Asus Z97-C

Performance Results


Gaming 42% Speed boat	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 33% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	48.9% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	91% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-C (all builds)
Memory	28.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	4096 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151207
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 06 '16 at 01:43
Run Duration	327 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	11%

PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4590-$188 151,366 User benchmarks, average bench 63% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	77.3% Very good	Memory 90.4 1-Core 108 2-Core 210 78% 136 Pts	4-Core 369 8-Core 388 50% 378 Pts	64-Core 410 25% 410 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 77.3% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Asus(1043 8518) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7270 Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	48.9% Average	Lighting 60 Reflection 66.9 Parallax 55.8 49% 60.9 fps	MRender 66.4 Gravity 56.5 Splatting 57.6 49% 60.2 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 48.9% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 750GB-$310 3,724 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 574GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8966 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 655 (B1) Unknown 98 98 20 (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 64 51 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 422 (F1) Unknown 99 99 33751512900	91% Outstanding	Read 505 Write 348 Mixed 354 89% 402 MB/s	4K Read 39.2 4K Write 66.4 4K Mixed 26.8 129% 44.1 MB/s	DQ Read 326 DQ Write 180 DQ Mixed 96 113% 201 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 125%
SanDisk Extreme II 480GB-$192 1,439 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 418GB free Firmware: R1311 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 6625 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 474 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 24 (A8) Unknown 100 100 76 (A9) Unknown 100 100 476 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 12 (AE) Unknown 100 100 186 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 153 657130979358 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 40 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 6379 (F1) Unknown 253 253 3442 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1921 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	103% Outstanding	Read 468 Write 468 Mixed 450 103% 462 MB/s	4K Read 32 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 27.8 140% 55.1 MB/s	DQ Read 343 DQ Write 294 DQ Mixed 67.6 119% 235 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 110%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$60 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 950GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 186 168 5658 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1066 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4602 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 367 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 239 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 176 176 74422 (C2) HDA temperature 114 103 36 (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	49.7% Average	Read 90.8 Write 82.1 Mixed 76.5 62% 83.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.22 83% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 49.7% Great: 67%
Samsung HD103SI 1TB-$89 48,059 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 827GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 98 0 (03) Spinup time 83 83 5840 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10583 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 12542 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 17440 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 3 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3469 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 98 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 85 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 1 488374301 (C2) HDA temperature 69 50 521928735 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 167601 (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 99 13 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	56.9% Above average	Read 97.6 Write 101 Mixed 101 75% 99.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.45 105% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 56.9% Great: 59%
Samsung HD103SI 1TB-$89 48,059 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 797GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 84 84 5810 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9333 (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 96 96 18430 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3469 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 48 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 1 505282590 (C2) HDA temperature 68 55 538837024 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 95843 (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 11 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	54.1% Above average	Read 94.5 Write 94.1 Mixed 102 73% 97 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.48 4K Mixed 0.45 104% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 54.1% Great: 59%
Hitachi TOURO Mobile 1TB 1,327 User benchmarks, average bench 37% 127GB free Firmware: 0 Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	45.9% Average	Read 89.2 Write 70.5 Mixed 72.7 58% 77.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.34 4K Mixed 0.17 65% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 45.9% Great: 57%
Kingston DataTraveler 100 G3 USB 3.0 64GB-$12 26,708 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 55GB free, PID 1666 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	30.2% Below average	Read 121 Write 40.3 Mixed 25 62% 62.1 MB/s	4K Read 16.5 4K Write 0.009 4K Mixed 0.004 62% 5.5 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 30.2% Great: 30%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GB 8,730 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1648 MHz Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	58.4% Above average	MC Read 20.7 MC Write 22.3 MC Mixed 18.5 59% 20.5 GB/s	SC Read 13.5 SC Write 18.8 SC Mixed 16.4 46% 16.2 GB/s	Latency 66.7 60% 66.7 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 58.4% Great: 63%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-C - $256

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	241x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	172x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	85x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	76x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	51x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	49x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	33x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	23x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	21x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	40x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	30x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 58%, 8,730 samples	25x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $894

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16