Asus Z97-K

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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 91.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	84.4% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	95.6% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-K (all builds)
Memory	6.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160331
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 21 '17 at 18:15
Run Duration	141 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	12%

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PC Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.8% Outstanding	Memory 95.6 1-Core 126 2-Core 254 89% 159 Pts	4-Core 507 8-Core 517 68% 512 Pts	64-Core 516 32% 516 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 91.8% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 119D) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.66 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	84.4% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 116 Parallax 98.6 86% 107 fps	MRender 98.7 Gravity 96.4 Splatting 102 81% 98.9 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 76GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7337 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3231 (B1) Unknown 96 96 47 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 62 53 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 5 (EB) Unknown 99 99 814 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15410508466	95.6% Outstanding	Read 495 Write 345 Mixed 338 87% 393 MB/s	4K Read 46.4 4K Write 86.2 4K Mixed 22.4 145% 51.7 MB/s	DQ Read 338 DQ Write 242 DQ Mixed 21.6 89% 200 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 95.6% Great: 108%
AMD Radeon R3 120GB 3,248 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 45GB free Firmware: P0422C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 357 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 283 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 98 (A3) Unknown 100 100 54 (A4) Unknown 100 100 3820 (A5) Unknown 100 100 6 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 2 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 5618 (F2) Unknown 100 100 9171 (F5) Unknown 100 100 7640	63.3% Good	Read 492 Write 179 Mixed 219 65% 297 MB/s	4K Read 30.4 4K Write 65.5 4K Mixed 13.8 98% 36.6 MB/s	DQ Read 31 DQ Write 168 DQ Mixed 13.9 36% 71 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 63.3% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 919GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 121820804 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 8048 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 57 51 313574031519 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9085 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4603 (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 68 53 538902560 (C2) HDA temperature 32 47 60129542176 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 34 21 121820804 (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 40570261100370 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3751022867 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1569128233	70.1% Very good	Read 120 Write 124 Mixed 118 91% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 1.84 4K Mixed 0.63 138% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CM3X4GBA1600C9V4 2x4GB 117 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	64.9% Good	MC Read 22.3 MC Write 23.2 MC Mixed 20.5 63% 22 GB/s	SC Read 18 SC Write 23.9 SC Mixed 20.5 59% 20.8 GB/s	Latency 55.4 72% 55.4 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 64.9% Great: 65%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

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Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-K - $147

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	875x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	663x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	498x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	332x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	200x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	167x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	95x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	72x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	71x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	148x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	133x
CT102464BA160B.C16 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 11,058 samples	44x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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