Asrock Z97 Extreme4

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


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 93.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	80.8% 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	163% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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	Asrock Z97 Extreme4 (all builds)
Memory	11.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160727
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 26 '18 at 00:04
Run Duration	133 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	8%

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 i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.8% Outstanding	Memory 97.6 1-Core 135 2-Core 268 94% 167 Pts	4-Core 485 8-Core 709 75% 597 Pts	64-Core 709 44% 709 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 93.8% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4993) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 397.31 Performing below potential (68^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.8% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 111 Parallax 99.8 84% 105 fps	MRender 93 Gravity 94.8 Splatting 85.5 74% 91.1 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
MK001600KWDUN 1.5TB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 150% 1TB free (System drive) Firmware: HPK2 Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	163% Outstanding	Read 1,748 Write 806 Mixed 1,145 272% 1,233 MB/s	4K Read 32.7 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 20 129% 51.2 MB/s	DQ Read 27.7 DQ Write 245 DQ Mixed 10.6 45% 94.4 MB/s
Poor: 132% ↑ This bench: 163% Great: 163%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 32GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4618 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 666 (B1) Unknown 99 99 9 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 52 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 35 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1928729201	99.1% Outstanding	Read 497 Write 402 Mixed 417 98% 439 MB/s	4K Read 40.8 4K Write 96.8 4K Mixed 35.7 159% 57.8 MB/s	DQ Read 28.4 DQ Write 282 DQ Mixed 21.4 56% 111 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 99.1% Great: 124%
Hitachi HTS725050A7E630 500GB-$125 56,661 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 331GB free Firmware: GS2OA3C0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 222 100 77309411329 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1251 (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 87 87 5970 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 862 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 51 269942807 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 5 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1245203 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 74905 (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 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	69.7% Good	Read 125 Write 118 Mixed 117 90% 120 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.69 4K Mixed 0.18 76% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 69.7% Great: 72%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 40,596 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	78.8% Very good	MC Read 31.1 MC Write 29 MC Mixed 21.4 78% 27.2 GB/s	SC Read 21 SC Write 24.7 SC Mixed 25.6 68% 23.8 GB/s	Latency 47.8 84% 47.8 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 78.8% Great: 85%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z97 Extreme4 - $129

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	474x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	286x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	99x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	154x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	78x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	66x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	55x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	38x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	36x

RAM
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	43x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	39x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	24x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $777

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) $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