Asus Z97-K/USB 3.1

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 80.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	104% 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	63.1% 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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-K/USB 3.1 (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20150521
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Dec 27 '16 at 21:15
Run Duration	127 Seconds
Run User	AUT-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	80.8% Excellent	Memory 92.1 1-Core 110 2-Core 189 77% 131 Pts	4-Core 376 8-Core 571 59% 473 Pts	64-Core 573 36% 573 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% PNY(196E 119E) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 135 Reflection 149 Parallax 140 110% 141 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 130 Splatting 106 94% 117 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung MZ7TE128HMGR-000L1 128GB 5,980 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 58GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0100Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 1 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7286 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1040 (B1) Unknown 90 1 90 (B3) Unknown 100 100 100 (B5) Unknown 100 7 0 (B6) Unknown 100 1 0 (B7) Unknown 100 1 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 58 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 35 (F1) Unknown 99 99 29509695691 (F2) Unknown 99 99 15434491945	63.1% Good	Read 454 Write 125 Mixed 196 56% 258 MB/s	4K Read 34.7 4K Write 96.2 4K Mixed 12.9 120% 47.9 MB/s	DQ Read 38.5 DQ Write 111 DQ Mixed 21.3 32% 56.9 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 63.1% Great: 79%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 8TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 190508040 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1053 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 4376775819 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7313 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1038 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 94 94 6 (BE) vendor-specific 69 58 555089951 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 35 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 57 57 86009 (C2) HDA temperature 31 42 64424509471 (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 129368709928390 (F1) Unknown 100 253 27740449489 (F2) Unknown 100 253 41030758657	53.6% Above average	Read 95.6 Write 90.9 Mixed 91.6 70% 92.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.33 98% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 53.6% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Nanya M2F8G64CB8HC5N-DI 2x8GB 1,156 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	58% Above average	MC Read 21.4 MC Write 21 MC Mixed 17.1 57% 19.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 20 SC Mixed 19.5 52% 18.1 GB/s	Latency 64 62% 64 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 58% Great: 60%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

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 $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