Asus Z97-PRO (Wi-Fi ac)

Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 92%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	90.8% 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	132% 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	Asus Z97-PRO (Wi-Fi ac) (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150427
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 23 '16 at 00:52
Run Duration	204 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st 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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92% Outstanding	Memory 97.4 1-Core 129 2-Core 251 90% 159 Pts	4-Core 466 8-Core 698 72% 582 Pts	64-Core 698 43% 698 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 92% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 8548) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6881 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.8% Outstanding	Lighting 117 Reflection 121 Parallax 118 95% 119 fps	MRender 98.9 Gravity 105 Splatting 97.6 82% 100 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
ST6000AS0002-1N917X 6TB 425 User benchmarks, average bench 15% 4.5TB free Firmware: AR13 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 100 168196576 (03) Spinup time 90 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 10 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2212934 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 14 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3 (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 74 60 437256218 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 7 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 21 (C2) HDA temperature 26 40 68719476762 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 118 100 168196576 (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 129098126983179 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2795095162 (F2) Unknown 100 253 5082113	19.4% Very poor	Read 169 Write 157 Mixed 110 32% 146 MB/s	4K Read 1.07 4K Write 13.4 4K Mixed 0.69 10% 5.05 MB/s	DQ Read 5.37 DQ Write 9.14 DQ Mixed 0.97 2% 5.16 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 19.4% Great: 19%
Samsung SM951 AHCI PCIe M.2 128GB-$110 2,093 User benchmarks, average bench 165% 56GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW2500Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2490 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 717 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 97 97 93 (AE) Unknown 99 99 17 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 396 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 62 43 38 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 11912 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5888 (F2) Unknown 99 99 4253	132% Outstanding	Read 726 Write 649 Mixed 696 154% 690 MB/s	4K Read 37.8 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 43.3 171% 63.5 MB/s	DQ Read 284 DQ Write 235 DQ Mixed 155 144% 225 MB/s
Poor: 116% ↑ This bench: 132% Great: 188%
Kingston HyperX 120GB 3,401 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 11GB free Firmware: 332ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 92 92 4723698 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 -93552977634891 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2099 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 654 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 23 46 42952687639 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4723698 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4723698 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4723698 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 3443 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3606 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3606 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4319	72.3% Very good	Read 488 Write 109 Mixed 201 58% 266 MB/s	4K Read 32.1 4K Write 119 4K Mixed 18.7 135% 56.5 MB/s	DQ Read 184 DQ Write 137 DQ Mixed 46 65% 122 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 72.3% Great: 81%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2TB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 8360 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 6121 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 21114051 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7363 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2338 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 18 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 74 51 437452826 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 325 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 7296 (C2) HDA temperature 26 49 51539607578 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 37 7 8360 (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 45758581578073 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3717839334 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3326311846	65.5% Good	Read 120 Write 108 Mixed 115 86% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.02 4K Mixed 0.62 110% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 65.5% Great: 75%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 916GB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 146 142 9666 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4187 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6892 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1703 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 254 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 185 185 47863 (C2) HDA temperature 127 98 25 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	55.6% Above average	Read 101 Write 92.9 Mixed 83.1 69% 92.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.22 68% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 55.6% Great: 83%

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 1600 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	83.9% Excellent	MC Read 31.3 MC Write 31.8 MC Mixed 26.6 85% 29.9 GB/s	SC Read 20.7 SC Write 23.1 SC Mixed 21.5 62% 21.8 GB/s	Latency 48.5 82% 48.5 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 83.9% Great: 85%

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Gaming 43%

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Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-PRO (Wi-Fi ac)

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	583x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	129x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	83x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	139x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	55x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	52x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	41x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	36x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	29x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	48x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	31x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	28x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $677

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