Asus ROG CROSSHAIR VII HERO

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 42% Speed boat	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 43% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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 77.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	47.8% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Motherboard	Asus ROG CROSSHAIR VII HERO (all builds)
Memory	11.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180417
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	May 18 '18 at 00:04
Run Duration	212 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing as expected (54^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X-$210 159,077 User benchmarks, average bench 76% AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	77.6% Very good	Memory 85.2 1-Core 120 2-Core 224 81% 143 Pts	4-Core 376 8-Core 702 64% 539 Pts	64-Core 1,312 81% 1,312 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 77.6% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 480-$75 261,163 User benchmarks, average bench 46% XFX(1682 9480) CLim: 1328 MHz, MLim: 2000 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 18.3.4 Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	47.8% Average	Lighting 57.5 Reflection 60.7 Parallax 77 47% 65.1 fps	MRender 68.8 Gravity 59.6 Splatting 55.7 50% 61.4 fps
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 47.8% Great: 53%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate IronWolf 6TB (2017)-$121 553 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2.5TB free Firmware: SC60 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 64 185681241 (03) Spinup time 87 86 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 461 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 80697226 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 851 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 100 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 94 6 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 61 555024415 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 884 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 44 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2046 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 77309411359 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 4 3 185681241 (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 -58849641889288 (F1) Unknown 100 253 7910884861 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1518722295
Poor: 56% Great: 110%
Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA632 2TB-$270 9,828 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 923GB free Firmware: ML6OA5C0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 136 94 (03) Spinup time 147 147 34381693341 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 11945 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 10 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 144 144 30 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 43335 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3183 (C0) Power-off retract count 90 90 12512 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 12512 (C2) HDA temperature 200 200 206159282206 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 13 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 27334	61% Good	Read 108 Write 105 Mixed 88.2 75% 100 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.38 101% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 61% Great: 73%
Toshiba X300 6TB-$78 5,594 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 436GB free Firmware: FS2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 10405 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3956 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 5816 (0A) Spinup retry count 179 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 160 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 89 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 5339 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 210454249501 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 94 94 2610 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 550 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	88.4% Excellent	Read 149 Write 159 Mixed 141 113% 150 MB/s	4K Read 1.25 4K Write 2.22 4K Mixed 0.3 126% 1.26 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 88.4% Great: 109%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 198GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 184 178 7791 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10807 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 68 68 23405 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1377 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 344 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 180 180 62904 (C2) HDA temperature 122 106 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	64.4% Good	Read 113 Write 111 Mixed 118 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.92 4K Write 2.02 4K Mixed 0.28 107% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 64.4% Great: 87%
Toshiba X300 6TB-$78 5,594 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 179GB free Firmware: FS2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 10659 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 9351 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 128 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 62 62 15521 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 649 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 295 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 11490 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 184684380189 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 4 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 87 87 5437 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 198 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	58.6% Above average	Read 102 Write 102 Mixed 96.2 75% 100 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 1.93 4K Mixed 0.27 112% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 58.6% Great: 109%
Maxtor STM3320613AS 320GB 3,623 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 85GB free (System drive) Firmware: MC1J Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 87579309 (03) Spinup time 100 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4607 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (07) Seek error rate 89 60 832198382 (09) Power-on hours count 37 37 55506 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4516 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 17180197043 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 703 (BE) vendor-specific 70 50 538247198 (C2) HDA temperature 30 50 55834574878 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 52 29 87579309 (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 -129712307251030 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3417776897 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3991847939	48.5% Average	Read 84.2 Write 84.8 Mixed 76.2 61% 81.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.26 4K Mixed 0.37 83% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 48.5% Great: 66%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$40 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 3200 MHz clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	102% Outstanding	MC Read 42.5 MC Write 35.8 MC Mixed 32.3 105% 36.9 GB/s	SC Read 24.9 SC Write 38.9 SC Mixed 27.5 87% 30.4 GB/s	Latency 71.8 56% 71.8 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 110%

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Gaming 98%

Nuclear submarine

Desktop 86%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 96%

Nuclear submarine

Motherboard: Asus ROG CROSSHAIR VII HERO - $250

CPU
Ryzen 7 2700XAMD $210Bench 76%, 159,077 samples	313x
Ryzen 7 3700XAMD $205Bench 86%, 635,419 samples	138x
Ryzen 5 5600XAMD $150Bench 96%, 383,420 samples	97x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	79x
RTX 2070S (Super)Nvidia $210Bench 115%, 663,603 samples	64x
RTX 2080-TiNvidia $441Bench 156%, 357,946 samples	57x

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	56x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	54x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	52x

RAM
Skill Intl F4-3200C16-8GTZR 4x8GBGBench 94%, 9,782 samples	41x
Skill Intl F4-3200C16-8GTZR 2x8GBGBench 90%, 10,185 samples	30x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GBCorsair $160Bench 88%, 110,884 samples	25x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $988

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 $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) $30	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