Asrock Z97 Killer

Performance Results


Gaming 100% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 80%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	126% 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	86.7% 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	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 (43%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asrock Z97 Killer (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141217
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 01 '17 at 00:34
Run Duration	181 Seconds
Run User	IRL-User
Background CPU	43%

PC Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690-$51 73,695 User benchmarks, average bench 67% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	80% Excellent	Memory 94.5 1-Core 108 2-Core 222 81% 141 Pts	4-Core 376 8-Core 398 51% 387 Pts	64-Core 402 25% 402 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 80% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing below potential (64^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	126% Outstanding	Lighting 171 Reflection 206 Parallax 180 139% 186 fps	MRender 131 Gravity 178 Splatting 130 119% 146 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 126% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 525GB-$150 105,037 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 371GB free Firmware: M0CR031 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 1749 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 339 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 3 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 76 63 158914314264 (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 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 604272128 (F7) Unknown 100 100 18887482 (F8) Unknown 100 100 4336259 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1919 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	67.9% Good	Read 478 Write 342 Mixed 338 86% 386 MB/s	4K Read 22.8 4K Write 74.3 4K Mixed 12 89% 36.4 MB/s	DQ Read 21.4 DQ Write 80.9 DQ Mixed 12.4 21% 38.2 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 67.9% Great: 99%
Crucial BX100 500GB-$49 13,478 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 83GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st 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 1207 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 908 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 72 (A3) Unknown 100 100 19 (A4) Unknown 100 100 31408 (A5) Unknown 100 100 98 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 28 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 2 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 11 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 85475 (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 3 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 251473 (F2) Unknown 100 100 307324 (F5) Unknown 100 100 502528	86.7% Excellent	Read 501 Write 424 Mixed 462 103% 462 MB/s	4K Read 24.2 4K Write 98.3 4K Mixed 20.8 115% 47.7 MB/s	DQ Read 24.9 DQ Write 284 DQ Mixed 19.9 55% 110 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 108%
Faspeed H5-500G 500GB 17 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 72GB free Firmware: O0724B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^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 100 100 146 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 804 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 65 (A3) Unknown 100 100 26 (A4) Unknown 100 100 8135 (A5) Unknown 100 100 32 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 8 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 7 (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 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 91872 (F2) Unknown 100 100 177487 (F5) Unknown 100 100 130160	77.2% Very good	Read 502 Write 376 Mixed 433 97% 437 MB/s	4K Read 23.2 4K Write 95.4 4K Mixed 17 107% 45.2 MB/s	DQ Read 23.4 DQ Write 105 DQ Mixed 62.8 49% 63.9 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 77.2% Great: 103%
WD Blue 2.5" 320GB (2009)-$71 42,987 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 97GB free Firmware: 11.01A11 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 186 182 1700 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8546 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 19612 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5167 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 302 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 155 155 136466 (C2) HDA temperature 122 93 25 (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	32.1% Below average	Read 57.8 Write 53.9 Mixed 54 42% 55.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.26 72% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 32.1% Great: 41%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GB 48,796 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	61.1% Good	MC Read 21.4 MC Write 22.7 MC Mixed 19.8 61% 21.3 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 19.7 SC Mixed 14.9 48% 16.7 GB/s	Latency 58.5 68% 58.5 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 61.1% Great: 63%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asrock Z97 Killer - $158

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	455x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	268x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	81x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	147x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	88x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	73x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	50x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	46x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	37x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	37x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	33x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 56%, 22,320 samples	28x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $805

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16