Asus Z97-PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 60% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 86.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	80% 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	124% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150427
Uptime	5.6 Days
Run Date	Dec 13 '16 at 05:09
Run Duration	180 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	86.2% Excellent	Memory 93.7 1-Core 118 2-Core 238 85% 150 Pts	4-Core 425 8-Core 628 66% 527 Pts	64-Core 661 41% 661 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3233) CLim: 1405 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 375.76 Performing below potential (61^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80% Excellent	Lighting 104 Reflection 108 Parallax 98.4 85% 103 fps	MRender 90.7 Gravity 94.2 Splatting 79.1 71% 88 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 163GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13269 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 48 (B1) Unknown 99 99 9 (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 69 59 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 20 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9892902810	124% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 408 Mixed 416 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 48.8 4K Write 128 4K Mixed 54.8 212% 77 MB/s	DQ Read 367 DQ Write 276 DQ Mixed 120 145% 255 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 124% Great: 134%
WD Black 3TB (2013)-$151 16,992 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 3TB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 173 10316 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 11 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2713 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 11 (10) Unknown 0 200 9573560054 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 8 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2 (C2) HDA temperature 121 116 31 (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	98.7% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 171 Mixed 162 127% 169 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 3.33 4K Mixed 0.27 130% 1.51 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 98.7% Great: 100%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 570GB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 173 4275 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 66 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 23312 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 66 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 36 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 157 157 131697 (C2) HDA temperature 122 109 25 (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	68.2% Good	Read 112 Write 125 Mixed 81.6 79% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 2.02 4K Mixed 0.17 80% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 68.2% Great: 84%
WD Red 2TB (2012)-$82 64,359 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 559GB free Firmware: 82.0 Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	54.6% Above average	Read 94.9 Write 94.8 Mixed 102 74% 97.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.85 4K Write 2.55 4K Mixed 0.29 115% 1.23 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 54.6% Great: 86%
Samsung Spinpoint F4 2TB-$119 45,158 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 117GB free Firmware: 1AQ1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 68 45 9963 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 144 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 43172 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 135 (B5) Unknown 100 100 5888998 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 4 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 54 197569282073 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 145	70.3% Very good	Read 111 Write 134 Mixed 121 92% 122 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 2.78 4K Mixed 0.35 108% 1.19 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 70.3% Great: 72%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 43,127 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	61% Good	MC Read 21.6 MC Write 22.2 MC Mixed 18.5 59% 20.8 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 22.5 SC Mixed 20 55% 19.3 GB/s	Latency 60.4 66% 60.4 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 61% Great: 63%

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Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97-PRO - $215

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	330x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	81x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	68x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	71x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	45x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	34x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	21x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	18x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	17x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	22x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	19x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	15x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $872

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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