Asrock Z97X Killer

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 52.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Boot Drive	44.5% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Very high background CPU (35%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU. CPU throttled at 99% by Windows. Ensure maximum processor state is set to 100% via Settings > System > Power & sleep > Additional power settings > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings > Processor power management > Maximum processor state.

Motherboard	Asrock Z97X Killer (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141217
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 20 '18 at 10:43
Run Duration	460 Seconds
Run User	MYS-User
Background CPU	35%
CPU Throttled	99%

PC Performing below expectations (40^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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.1 GHz, turbo 0.85 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	52.5% Above average	Memory 95.2 1-Core 36 2-Core 60 47% 63.7 Pts	4-Core 60.6 8-Core 71 9% 65.8 Pts	64-Core 71.2 4% 71.2 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 52.5% Great: 91%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 120GB-$76 9,139 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 60GB free (System drive) Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 9884 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1128 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1134023346175 (A6) Unknown 100 100 9 (A7) Unknown 100 100 37 (A8) Unknown 100 100 57 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 27 (AE) Unknown 100 100 178 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 58 53 227634839594 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 6622926079494 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3149 (EA) Unknown 100 100 10743 (F1) Unknown 253 253 7061 (F2) Unknown 253 253 5430 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	44.5% Average	Read 412 Write 125 Mixed 193 53% 243 MB/s	4K Read 21.5 4K Write 29.6 4K Mixed 8.78 60% 20 MB/s	DQ Read 86.2 DQ Write 60.1 DQ Mixed 15.2 27% 53.8 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 44.5% Great: 93%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 629GB free Firmware: 1AA01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 76 76 7990 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 351 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 813 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 198 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 52 605552676 (C2) HDA temperature 57 51 722993195 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 523528 (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 253 253 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0	59.8% Above average	Read 99.5 Write 109 Mixed 108 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 2.16 4K Mixed 0.44 115% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 59.8% Great: 62%
Samsung HD153WI 1.5TB 1,095 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 235GB free Firmware: 1AN10003 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 14442 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 62 61 11743 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10578 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 36266 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4208 (BF) G-sense error rate 99 99 19357 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 53 29 304943988783 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 35 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 28 1 38267 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 1183 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 146147	42.8% Average	Read 38 Write 111 Mixed 65 54% 71.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.28 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.22 64% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 42.8% Great: 62%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 37GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 117461384 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5352 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 12763207 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 11044 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1202 (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 59 51 706609193 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 42 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 9477 (C2) HDA temperature 41 49 90194313257 (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 70394513983254 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6591214040 (F2) Unknown 100 253 167993535313	78.7% Very good	Read 142 Write 131 Mixed 103 94% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 5.36 4K Mixed 0.41 169% 2.12 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 78.7% Great: 112%
Samsung S2 Portable 1TB 1,558 User benchmarks, average bench 16% 162GB free, PID 1f08 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	17.6% Very poor	Read 39 Write 41.5 Mixed 39.5 52% 40 MB/s	4K Read 0.33 4K Write 0.93 4K Mixed 0.36 45% 0.54 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 17.6% Great: 20%
TOSHIBA TransMemory 8GB 12,066 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 4GB free, PID 6544 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	6.5% Terrible	Read 30.6 Write 3.32 Mixed 5.75 12% 13.2 MB/s	4K Read 5.52 4K Write 0.01 4K Mixed 0.003 21% 1.84 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 6.5% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 20,216 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile)	18.7% Very poor	MC Read 3.8 MC Write 7 MC Mixed 4.8 15% 5.2 GB/s	SC Read 3.1 SC Write 3 SC Mixed 4.3 10% 3.47 GB/s	Latency 56.6 71% 56.6 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 18.7% Great: 86%

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Gaming 43%

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Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 37%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z97X Killer - $195

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	352x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	111x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	57x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	96x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	50x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	49x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	27x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	26x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	26x

RAM
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	33x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	27x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	25x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $873

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