Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 54% Yacht	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 47% Yacht


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 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 81%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	63.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	71% 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.

Very high background CPU (51%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	8.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150827
Uptime	1.3 Days
Run Date	Jan 20 '18 at 17:15
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	51%

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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	81% Excellent	Memory 93.1 1-Core 126 2-Core 204 83% 141 Pts	4-Core 372 8-Core 650 62% 511 Pts	64-Core 651 40% 651 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 81% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% MSI(1462 3170) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	63.9% Good	Lighting 81.4 Reflection 83.8 Parallax 74.4 66% 79.9 fps	MRender 78.6 Gravity 74.3 Splatting 66.6 59% 73.2 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 63.9% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB-$70 27,495 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 27GB free (System drive) Firmware: 580ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 18123651 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 11914239284842 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1251 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 332 (B1) Unknown 0 0 98 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 29 42 60132294685 (C2) HDA temperature 29 42 60132294685 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 18123651 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 18123651 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 18123651 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 97 97 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 13470 (EA) Unknown 0 0 8697 (F1) Unknown 0 0 8697 (F2) Unknown 0 0 8631	71% Very good	Read 358 Write 258 Mixed 249 64% 288 MB/s	4K Read 29.3 4K Write 89.1 4K Mixed 24 122% 47.5 MB/s	DQ Read 24.2 DQ Write 187 DQ Mixed 14.1 38% 75 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 94%
WD Purple 2TB (2014)-$67 19,126 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 170 4225 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3007 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4719 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1072 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 158 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2848 (C2) HDA temperature 120 107 27 (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	76.5% Very good	Read 137 Write 130 Mixed 119 97% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 2.29 4K Mixed 0.17 85% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 76.5% Great: 86%
Fujitsu MHY2200BH 200GB-$46 859 User benchmarks, average bench 19% 172GB free Firmware: 0000000B Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 96709 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 46071808 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 5695 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 8589934592000 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 2012 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 10714 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4124 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 429 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 36562 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 257698693149 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 48 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 452526080 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 253 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 24429 (CB) Run out cancel 100 100 3732249837938 (F0) Head flying hours 200 200 0	26.2% Poor	Read 45.5 Write 45.7 Mixed 43.8 34% 45 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 0.86 4K Mixed 0.35 72% 0.54 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 26.2% Great: 27%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 20,216 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 2400 MHz clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (40^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	56.5% Above average	MC Read 19.9 MC Write 20.4 MC Mixed 16.6 54% 19 GB/s	SC Read 15.7 SC Write 20.7 SC Mixed 19.5 53% 18.6 GB/s	Latency 61.9 65% 61.9 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 56.5% Great: 86%

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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	2,668x
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	253x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	246x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $160Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	197x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	172x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 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: 57% - Above average

Total price: $708

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 $46

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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