Asus GRYPHON Z97 ARMOR EDITION

Performance Results


Gaming 41% Speed boat	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 35% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 94.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	38.2% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	127% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus GRYPHON Z97 ARMOR EDITION (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140930
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 09 '17 at 22:30
Run Duration	135 Seconds
Run User	NZL-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd 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 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.7% Outstanding	Memory 94.6 1-Core 139 2-Core 278 94% 170 Pts	4-Core 511 8-Core 746 78% 628 Pts	64-Core 747 46% 747 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 94.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 280X-$500 94,130 User benchmarks, average bench 35% Sapphire(174B 3001) CLim: 1020 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 16.6 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	38.2% Below average	Lighting 50 Reflection 33.2 Parallax 61.5 41% 48.2 fps	MRender 31.5 Gravity 48.4 Splatting 41.2 33% 40.4 fps
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 38.2% Great: 39%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO 250GB 47 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 35GB free Firmware: DXM05B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 1 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10920 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 420 (B1) Unknown 43 43 2076 (B3) Unknown 99 99 1 (B5) Unknown 99 99 1 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 58 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 63 (F1) Unknown 99 99 264936403086	85.8% Excellent	Read 485 Write 284 Mixed 382 85% 383 MB/s	4K Read 29.3 4K Write 95.8 4K Mixed 21.3 122% 48.8 MB/s	DQ Read 372 DQ Write 225 DQ Mixed 64.8 111% 221 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 85.8% Great: 127%
Intel SSDSC2CT240A4 250GB 34GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2406 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 920 (B1) Unknown 98 98 23 (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 65 49 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 40 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9379703899	127% Outstanding	Read 496 Write 481 Mixed 502 110% 493 MB/s	4K Read 39.5 4K Write 124 4K Mixed 57.4 199% 73.5 MB/s	DQ Read 372 DQ Write 329 DQ Mixed 133 159% 278 MB/s

Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 266GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 177266896 (03) Spinup time 96 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4267 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 70417463 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3865 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1228 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 70 54 505217054 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 45 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 13468 (C2) HDA temperature 30 46 17179869214 (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 126688650331859 (F1) Unknown 100 253 16723700110 (F2) Unknown 100 253 76500501957	65.7% Good	Read 125 Write 104 Mixed 114 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.36 4K Mixed 0.19 76% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 65.7% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 994055 2x8GB 25 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	62% Good	MC Read 21.9 MC Write 22.1 MC Mixed 18.6 60% 20.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 23.7 SC Mixed 21.1 59% 20.6 GB/s	Latency 58.3 69% 58.3 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 62% Great: 62%

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Gaming 97%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 81%

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Motherboard: Asus GRYPHON Z97 ARMOR EDITION

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	105x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	35x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	34x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	25x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	16x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	16x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $75Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	13x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	12x
S3 500G 500GBSandiskBench 92%, 12,292 samples	12x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	10x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	7x
Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 54%, 12,350 samples	7x

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Value: 63% - Good

Total price: $908

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16