Asus Z97M-PLUS

Performance Results


Gaming 22% Surfboard	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 19% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	18.6% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	88.3% 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 (34%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z97M-PLUS (all builds)
Memory	11.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141208
Uptime	3.9 Days
Run Date	Aug 10 '16 at 05:27
Run Duration	256 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	34%

PC Performing above expectations (69^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	85.6% Excellent	Memory 94.6 1-Core 129 2-Core 245 88% 156 Pts	4-Core 413 8-Core 609 64% 511 Pts	64-Core 610 38% 610 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 280X-$500 94,130 User benchmarks, average bench 35% XFX(1682 3212) 3GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 16.200.1025.0 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	18.6% Very poor	Lighting 24.2 Reflection 16.1 Parallax 32.4 20% 24.3 fps	MRender 15.9 Gravity 23.6 Splatting 20.2 16% 19.9 fps
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 18.6% Great: 39%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 69GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13185 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1808 (B1) Unknown 94 94 71 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 50 35 50 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 475 (F1) Unknown 99 99 42241570743	88.3% Excellent	Read 496 Write 335 Mixed 342 87% 391 MB/s	4K Read 40.4 4K Write 69.5 4K Mixed 22.4 127% 44.1 MB/s	DQ Read 275 DQ Write 215 DQ Mixed 20 76% 170 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 88.3% Great: 118%
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB-$31 763,289 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 931GB free Firmware: MS2OA750 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 142 142 68 (03) Spinup time 125 125 12896960696 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1430 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 108 108 37 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5318 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 184 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1438 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1438 (C2) HDA temperature 139 139 227634380843 (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 200 200 0	106% Outstanding	Read 184 Write 186 Mixed 180 138% 183 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 2.13 4K Mixed 0.22 96% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 107%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 931GB free Firmware: JC4A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 164060884 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1231 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 8590876569 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2759 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 136 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 4295163907 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 57 49 824115243 (C2) HDA temperature 43 51 73014444075 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 24 24 164060884 (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 28887950035181 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2943212466 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4098454911	61.6% Good	Read 111 Write 103 Mixed 102 79% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.64 134% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 61.6% Great: 68%
WD VelociRaptor 250GB-$35 3,015 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 34GB free Firmware: 04.06A00 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 154 152 1291 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2879 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 21595 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1231 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 418 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2460 (C2) HDA temperature 105 95 38 (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	86.8% Excellent	Read 157 Write 144 Mixed 124 106% 142 MB/s	4K Read 4.52 4K Write 4.25 4K Mixed 0.44 315% 3.07 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 86.8% Great: 111%
WD VelociRaptor 250GB-$35 3,015 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 34GB free Firmware: 04.06A00 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 154 151 1275 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 980 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 17075 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 456 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 374 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 605 (C2) HDA temperature 99 91 44 (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	91.5% Outstanding	Read 185 Write 133 Mixed 141 115% 153 MB/s	4K Read 4.13 4K Write 0.69 4K Mixed 0.37 226% 1.73 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 91.5% Great: 111%
SanDisk Cruzer Glide 8GB 6,342 User benchmarks, average bench 11% 4GB free, PID 5575 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	12.8% Very poor	Read 25 Write 8.49 Mixed 16.8 19% 16.8 MB/s	4K Read 6.86 4K Write 1.85 4K Mixed 1.49 139% 3.4 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 12.8% Great: 14%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GB 18,444 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1800 MHz Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	65.4% Good	MC Read 23 MC Write 24.2 MC Mixed 20.8 65% 22.7 GB/s	SC Read 16.2 SC Write 22.4 SC Mixed 19.5 55% 19.4 GB/s	Latency 58.3 69% 58.3 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 65.4% Great: 71%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97M-PLUS - $350

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	300x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	172x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	162x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	112x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	76x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	60x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	35x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	26x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	26x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	44x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	31x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	24x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $998

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 $179	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