Asus Z97-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 102% UFO	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 80% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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 93.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	106% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	112% 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.

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Motherboard	Asus Z97-AR (all builds)
Memory	11.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150424
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Feb 21 '18 at 02:19
Run Duration	173 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	12%

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PC Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 0.8 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.7% Outstanding	Memory 97.8 1-Core 134 2-Core 268 93% 166 Pts	4-Core 518 8-Core 513 69% 516 Pts	64-Core 515 32% 515 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 93.7% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 85AA) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	Lighting 138 Reflection 147 Parallax 141 113% 142 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 134 Splatting 110 98% 120 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 13GB free Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 13402976 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -109255378075637 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 0 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 28 40 68722098204 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 68722098204 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 13402976 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 13402976 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 13402976 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 4294967296 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4294963409 (EA) Unknown 0 0 16 (F1) Unknown 0 0 16 (F2) Unknown 0 0 13 (F4) Unknown 100 100 2424853	75.3% Very good	Read 512 Write 188 Mixed 235 68% 312 MB/s	4K Read 26.7 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 17.3 123% 52.8 MB/s	DQ Read 150 DQ Write 205 DQ Mixed 50.7 74% 135 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 75.3% Great: 85%
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 2GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1682 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1196 (B1) Unknown 98 98 29 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 52 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 51 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6917389436	112% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 410 Mixed 412 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 46.2 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 39.6 177% 63.7 MB/s	DQ Read 327 DQ Write 279 DQ Mixed 26.3 95% 211 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 115%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 156264496 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 440 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 13692741 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 332 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 433 (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 72 57 487850012 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 111 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1199 (C2) HDA temperature 28 43 60129542172 (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 31091268256065 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3556729392 (F2) Unknown 100 253 31926557534	105% Outstanding	Read 190 Write 175 Mixed 172 135% 179 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.18 76% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 114%
WD WD2500BEVT-00A23T0 1TB 17 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 168GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 184 181 1775 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11893 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1458 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1095 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 172 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 17517 (C2) HDA temperature 121 106 26 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 261	33.3% Below average	Read 57.2 Write 58.6 Mixed 54.7 43% 56.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.78 4K Mixed 0.22 74% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 33.3% Great: 89%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 2400 C11 4x4GB 1,336 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2448 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	88.9% Excellent	MC Read 32 MC Write 34 MC Mixed 29.1 90% 31.7 GB/s	SC Read 16.8 SC Write 24.5 SC Mixed 28.5 66% 23.3 GB/s	Latency 46.9 85% 46.9 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 88.9% Great: 96%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97-AR - $140

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	560x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	322x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	95x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	183x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	86x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	67x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	54x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	36x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	56x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	55x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	38x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $788

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