Asus Z97-K

Performance Results


Gaming 19% Surfboard	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 17% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 95.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	13.7% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
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.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-K (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140423
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Jun 18 '18 at 08:42
Run Duration	121 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.2% Outstanding	Memory 95.8 1-Core 127 2-Core 258 90% 160 Pts	4-Core 519 8-Core 684 77% 601 Pts	64-Core 701 43% 701 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 95.2% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 5830 2,946 User benchmarks, average bench 13% MSI(1462 2092) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	13.7% Very poor	Lighting 18.5 Reflection 12.6 Parallax 16.9 15% 16 fps	MRender 10.9 Gravity 13.9 Splatting 14.8 11% 13.2 fps
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 13.7% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 120GB-$35 80,916 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 72GB free Firmware: 0C3J96R9 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^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 1 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 5 (64) Unknown 100 100 24384 (65) Unknown 100 100 6832 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 3 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 14 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 704 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 35 100 171800068131 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 44 (EA) Unknown 100 100 40 (F1) Unknown 100 100 42 (F2) Unknown 100 100 3 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0	48.5% Average	Read 451 Write 164 Mixed 159 56% 258 MB/s	4K Read 19.6 4K Write 24.8 4K Mixed 10.1 56% 18.2 MB/s	DQ Read 157 DQ Write 25.5 DQ Mixed 21.5 34% 68 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 48.5% Great: 82%
Hitachi HDS721050CLA360 500GB 12,793 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 294GB free (System drive) Firmware: JP2OA50E Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 524295 (02) Throughput performance 135 135 96 (03) Spinup time 119 119 12897681599 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1436 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 138 138 31 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6233 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1433 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1436 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1436 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 249109086241 (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 1	54.6% Above average	Read 93.3 Write 97 Mixed 91 71% 93.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.38 91% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 54.6% Great: 77%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 34,385 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1632 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	64.7% Good	MC Read 23 MC Write 22.6 MC Mixed 19.6 62% 21.7 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 21.3 61% 21.5 GB/s	Latency 54.7 73% 54.7 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 64.7% Great: 63%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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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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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $795

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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) $30	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