Asus Z97-DELUXE

Performance Results


Gaming 110% UFO	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 94% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 85.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	127% 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	74% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-DELUXE (all builds)
Memory	11.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160309
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 08 '16 at 08:53
Run Duration	167 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	29%

PC Performing as expected (55^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	85.9% Excellent	Memory 97.8 1-Core 125 2-Core 235 88% 152 Pts	4-Core 399 8-Core 643 64% 521 Pts	64-Core 668 41% 668 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 85.9% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Titan X Pascal-$286 8,692 User benchmarks, average bench 121% Nvidia(10DE 119A) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6905 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	127% Outstanding	Lighting 180 Reflection 199 Parallax 175 146% 185 fps	MRender 125 Gravity 167 Splatting 117 110% 137 fps
Poor: 108% ↑ This bench: 127% Great: 132%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX100 512GB-$200 31,545 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 234GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^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 2822 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 818 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 26 (AE) Unknown 100 100 45 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4403 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 55 193274314788 (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 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 13035824610 (F7) Unknown 100 100 411124182 (F8) Unknown 100 100 479160830	74% Very good	Read 372 Write 370 Mixed 361 82% 368 MB/s	4K Read 25.2 4K Write 65.8 4K Mixed 24 104% 38.4 MB/s	DQ Read 81.6 DQ Write 151 DQ Mixed 18 42% 83.7 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 107%
Crucial M500 960GB-$59 4,389 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 203GB free Firmware: MU05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^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 1493 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 371 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 26 (B4) Unknown 0 0 16523 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 53 201863462948 (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 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 4867384400 (F7) Unknown 100 100 152256450 (F8) Unknown 100 100 51249477	76.1% Very good	Read 378 Write 369 Mixed 365 83% 371 MB/s	4K Read 23.6 4K Write 73.5 4K Mixed 21 102% 39.4 MB/s	DQ Read 216 DQ Write 154 DQ Mixed 56.7 77% 142 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 101%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$24 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 24GB free Firmware: KC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 99 6280 (03) Spinup time 100 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1916 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 138768713 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7883 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1773 (B7) Unknown 1 1 1266 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 95 396 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 57 605683747 (C2) HDA temperature 35 43 42949672995 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 30 9 6280 (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 12751757909625 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3449543564 (F2) Unknown 100 253 582731142	48.5% Average	Read 94.9 Write 72.5 Mixed 101 68% 89.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 5.5 4K Mixed 0.36 172% 2.19 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 48.5% Great: 88%
WD Blue 640GB (2008)-$33 94,563 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 22GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 157 153 5116 (04) Start/Stop count 87 87 13912 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10861 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 87 87 13204 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 648 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 13908 (C2) HDA temperature 108 101 39 (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	54.4% Above average	Read 97.2 Write 92.3 Mixed 88.8 70% 92.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.97 4K Mixed 0.23 86% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 54.4% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident DDR3 2400 C10 4x4GB 102 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	83.8% Excellent	MC Read 30.4 MC Write 31.6 MC Mixed 26.9 85% 29.6 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 23.7 SC Mixed 25.1 64% 22.3 GB/s	Latency 46.8 86% 46.8 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 83.8% Great: 96%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-DELUXE - $650

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	405x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	65x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	61x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	45x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	44x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	39x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	17x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	15x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	13x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	26x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	25x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	15x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $1,328

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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