Asrock Z97X Killer

Performance Results


Gaming 105% UFO	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 87% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (44th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 56 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	122% 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	97% 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	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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z97X Killer (all builds)
Memory	11.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151012
Uptime	5.5 Days
Run Date	Apr 28 '17 at 06:06
Run Duration	158 Seconds
Run User	JPN-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing as expected (44^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	87.4% Excellent	Memory 89.6 1-Core 123 2-Core 247 86% 153 Pts	4-Core 459 8-Core 659 70% 559 Pts	64-Core 657 41% 657 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3602) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing below potential (40^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	122% Outstanding	Lighting 165 Reflection 199 Parallax 196 134% 186 fps	MRender 127 Gravity 178 Splatting 122 115% 142 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 207GB free Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	116% Outstanding	Read 699 Write 523 Mixed 537 130% 586 MB/s	4K Read 41.9 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 42.4 174% 63.3 MB/s	DQ Read 42.5 DQ Write 113 DQ Mixed 21.1 32% 58.8 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 254%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 97GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7708 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 381 (B1) Unknown 99 99 12 (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 68 55 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 4 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8746208607	95.3% Outstanding	Read 503 Write 403 Mixed 413 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 46.4 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 28.6 160% 58.6 MB/s	DQ Read 46.6 DQ Write 110 DQ Mixed 115 77% 90.8 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 95.3% Great: 134%
Crucial M550 512GB-$283 5,683 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 96GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^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 5158 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 570 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 91 91 289 (AE) Unknown 100 100 27 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4403 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 72 55 193273856028 (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 91 91 9 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 86299025744 (F7) Unknown 100 100 2716906617 (F8) Unknown 100 100 6778210646	97% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 469 Mixed 479 109% 487 MB/s	4K Read 30 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 31.5 148% 59.5 MB/s	DQ Read 31 DQ Write 128 DQ Mixed 21 33% 60.1 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 97% Great: 111%
Toshiba MD04ACA300 3TB-$40 151 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 400GB free Firmware: FP2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1323 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1446 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 13609 (0A) Spinup retry count 128 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 569 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 12 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 27 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 2816 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 219043528739 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 70 70 12030 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 196 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	79.4% Very good	Read 149 Write 127 Mixed 116 98% 131 MB/s	4K Read 0.91 4K Write 2.13 4K Mixed 0.23 103% 1.09 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 79.4% Great: 101%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 10,062 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	51.1% Above average	MC Read 17.8 MC Write 18.5 MC Mixed 15.7 50% 17.3 GB/s	SC Read 13.6 SC Write 18.2 SC Mixed 15.9 45% 15.9 GB/s	Latency 67.8 59% 67.8 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 51.1% Great: 63%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 37%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asrock Z97X Killer - $195

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	353x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	111x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	57x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	98x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	50x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	49x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	27x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	26x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	26x

RAM
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	33x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	27x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	25x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $882

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $168	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16