Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 89% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 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 88.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	97.4% 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	108% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	10.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170124
Uptime	5.3 Days
Run Date	Jun 20 '17 at 16:49
Run Duration	287 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	11%

PC Performing as expected (47^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)	88.4% Excellent	Memory 97.2 1-Core 132 2-Core 253 91% 161 Pts	4-Core 430 8-Core 679 68% 554 Pts	64-Core 657 41% 657 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 88.4% 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 85E4) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2615 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing below potential (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	97.4% Outstanding	Lighting 122 Reflection 161 Parallax 143 99% 142 fps	MRender 108 Gravity 127 Splatting 110 94% 115 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 97.4% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 159GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8827 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1185 (B1) Unknown 99 99 15 (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 62 60 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 68 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4803801542	111% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 392 Mixed 415 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 43.6 4K Write 86.9 4K Mixed 45.1 170% 58.5 MB/s	DQ Read 363 DQ Write 269 DQ Mixed 109 138% 247 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 124%
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB-$130 75,831 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 132GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3684 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 373 (B1) Unknown 98 98 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 63 56 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 10 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2954558075	85.5% Excellent	Read 491 Write 264 Mixed 276 76% 344 MB/s	4K Read 40.1 4K Write 56.8 4K Mixed 28.5 127% 41.8 MB/s	DQ Read 343 DQ Write 178 DQ Mixed 69.7 103% 197 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 85.5% Great: 114%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 132GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10564 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1448 (B1) Unknown 96 96 66 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 58 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 111 (F1) Unknown 99 99 27647471548	108% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 381 Mixed 411 96% 434 MB/s	4K Read 41.1 4K Write 82.8 4K Mixed 45.5 164% 56.4 MB/s	DQ Read 354 DQ Write 257 DQ Mixed 115 138% 242 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 124%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 502GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 171 169 2450 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1913 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6489 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 746 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 217 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1695 (C2) HDA temperature 107 104 36 (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	49.8% Average	Read 79.8 Write 93.5 Mixed 95.8 68% 89.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.91 4K Write 2.01 4K Mixed 0.31 110% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 49.8% Great: 109%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 241GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 106 99 73531614 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10263 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 57 56 236251044718 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 24684 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2729 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 196613 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 52 588840995 (C2) HDA temperature 35 48 68719476771 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 27 13 73531614 (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 48971217142174 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4125393412 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3485028358	51.9% Above average	Read 93.1 Write 87.7 Mixed 78.5 65% 86.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.57 121% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 51.9% Great: 68%
ST1000DM 003-1CH162 1TB 61 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 308GB free, PID 55aa Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile)	43.2% Average	Read 96.8 Write 109 Mixed 63.2 114% 89.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.31 71% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 43.2% Great: 73%
ST2000DM 001-9YN164 2TB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 288GB free, PID b159 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	17.4% Very poor	Read 37.7 Write 38.9 Mixed 17.8 39% 31.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.99 4K Write 1.06 4K Mixed 0.27 49% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 17.4% Great: 17%
ASMT 2105 1TB 1,332 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 141GB free, PID 55aa Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	65.3% Good	Read 165 Write 163 Mixed 104 179% 144 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 1.86 4K Mixed 0.31 77% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 65.3% Great: 79%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 4x4GB 2,168 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	81.2% Excellent	MC Read 28.8 MC Write 30.8 MC Mixed 26 82% 28.5 GB/s	SC Read 19.2 SC Write 23.8 SC Mixed 25.5 65% 22.8 GB/s	Latency 49.6 81% 49.6 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 81.2% Great: 88%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	2,675x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	312x
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	173x
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	102x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $642

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $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