Asrock Z97 Extreme6

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 65% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 87.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	89% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asrock Z97 Extreme6 (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20151006
Uptime	2.6 Days
Run Date	Feb 25 '17 at 20:56
Run Duration	175 Seconds
Run User	SVN-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	87.7% Excellent	Memory 95.7 1-Core 117 2-Core 241 86% 151 Pts	4-Core 430 8-Core 620 66% 525 Pts	64-Core 627 39% 627 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 87.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36B6) CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.66 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89% Excellent	Lighting 116 Reflection 119 Parallax 108 94% 114 fps	MRender 96.9 Gravity 105 Splatting 88.7 79% 96.9 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 178GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10516 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2045 (B1) Unknown 94 94 66 (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 65 51 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 408 (F1) Unknown 99 99 42774599997
Poor: 64% Great: 118%
Corsair Force 120GB 1,958 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 49GB free Firmware: 2.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3607706 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -35699768144659 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3990 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 300 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 28 48 55837720604 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 3607706 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 21440 (EA) Unknown 0 0 22720 (F1) Unknown 0 0 22720 (F2) Unknown 0 0 25728	39% Below average	Read 189 Write 94.2 Mixed 113 29% 132 MB/s	4K Read 22.7 4K Write 53.9 4K Mixed 14.5 82% 30.4 MB/s	DQ Read 22.4 DQ Write 55.9 DQ Mixed 9.97 16% 29.4 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 39% Great: 56%
WD WD3000GLFS-01F8U0 300GB 3,689 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 90GB free Firmware: 03.03V01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 200 198 2966 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8771 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 54 54 33681 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6684 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 449 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8778 (C2) HDA temperature 116 96 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	45.8% Average	Read 81 Write 78 Mixed 82.2 61% 80.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 2.7 4K Mixed 0.53 137% 1.3 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 45.8% Great: 68%
WD Blue 640GB (2008)-$33 94,563 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 44GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 158 156 5091 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8384 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 54 54 33604 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6666 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 882 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8384 (C2) HDA temperature 118 95 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	59% Above average	Read 102 Write 103 Mixed 91.5 74% 98.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.24 4K Mixed 0.4 116% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 59% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLT8G3D1608ET3LX0. 2x8GB 3,774 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	61.9% Good	MC Read 21.3 MC Write 22.1 MC Mixed 19.3 60% 20.9 GB/s	SC Read 17 SC Write 21.8 SC Mixed 20 56% 19.6 GB/s	Latency 55 73% 55 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 61.9% Great: 65%

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Gaming 43%

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Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z97 Extreme6 - $220

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	555x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	146x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	77x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	127x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	77x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	54x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	38x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	31x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	25x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	25x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 51%, 21,220 samples	24x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	24x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $877

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