Asus Z97-K/USB 3.1

Performance Results


Gaming 64% Destroyer	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 91.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	67.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	72.5% 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-K/USB 3.1 (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1440 x 900 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150407
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Oct 15 '16 at 14:53
Run Duration	180 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4670K-$127 128,482 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.2% Outstanding	Memory 93.4 1-Core 133 2-Core 269 92% 165 Pts	4-Core 512 8-Core 522 69% 517 Pts	64-Core 531 33% 531 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 91.2% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% MSI(1462 3283) Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7306 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	67.5% Good	Lighting 85.8 Reflection 84.2 Parallax 72.2 70% 80.7 fps	MRender 75.1 Gravity 76.9 Splatting 77.5 63% 76.5 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 49GB free (System drive) Firmware: 507KC4 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 109 24733863 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 -31439160600383 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2788 (0D) Soft read error rate 46 46 -43306130511705 (64) Unknown 0 0 12537 (AA) Unknown 0 0 3744 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 612 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 34 59 42953539618 (C2) HDA temperature 34 59 42953539618 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 24733863 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 109 109 115066468827136 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 24733863 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 24733863 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 0 0 14 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11432 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7204 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7204 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11120	72.5% Very good	Read 514 Write 166 Mixed 193 63% 291 MB/s	4K Read 27.4 4K Write 90.6 4K Mixed 18.6 113% 45.6 MB/s	DQ Read 201 DQ Write 193 DQ Mixed 43.4 75% 146 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 73%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$50 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 822GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 236037680 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2206 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 16871002 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3715 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1609 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 12 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 59 51 756678697 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 433 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 19305 (C2) HDA temperature 41 49 47244640297 (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 14358075673319 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5240729842 (F2) Unknown 100 253 11219918942	61.9% Good	Read 108 Write 107 Mixed 103 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.22 76% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 61.9% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 224GB free Firmware: CC37 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 224139346 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8744 (05) Reallocated sector count 83 83 715 (07) Seek error rate 60 59 81619573777 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6316 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 99 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3603 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 21475688529 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 47 689438757 (C2) HDA temperature 37 53 38654705701 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 32 24 224139346 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 197 301 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -131219840810872 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3684890640 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3063708689	47.7% Average	Read 89 Write 77 Mixed 82.6 62% 82.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.24 4K Mixed 0.46 100% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 47.7% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-037.A00LF 2x8GB 2,364 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1602 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	61.1% Good	MC Read 21.2 MC Write 22.7 MC Mixed 18.4 59% 20.8 GB/s	SC Read 15.9 SC Write 23.2 SC Mixed 20 56% 19.7 GB/s	Latency 61.3 65% 61.3 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 61.1% Great: 61%

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

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

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Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-K/USB 3.1

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	35x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	31x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	21x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	24x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	16x
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	12x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	11x
NVME SSD 256GBNetacBench 178%, 1,034 samples	7x
SSDNow V300 240GBKingston $35Bench 64%, 176,713 samples	6x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	13x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	9x
TEAMGROUP-UD3-1600 2x8GBUnknownBench 52%, 6,864 samples	5x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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