Asus MAXIMUS VII FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 85.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86.1% 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	17.6% is an extremely low SSD score, this system will benefit from a faster SSD.
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.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	8.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151028
Uptime	4 Days
Run Date	Mar 04 '17 at 16:44
Run Duration	181 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	29%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd 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 (89^th percentile)	85.2% Excellent	Memory 95 1-Core 117 2-Core 240 85% 151 Pts	4-Core 407 8-Core 617 63% 512 Pts	64-Core 642 40% 642 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 85.2% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3250) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1595 MHz, MLim: 1774 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	86.1% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 113 Parallax 103 91% 109 fps	MRender 94.4 Gravity 99.8 Splatting 87.5 76% 93.9 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 128GB-$70 18,195 User benchmarks, average bench 99% 99GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9023 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 653 (B1) Unknown 99 99 36 (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 67 50 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 188 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6997364495
Poor: 71% Great: 119%
Samsung 850 Pro 128GB-$70 18,195 User benchmarks, average bench 99% 99GB free Firmware: EXM01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 18300 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 995 (B1) Unknown 99 99 49 (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 66 49 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 200 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12403564592
Poor: 71% Great: 119%
Intel X25-M 80GB 12,660 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 13GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2CV102M3 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th 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 11 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 30389 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3226 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 660 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 878165 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 10704879 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 0 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 3206336894 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 91 91 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0	17.6% Very poor	Read 255 Write 75.8 Mixed 36.7 26% 122 MB/s	4K Read 3.17 4K Write 3.43 4K Mixed 2.03 9% 2.88 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 17.6% Great: 44%
Seagate Momentus Thin 5400.9 2.5" 500GB-$21 168,449 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 54GB free Firmware: 0001SDM1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 180366936 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1559 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 8 (07) Seek error rate 62 55 55858239451 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 -104947525873504 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 527 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 53 656146470 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 158 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 14 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 88 88 24032 (C2) HDA temperature 38 47 73014444070 (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 99 99 -110896055581287 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2765090875 (F2) Unknown 100 253 15991385821 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	44.6% Average	Read 83.4 Write 72.3 Mixed 81.4 60% 79 MB/s	4K Read 0.26 4K Write 0.54 4K Mixed 0.17 40% 0.32 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 44.6% Great: 61%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GB 2,880 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz clocked @ 1870 MHz Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	61.2% Good	MC Read 21.5 MC Write 22.2 MC Mixed 19.8 60% 21.2 GB/s	SC Read 13.9 SC Write 20.7 SC Mixed 17.7 50% 17.4 GB/s	Latency 57.1 70% 57.1 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 61.2% Great: 71%

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Gaming 42%

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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 $94Bench 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: 62% - Good

Total price: $926

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 $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