Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

Performance Results


Gaming 98% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90%, 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	64.6% 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.

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Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO GAMER (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 10 '17 at 14:46
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	22%

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PC Performing above expectations (64^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90% Excellent	Memory 96.8 1-Core 119 2-Core 243 87% 153 Pts	4-Core 482 8-Core 477 64% 479 Pts	64-Core 468 29% 468 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 90% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 144 Reflection 146 Parallax 125 117% 138 fps	MRender 113 Gravity 136 Splatting 107 96% 119 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 152GB free Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2044 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 672 (A5) Unknown 100 100 5832774 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 49 (A8) Unknown 100 100 8 (A9) Unknown 100 100 868 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 60 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 58 60 257698824234 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 85901180956 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1281 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1453 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1294 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2716 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	84.4% Excellent	Read 499 Write 348 Mixed 292 84% 379 MB/s	4K Read 37 4K Write 88.4 4K Mixed 12.5 119% 45.9 MB/s	DQ Read 240 DQ Write 201 DQ Mixed 39.8 79% 160 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 108%
Crucial M4 128GB-$116 34,516 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 85GB free (System drive) Firmware: 070H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^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 8270 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 9087 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 95 95 177 (AE) Unknown 100 100 289 (B5) Unknown 100 100 15019559815713 (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 81 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 373 (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 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 95 95 5 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	64.6% Good	Read 487 Write 192 Mixed 277 70% 319 MB/s	4K Read 29 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 3.38 105% 46.5 MB/s	DQ Read 109 DQ Write 111 DQ Mixed 6.78 34% 75.7 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 64.6% Great: 72%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 89GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 170 2191 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3730 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 9113 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3376 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 317 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3412 (C2) HDA temperature 107 89 36 (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	57.2% Above average	Read 97.1 Write 102 Mixed 97.7 75% 99 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.99 4K Mixed 0.21 88% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 57.2% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 20,216 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	75.7% Very good	MC Read 27.1 MC Write 28.4 MC Mixed 23.6 75% 26.4 GB/s	SC Read 19.4 SC Write 22.2 SC Mixed 23.8 62% 21.8 GB/s	Latency 51.2 78% 51.2 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 75.7% Great: 86%

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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-PRO GAMER

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,395x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	541x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	293x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	452x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	220x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	181x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	187x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	107x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	74x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	126x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	108x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	103x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $35	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