Asus GRYPHON Z97

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (86th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 14 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	90.2% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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 GRYPHON Z97 (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150427
Uptime	1.3 Days
Run Date	Jan 02 '18 at 06:06
Run Duration	121 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690-$51 73,695 User benchmarks, average bench 67% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.9% Excellent	Memory 95.6 1-Core 119 2-Core 239 86% 151 Pts	4-Core 452 8-Core 457 61% 455 Pts	64-Core 460 28% 460 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 0998) CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	90.2% Outstanding	Lighting 117 Reflection 119 Parallax 108 96% 115 fps	MRender 97.9 Gravity 104 Splatting 92.4 80% 98.2 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
32gb SATA3 SSD 32GB 16 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 14GB free Firmware: 11.56.00 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7138 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1072 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 90 (AE) Unknown 100 100 43 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 300 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 350 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4663549 (F2) Unknown 100 100 7561096	33.8% Below average	Read 415 Write 96 Mixed 160 48% 224 MB/s	4K Read 16.1 4K Write 11.5 4K Mixed 4.92 37% 10.8 MB/s	DQ Read 27.5 DQ Write 10.1 DQ Mixed 5 7% 14.2 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 33.8% Great: 34%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 482GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 57491424 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1483 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 126754160 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7767 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1274 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 77 62 387121175 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 67 67 67107 (C2) HDA temperature 23 40 51539607575 (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 -17111149701374 (F1) Unknown 100 253 58057155451 (F2) Unknown 100 253 341515693717	87% Excellent	Read 165 Write 138 Mixed 155 115% 153 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.15 67% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 4x4GB 14,299 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1632 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	64.4% Good	MC Read 22.1 MC Write 23.5 MC Mixed 20.3 63% 22 GB/s	SC Read 17.6 SC Write 21.7 SC Mixed 20.6 57% 20 GB/s	Latency 55.2 72% 55.2 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 64.4% Great: 64%

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Gaming 65%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 55%

Yacht

Motherboard: Asus GRYPHON Z97 - $176

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	65x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	18x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	17x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	21x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	11x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	10x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	9x
840 Evo 500GBSamsung $150Bench 103%, 68,337 samples	8x
SSDNow V300 240GBKingston $35Bench 64%, 176,713 samples	7x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	6x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBCorsairBench 55%, 6,625 samples	5x
RipjawsX DDR3 2400 C11 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 68%, 1,661 samples	5x

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Value: 79% - Very good

Total price: $796

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $250	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $168	Nvidia RTX 4070 $490	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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