Asus Z97-E/USB 3.1

Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 93.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	86.7% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 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, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-E/USB 3.1 (all builds)
Memory	11.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150520
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 24 '17 at 02:58
Run Duration	130 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.3% Outstanding	Memory 96.2 1-Core 137 2-Core 260 93% 164 Pts	4-Core 487 8-Core 727 76% 607 Pts	64-Core 729 45% 729 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 93.3% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 855B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1800 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	86.7% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 117 Parallax 106 92% 112 fps	MRender 94.7 Gravity 102 Splatting 83.9 76% 93.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY SSD2SC960G3CL4770D117-515 960GB 43 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 851GB free Firmware: CL411103 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^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 3692 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 605 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 34 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 36 100 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 985 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 227 (E7) Temperature 100 100 36 (E9) Unknown 0 0 0 (EA) Unknown 0 0 0 (F1) Unknown 0 0 66 (F2) Unknown 0 0 46	90.7% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 428 Mixed 437 102% 458 MB/s	4K Read 29.2 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 32.4 141% 55.5 MB/s	DQ Read 39.3 DQ Write 27.1 DQ Mixed 27.3 22% 31.2 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 90.7% Great: 105%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 264GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q 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 98 98 6022 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1190 (B1) Unknown 99 99 15 (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 64 55 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 77 77 22509 (EB) Unknown 99 99 113 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23630643941
Poor: 80% Great: 133%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$88 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC1H Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 112129820 (03) Spinup time 95 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 6094 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 4 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 150057550 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15552 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 4 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2805 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 4295033147 (BD) vendor-specific 40 40 60 (BE) vendor-specific 69 46 521666591 (C2) HDA temperature 31 54 68719476767 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 28 24 112129820 (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 -128007205274629 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2849433937 (F2) Unknown 100 253 591206749	60.8% Good	Read 104 Write 108 Mixed 101 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.54 108% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 60.8% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 122,541 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1904 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	72.5% Very good	MC Read 25.8 MC Write 26.5 MC Mixed 22.9 72% 25.1 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 22.1 62% 21.7 GB/s	Latency 53.3 75% 53.3 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 72%

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Gaming 43%

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Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-E/USB 3.1

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	252x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	104x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	67x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	65x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	57x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	38x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	30x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	30x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	24x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	63x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	14x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	13x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $657

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $275	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