Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO

Performance Results


Gaming 29% Raft	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 25% Raft


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 83.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	28.5% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	114% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	11.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180418
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 13 '18 at 23:19
Run Duration	132 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	21%

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 i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	83.2% Excellent	Memory 95 1-Core 119 2-Core 212 83% 142 Pts	4-Core 385 8-Core 588 60% 487 Pts	64-Core 582 36% 582 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 83.2% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 270X-$199 77,943 User benchmarks, average bench 27% MSI(1462 3037) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1060 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 18.4.1 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	28.5% Poor	Lighting 35.9 Reflection 32.5 Parallax 44 29% 37.5 fps	MRender 29.2 Gravity 30.2 Splatting 38 27% 32.5 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 28.5% Great: 29%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 156GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6430 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2503 (B1) Unknown 98 98 38 (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 58 53 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 170 (F1) Unknown 99 99 37648599204	103% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 414 Mixed 421 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 42.1 4K Write 77.5 4K Mixed 39.5 155% 53 MB/s	DQ Read 220 DQ Write 205 DQ Mixed 88.9 101% 171 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 134%
Corsair Force MP500 NVMe PCIe M.2 120GB-$69 11,475 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 76GB free (System drive) Firmware: E7FM04.C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile)	114% Outstanding	Read 773 Write 669 Mixed 693 159% 712 MB/s	4K Read 30.9 4K Write 81 4K Mixed 21.7 117% 44.5 MB/s	DQ Read 182 DQ Write 180 DQ Mixed 55.7 76% 139 MB/s
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 185%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 331GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 95473792 (03) Spinup time 97 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5996 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 21086095 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6686 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3036 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 61 40 275550306343 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 885 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 76 76 49072 (C2) HDA temperature 39 60 -140737488355289 (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 82364587837730 (F1) Unknown 100 253 18969865386 (F2) Unknown 100 253 31000403782	91.2% Outstanding	Read 136 Write 182 Mixed 173 124% 164 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.24 73% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 91.2% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GB 8,026 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	67.3% Good	MC Read 24.6 MC Write 25.3 MC Mixed 21.5 68% 23.8 GB/s	SC Read 9.9 SC Write 21.4 SC Mixed 21.8 51% 17.7 GB/s	Latency 57.1 70% 57.1 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 67.3% Great: 71%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

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 $109Bench 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: 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 $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