Asus GRYPHON Z97

Performance Results


Gaming 92% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 77% Battleship


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 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.1%, 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	84.6% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus GRYPHON Z97 (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140429
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 09 '16 at 00:31
Run Duration	177 Seconds
Run User	NZL-User
Background CPU	2%

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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 i7-4770-$75 176,321 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	85.1% Excellent	Memory 93.5 1-Core 118 2-Core 237 85% 149 Pts	4-Core 414 8-Core 633 65% 523 Pts	64-Core 633 39% 633 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 85.1% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6286) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 21.21.13.7306 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 139 Reflection 155 Parallax 134 113% 143 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 146 Splatting 114 102% 126 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 466GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 27 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 68 67 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15983366	105% Outstanding	Read 502 Write 407 Mixed 187 81% 365 MB/s	4K Read 37.6 4K Write 70 4K Mixed 44.3 151% 50.7 MB/s	DQ Read 325 DQ Write 276 DQ Mixed 132 145% 244 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 134%
Toshiba THNSNH128GCST 128GB 1,729 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 38GB free (System drive) Firmware: HTRAN101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (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 100 100 8874 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1779 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AD) Unknown 195 195 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 152 (C2) HDA temperature 71 59 176094380061 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	84.6% Excellent	Read 495 Write 460 Mixed 374 99% 443 MB/s	4K Read 20.2 4K Write 56.3 4K Mixed 28.3 97% 34.9 MB/s	DQ Read 175 DQ Write 125 DQ Mixed 95.6 86% 132 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 84.6% Great: 100%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$32 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 261GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 99 7988264 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3430 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 4350380235 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8720 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1743 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 60 73519595550 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 113 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 74 74 53055 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 -140737488355298 (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 -8555574848850 (F1) Unknown 100 253 17604463374 (F2) Unknown 100 253 17628678105	79.3% Very good	Read 132 Write 143 Mixed 15.3 70% 96.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 6.1 4K Mixed 0.29 174% 2.36 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 79.3% Great: 112%
Mass Storage Device 500GB 5,742 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 363GB free, PID 6116 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	20.3% Poor	Read 36.4 Write 40.6 Mixed 38.1 50% 38.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.97 4K Mixed 0.36 81% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 20.3% Great: 22%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 28,220 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1632 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	61.4% Good	MC Read 21.9 MC Write 22.3 MC Mixed 18.6 60% 20.9 GB/s	SC Read 16.3 SC Write 21.5 SC Mixed 20.7 56% 19.5 GB/s	Latency 60.9 66% 60.9 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 61%

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Gaming 65%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 55%

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Motherboard: Asus GRYPHON Z97 - $176

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	65x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	18x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	17x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	21x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	11x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	10x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	9x
840 Evo 500GBSamsung $150Bench 103%, 68,337 samples	8x
SSDNow V300 240GBKingston $35Bench 64%, 176,713 samples	7x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	6x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBCorsairBench 55%, 6,625 samples	5x
RipjawsX DDR3 2400 C11 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 68%, 1,661 samples	5x

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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 $40	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