Asus Z97-K

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 63% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 83.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	88.6% 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	136% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-K (all builds)
Memory	6.4 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20160331
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 23 '17 at 13:32
Run Duration	182 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	83.7% Excellent	Memory 91.3 1-Core 120 2-Core 232 84% 148 Pts	4-Core 411 8-Core 603 63% 507 Pts	64-Core 606 38% 606 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 83.7% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3236) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.43 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.6% Excellent	Lighting 115 Reflection 119 Parallax 119 93% 117 fps	MRender 97.2 Gravity 103 Splatting 92 79% 97.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force MP500 NVMe PCIe M.2 120GB-$69 11,475 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 41GB free (System drive) Firmware: E7FM02.1 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	136% Outstanding	Read 749 Write 564 Mixed 769 155% 694 MB/s	4K Read 35.2 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 50.3 173% 63.4 MB/s	DQ Read 458 DQ Write 342 DQ Mixed 153 181% 317 MB/s
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 136% Great: 185%
Toshiba MQ01ABD100 1TB-$58 322,803 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 277GB free Firmware: AX001U Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 2598 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 8633 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 65 65 14017 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3025 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 32 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 331 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 78 78 225437 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 227633987613 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 85 85 6190 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 268 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	51.8% Above average	Read 94.6 Write 85.7 Mixed 71.6 63% 84 MB/s	4K Read 0.32 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.18 61% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 51.8% Great: 62%
Samsung HM100UI 1TB-$47 906 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 141GB free Firmware: 2AM10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1469 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 80 75 6222 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6541 (05) Reallocated sector count 90 90 1248 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 16573 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 26 26 75300 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2902 (B5) Unknown 87 87 295720320 (BF) G-sense error rate 71 71 295142 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 56 193274314781 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 90 90 1248 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 108 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 11274 (DF) Load/unload retry count 26 26 75300 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 1000312	29.5% Poor	Read 54.9 Write 47.8 Mixed 52.2 39% 51.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.26 4K Mixed 0.31 72% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 29.5% Great: 53%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 88GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 187184088 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3878 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 124844836 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 12035 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1565 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 70 58 505151518 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 75 75 51111 (C2) HDA temperature 30 42 47244640286 (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 30438433235538 (F1) Unknown 100 253 42132013077 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1978386466758	84.4% Excellent	Read 147 Write 147 Mixed 153 112% 149 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.17 72% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x4GB 26,466 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	59.1% Above average	MC Read 22 MC Write 21.7 MC Mixed 17.6 58% 20.4 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 21 SC Mixed 17.6 51% 17.8 GB/s	Latency 65.3 61% 65.3 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 59.1% Great: 60%

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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	875x
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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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