Asus Z97-PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 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 85.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86.5% 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	118% 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	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.

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Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO (all builds)
Memory	25.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151027
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Nov 18 '17 at 09:40
Run Duration	256 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	25%

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PC Performing above expectations (81^st 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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	85.3% Excellent	Memory 97 1-Core 119 2-Core 220 84% 146 Pts	4-Core 401 8-Core 560 60% 480 Pts	64-Core 676 42% 676 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6276) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	86.5% Excellent	Lighting 107 Reflection 103 Parallax 88.2 87% 99.5 fps	MRender 98.2 Gravity 106 Splatting 105 85% 103 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 157GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 18874 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 426 (B1) Unknown 99 99 17 (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 59 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 79 (F1) Unknown 99 99 18436557127	118% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 404 Mixed 416 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 46.3 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 51.5 191% 66.8 MB/s	DQ Read 348 DQ Write 269 DQ Mixed 119 141% 246 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 134%
Spcc Solid State Disk 120GB 22,489 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 52GB free Firmware: 600ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 23495802 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 -123712237974483 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1060 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 103 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 23495802 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 23495802 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 23495802 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 97 97 21474836481 (E9) Unknown 0 0 19242 (EA) Unknown 0 0 19559 (F1) Unknown 0 0 19559 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11897	74.7% Very good	Read 496 Write 140 Mixed 216 62% 284 MB/s	4K Read 33 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 22.1 134% 53.5 MB/s	DQ Read 178 DQ Write 146 DQ Mixed 52.2 69% 125 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 74.7% Great: 83%
Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH162 3TB 28 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 1TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 118146840 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 203 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 60 60 1018298 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11735 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 203 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 67 470548506 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 25 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 19952 (C2) HDA temperature 26 40 42949672986 (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 -135652247068652 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5843334658 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2374186515	89.6% Excellent	Read 169 Write 144 Mixed 143 114% 152 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.25 75% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 89.6% Great: 104%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$75 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 897GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 101 99 3364432 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 678 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 100904818 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 25703 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 802 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 65538 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 61 504234012 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 428 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 78 78 45726 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 51539607580 (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 -79426830184585 (F1) Unknown 100 253 79320067247 (F2) Unknown 100 253 31313435717	111% Outstanding	Read 206 Write 180 Mixed 155 135% 181 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 5.43 4K Mixed 0.6 194% 2.23 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 108%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 719GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 170 169 2466 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1417 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 50 50 37110 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1405 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 63 504234011 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 607 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 809 (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	96.6% Outstanding	Read 171 Write 166 Mixed 151 122% 163 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.73 4K Mixed 0.31 114% 1.25 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 96.6% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 2133 C9 4x8GB 523 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	78.8% Very good	MC Read 28.5 MC Write 28.8 MC Mixed 25.3 79% 27.5 GB/s	SC Read 19.9 SC Write 24.8 SC Mixed 23.2 65% 22.6 GB/s	Latency 50.2 80% 50.2 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 78.8% Great: 92%

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Gaming 43%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 36%

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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 $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) $35	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