Asus Z97-P

Performance Results

Benchmarks - excluding HDD
Gaming 69% Battle cruiser	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 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 75.7%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	73.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Very high background CPU (43%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. Find active processes with Windows task manager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC).

Run History

11 months ago, 11 months ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-P (all builds)
Memory	9.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160311
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Aug 15 '16 at 02:01
Run Duration	107 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	43%

PC Performing as expected (48^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Single core	Quad core	Multi core
Intel Core i5-4690K-$235 47,726 User benchmarks - Average bench 81% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	75.7% Very good	SC Int 118 SC Float 124 SC Mixed 118 96% 120 Pts	QC Int 402 QC Float 418 QC Mixed 363 89% 394 Pts	MC Int 422 MC Float 447 MC Mixed 438 65% 436 Pts
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 75.7% Great: 98%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 780 Ti-$410 7,673 User benchmarks - Average bench 72% EVGA(3842 2884) 3GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6881 Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	73.8% Very good	Lighting 197 Reflection 176 Parallax 285 70% 219 fps	MRender 165 Gravity 169 Splatting 115 80% 150 fps
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 83%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Trion 150 960GB-$280 460 User benchmarks - Average bench 71% 384GB free Firmware: SAFZ12.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s NCQ 4KALIGNED SSD TRIM S.M.A.R.T Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1855 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 155 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 200 200 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 6 (C2) HDA temperature 69 48 223339020319 (F1) Unknown 100 100 75939	81.5% Excellent	Read 514 Write 353 Mixed 354 90% 407 MB/s	4K Read 31.2 4K Write 73.5 4K Mixed 9.71 99% 38.1 MB/s	DQ Read 312 DQ Write 217 DQ Mixed 43.3 92% 191 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 81.5% Great: 82%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$139 40,037 User benchmarks - Average bench 79% 75GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s SYSTEM NCQ 4KALIGNED SSD TRIM S.M.A.R.T Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9379 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 903 (B1) Unknown 96 96 37 (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 40 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 748 (F1) Unknown 99 99 21637044661
Poor: 56% Great: 95%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Sniper DDR3 2133 C10 4x4GB 38 User benchmarks - Average bench 63% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	70.7% Very good	MC Read 24.9 MC Write 28.8 MC Mixed 22.8 73% 25.5 GB/s	SC Read 15.6 SC Write 16.5 SC Mixed 16.5 46% 16.2 GB/s	Latency 54.1 74% 54.1 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 79%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds.

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Typical Z97-P Builds (Compare 2,306 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings.

Gaming 62%

Destroyer

Desktop 73%

Battleship

Workstation 48%

Yacht

Motherboard: Asus Z97-P - $110

CPU
Core i5-4690KIntel $235Bench 81%, 47,726 samples	714x
Core i7-4790KIntel $339Bench 87%, 85,790 samples	556x
Core i5-4460Intel $178Bench 65%, 33,520 samples	238x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $370Bench 63%, 165,636 samples	529x
GTX 960Nvidia $200Bench 41%, 76,968 samples	247x
GTX 1070Nvidia $380Bench 99%, 126,996 samples	155x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $97Bench 96%, 143,814 samples	307x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $60Bench 47%, 69,571 samples	191x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $139Bench 79%, 40,037 samples	83x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperX $118Bench 58%, 16,853 samples	143x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperX $115Bench 54%, 8,298 samples	84x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBHyperX $63Bench 50%, 8,088 samples	82x

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Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $930

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-7700K $295	Nvidia GTX 1070 $380	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $97
AMD Ryzen 7 1700 $268	AMD RX 480 $260	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $136
Intel Core i5-7600K $238	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $239	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $159

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $50	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $714	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $34
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $83	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $132	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $23
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB $44	HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GB $143	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $13