Asus MAXIMUS VII FORMULA

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 83.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	94.6% 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	92.6% 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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Very high background CPU (88%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus MAXIMUS VII FORMULA (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20141001
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	Jan 01 '16 at 20:52
Run Duration	140 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	88%

PC Performing as expected (51^st 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 4.55 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	83.1% Excellent	Memory 74.1 1-Core 125 2-Core 206 76% 135 Pts	4-Core 495 8-Core 724 76% 609 Pts	64-Core 728 45% 728 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 83.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX Titan X-$615 15,621 User benchmarks, average bench 75% Nvidia(10DE 1132) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.5906 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.6% Outstanding	Lighting 133 Reflection 106 Parallax 97.6 108% 112 fps	MRender 84.9 Gravity 90.3 Splatting 77 68% 84 fps
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 94.6% Great: 83%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 356GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 5 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 5 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 61 57 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1 (F1) Unknown 99 99 417711621	92.6% Outstanding	Read 503 Write 401 Mixed 415 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 41.9 4K Write 80.4 4K Mixed 26.4 140% 49.6 MB/s	DQ Read 223 DQ Write 80.3 DQ Mixed 27.2 53% 110 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 92.6% Great: 134%
WD Black 6TB (2015)-$296 5,447 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 100 0 (03) Spinup time 189 100 9533 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 20 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 179 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 20 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 100 18 (C2) HDA temperature 115 109 37 (C4) Reallocation count 200 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0	94.3% Outstanding	Read 153 Write 175 Mixed 151 120% 160 MB/s	4K Read 1.98 4K Write 2.56 4K Mixed 0.22 155% 1.59 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 94.3% Great: 118%
Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB-$80 85,620 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 209GB free Firmware: MX6OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 71 (03) Spinup time 139 139 34385887656 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1147 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 8364 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1015 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1483 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1483 (C2) HDA temperature 176 176 171799937058 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	51.5% Above average	Read 98.6 Write 80.7 Mixed 102 71% 93.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.17 76% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 51.5% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 2133 C10 2x8GB 3,028 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 2133 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (52^nd percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	50.9% Above average	MC Read 18.3 MC Write 18.6 MC Mixed 15.7 50% 17.5 GB/s	SC Read 14.7 SC Write 19.2 SC Mixed 17.3 49% 17.1 GB/s	Latency 92.2 43% 92.2 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 50.9% Great: 79%

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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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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