724 73% 591 Pts	64-Core 723 45% 723 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 91.2% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6276) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.33 Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Lighting 115 Reflection 115 Parallax 100 94% 110 fps	Gravity 97.5 Splatting 99 87% 98.3 fps
Poor: 71% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 149GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 114 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 32 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 71 65 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 4 (F1) Unknown 99 99 448540533	100% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 417 Mixed 422 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 49.2 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 28.7 169% 62.4 MB/s	DQ Read 47.3 DQ Write 159 DQ Mixed 66.5 62% 91 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 97GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5378 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 717 (B1) Unknown 99 99 6 (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 74 55 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 16 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6821089840	112% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 413 Mixed 422 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 48.4 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 49.1 195% 69.3 MB/s	DQ Read 48.8 DQ Write 243 DQ Mixed 104 92% 132 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 134%
Intel 320 Series 120GB-$89 9,651 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 64GB free Firmware: 4PC10362 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 9017 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1869 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 35 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 245 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 29674 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 360134 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 3376 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 6 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 1351108962 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 98 98 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 360134 (F2) Unknown 100 100 540533	45.2% Average	Read 258 Write 135 Mixed 175 42% 189 MB/s	4K Read 22 4K Write 42 4K Mixed 15 75% 26.3 MB/s	DQ Read 139 DQ Write 60.3 DQ Mixed 26 39% 75 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 45.2% Great: 48%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 145752520 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3400 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 11852937 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3450 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 493 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 74 63 504496154 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 8 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 20221 (C2) HDA temperature 26 40 73014444058 (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 50083613639727 (F1) Unknown 100 253 14553913703 (F2) Unknown 100 253 550352037209	90.8% Outstanding	Read 176 Write 140 Mixed 144 116% 154 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.16 60% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 90.8% Great: 114%
WD Blue 320GB (2008)-$39 64,707 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 139GB free Firmware: 01.03E01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 137 134 4125 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9524 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 45 45 40498 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3462 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 444 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9524 (C2) HDA temperature 113 101 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	51% Above average	Read 102 Write 75.3 Mixed 73.5 63% 83.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 1.82 4K Mixed 0.28 78% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 51% Great: 60%
WD My Passport 0820 1TB 16,483 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 194GB free, PID 0820 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	20.5% Poor	Read 41 Write 39.8 Mixed 36.5 50% 39.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 0.23 73% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 20.5% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Sniper DDR3 2133 C11 4x4GB 666 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	78.1% Very good	MC Read 27.9 MC Write 29.1 MC Mixed 24.8 78% 27.3 GB/s	SC Read 15.8 SC Write 25.3 SC Mixed 25 63% 22 GB/s	Latency 48.9 82% 48.9 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 79%

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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 $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) $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