Asus Z97-K

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 45% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (88th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 12 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: 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 88%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	65% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-K (all builds)
Memory	27.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160331
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 20 '17 at 20:19
Run Duration	105 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4670K-$62 128,482 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	88% Excellent	Memory 94.7 1-Core 125 2-Core 241 87% 154 Pts	4-Core 470 8-Core 472 63% 471 Pts	64-Core 472 29% 472 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 88% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-X-$781 8,241 User benchmarks, average bench 59% AMD(1002 0B36) CLim: 1050 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.1.1 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	65% Good	Lighting 81.7 Reflection 58.6 Parallax 117 67% 85.6 fps	MRender 59.1 Gravity 90.9 Splatting 75.6 62% 75.2 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 65% Great: 65%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 175GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s 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 99 99 4760 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1372 (B1) Unknown 99 99 19 (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 70 50 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 149 (F1) Unknown 99 99 21009276150
Poor: 80% Great: 134%
Seagate ST32000641AS 2TB-$174 8,506 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 1TB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 165494345 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3698 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 4451693188 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10599 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2514 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 25770262540 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 66 52 572325922 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 229 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3813 (C2) HDA temperature 34 48 55834574882 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 48 22 165494345 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 21 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 69544110474963 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3630458498 (F2) Unknown 100 253 522946871	64.9% Good	Read 116 Write 110 Mixed 106 83% 111 MB/s	4K Read 1.01 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.51 127% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 64.9% Great: 73%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GB 12,722 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	73.2% Very good	MC Read 26.1 MC Write 27.3 MC Mixed 23.8 74% 25.7 GB/s	SC Read 18.1 SC Write 21.7 SC Mixed 23.3 60% 21 GB/s	Latency 58.1 69% 58.1 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 73.2% Great: 80%

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Typical Z97-K Builds (Compare 3,066 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97-K - $147

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	877x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	663x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	498x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	332x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	200x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	167x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	95x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	72x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	71x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	148x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	133x
CT102464BA160B.C16 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 11,058 samples	44x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $795

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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 $40	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