Asus Z97M-PLUS

Performance Results


Gaming 66% Battle cruiser	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 53% Yacht


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 97%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	62.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	94.7% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Motherboard	Asus Z97M-PLUS (all builds)
Memory	6.2 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	Feb 22 '18 at 22:23
Run Duration	158 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	1%

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 i5-5675C-$289 945 User benchmarks, average bench 81% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.1 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	97% Outstanding	Memory 99.3 1-Core 141 2-Core 281 97% 174 Pts	4-Core 546 8-Core 555 73% 551 Pts	64-Core 556 34% 556 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 97% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-$199 18,014 User benchmarks, average bench 58% Sapphire(174B E329) CLim: 1000 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 18.2.2 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	62.8% Good	Lighting 81 Reflection 56.1 Parallax 105 66% 80.5 fps	MRender 56.7 Gravity 76.2 Splatting 71.9 56% 68.2 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 62.8% Great: 62%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SM2280S3G2480G 480GB 1,177 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 252GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM01.W Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th 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 0 (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 100 100 60 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 46 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 829 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 15 (C2) HDA temperature 60 47 227634774056 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 428 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 433 (F2) Unknown 100 100 431 (F4) Unknown 100 100 0 (F5) Unknown 100 100 1 (F6) Unknown 100 100 124288	94.7% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 499 Mixed 371 103% 462 MB/s	4K Read 30.5 4K Write 100 4K Mixed 13.9 117% 48.1 MB/s	DQ Read 206 DQ Write 262 DQ Mixed 54.1 91% 174 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 94.7% Great: 107%
FCCT256M4SSD1 256GB 628 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 183GB free Firmware: 070H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 11729 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2321 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 97 97 100 (AE) Unknown 100 100 415 (B5) Unknown 100 100 13005208488190 (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 81 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 100 100 45 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 97 97 3 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	70.2% Very good	Read 502 Write 257 Mixed 272 76% 344 MB/s	4K Read 23.5 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 6.02 100% 45.6 MB/s	DQ Read 89.1 DQ Write 215 DQ Mixed 6.07 46% 104 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 70.2% Great: 75%
TP02000GB 2TB 545 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 137GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 24 (03) Spinup time 173 161 6308 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2593 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 1 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 9967 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1791 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 154 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2438 (C2) HDA temperature 103 89 47 (C4) Reallocation count 199 199 1 (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	68.4% Good	Read 125 Write 113 Mixed 115 89% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 3.17 4K Mixed 0.21 105% 1.31 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 68.4% Great: 92%
TP02000GB 2TB 545 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 100GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 184 173 5791 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2328 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 10073 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1805 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 155 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2172 (C2) HDA temperature 103 92 47 (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	74.5% Very good	Read 114 Write 146 Mixed 135 99% 131 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 2.74 4K Mixed 0.32 107% 1.18 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 74.5% Great: 92%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C9D3/4GX 99U5403-067.A00LF 8GB 78 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.3% Excellent	MC Read 42.6 MC Write 21.5 MC Mixed 33 92% 32.4 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 22.2 SC Mixed 18.9 53% 18.5 GB/s	Latency 39.6 101% 39.6 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 89.3% Great: 59%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97M-PLUS - $350

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	300x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	172x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	162x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	112x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	76x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	60x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	35x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	26x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	26x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	44x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	31x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	24x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $998

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	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 $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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