Asus Z97-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 92% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (83rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 17 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	108% 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	48.1% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (18%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-AR (all builds)
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	Цвета: 2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180418
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	May 16 '19 at 15:30
Run Duration	153 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	18%

PC Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770-$75 176,321 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	83.8% Excellent	Memory 96.7 1-Core 112 2-Core 221 83% 143 Pts	4-Core 383 8-Core 586 60% 484 Pts	64-Core 566 35% 566 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 83.8% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon-VII-$841 13,762 User benchmarks, average bench 101% AMD(1002 081E) Ram: 16GB, Driver: 19.5.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 134 Reflection 101 Parallax 202 110% 146 fps	MRender 104 Gravity 150 Splatting 145 111% 133 fps
Poor: 91% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 106%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 320 Series 120GB-$89 9,651 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 81GB free (System drive) Firmware: 4PC10362 SusWrite @10s intervals: 126 129 133 133 133 131 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	48.1% Average	Read 255 Write 134 Mixed 142 SusWrite 131 37% 165 MB/s	4K Read 19.9 4K Write 40.7 4K Mixed 22.8 81% 27.8 MB/s	DQ Read 138 DQ Write 84.8 DQ Mixed 64.9 61% 95.8 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 48.1% Great: 48%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$80 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 431GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 74 71 80 73 67 75 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile)	47.6% Average	Read 92.2 Write 101 Mixed 76.8 SusWrite 73.2 64% 85.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.8 160% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 47.6% Great: 88%
Toshiba P300 2TB-$61 100,891 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 970GB free Firmware: MX4OACF0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 185 171 173 178 179 171 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	Read 176 Write 172 Mixed 21.2 SusWrite 176 98% 136 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 0.6 151% 1.27 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB-$80 31,610 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 196GB free Firmware: 3.AAK SusWrite @10s intervals: 73 73 73 74 74 72 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	42.2% Average	Read 73.7 Write 52 Mixed 46.8 SusWrite 73.1 45% 61.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.6 133% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 42.2% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown SP008GXLYU213NSA 2x8GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	76.9% Very good	MC Read 27.2 MC Write 29.2 MC Mixed 24.4 77% 26.9 GB/s	SC Read 19.6 SC Write 21.6 SC Mixed 24.5 63% 21.9 GB/s	Latency 51.6 78% 51.6 ns
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 76.9% Great: 77%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97-AR - $140

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	564x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	325x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	95x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	183x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	88x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	67x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	54x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	36x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	56x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	55x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	38x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $788

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $500	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16