Asus Z97-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 100% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 78% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 92.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	107% 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	81.4% 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 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-AR (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140508
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 21 '17 at 09:56
Run Duration	133 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (69^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 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.8% Outstanding	Memory 96.2 1-Core 130 2-Core 260 91% 162 Pts	4-Core 517 8-Core 515 69% 516 Pts	64-Core 516 32% 516 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 92.8% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 85E8) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Lighting 137 Reflection 161 Parallax 140 112% 146 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 145 Splatting 114 102% 126 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 106GB free Firmware: X41200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 188 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 199 (A5) Unknown 100 100 2555929 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 24 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 195 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 160 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 69 64 274879348767 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 30064771079 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 218 (EA) Unknown 100 100 260 (F1) Unknown 253 253 249 (F2) Unknown 253 253 287 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	82.7% Excellent	Read 494 Write 256 Mixed 204 70% 318 MB/s	4K Read 38.9 4K Write 80.3 4K Mixed 21.4 129% 46.9 MB/s	DQ Read 295 DQ Write 145 DQ Mixed 38.5 77% 159 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 101%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 102GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 20086 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 765 (B1) Unknown 94 94 69 (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 66 56 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 315 (F1) Unknown 99 99 29230449816	81.4% Excellent	Read 509 Write 352 Mixed 272 83% 377 MB/s	4K Read 44.6 4K Write 77.1 4K Mixed 2.33 111% 41.3 MB/s	DQ Read 237 DQ Write 201 DQ Mixed 53.3 85% 164 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 81.4% Great: 118%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 641GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 174 2191 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3264 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 17703 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 640 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 154 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3139 (C2) HDA temperature 104 101 39 (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	87% Excellent	Read 179 Write 124 Mixed 118 105% 140 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 2.92 4K Mixed 0.25 102% 1.22 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown BLS4G3D169DS3J.8FN 1315 BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 1315 BLS4G3D169DS3J.8FN 1315 BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 16GB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	75.9% Very good	MC Read 26.8 MC Write 28.6 MC Mixed 23.9 76% 26.4 GB/s	SC Read 19.3 SC Write 24.4 SC Mixed 24 64% 22.6 GB/s	Latency 53.3 75% 53.3 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 75.9% Great: 76%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-AR - $140

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	560x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	320x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	95x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	182x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	85x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	66x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	53x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	36x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	56x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	55x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	38x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $788

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) $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