Asus Z97-C

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 63% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 90.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	79.5% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	95.6% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia 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.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-C (all builds)
Memory	23.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150305
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 28 '17 at 01:24
Run Duration	136 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	24%

PC Performing above expectations (63^rd 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% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.3% Outstanding	Memory 96.2 1-Core 127 2-Core 258 90% 161 Pts	4-Core 461 8-Core 624 69% 543 Pts	64-Core 665 41% 665 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 90.3% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX Titan X-$615 15,621 User benchmarks, average bench 75% Asus(1043 8539) CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	79.5% Very good	Lighting 103 Reflection 111 Parallax 110 84% 108 fps	MRender 88.1 Gravity 94 Splatting 80.6 71% 87.6 fps
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 79.5% Great: 83%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Plextor M6e PCIe M.2 256GB-$208 1,444 User benchmarks, average bench 117% 44GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.05 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^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 6409 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 832 (B1) Unknown 100 100 387513 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 32 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1240641 (F2) Unknown 100 100 836063	95.6% Outstanding	Read 653 Write 548 Mixed 566 131% 589 MB/s	4K Read 26.4 4K Write 62.2 4K Mixed 22.1 101% 36.9 MB/s	DQ Read 192 DQ Write 66.7 DQ Mixed 75.1 70% 111 MB/s
Poor: 87% ↑ This bench: 95.6% Great: 129%
WD Black 3TB (2013)-$151 16,992 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2TB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 153 143 11325 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1862 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 3884 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 412 (10) Unknown 10 190 181417506280 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 15 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1846 (C2) HDA temperature 104 99 48 (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	89.9% Excellent	Read 160 Write 153 Mixed 151 116% 155 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.99 4K Mixed 0.23 115% 1.34 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 100%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 374GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 168 2183 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6598 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6469 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 824 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 31 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6566 (C2) HDA temperature 108 101 35 (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	82.4% Excellent	Read 157 Write 130 Mixed 139 107% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 2.15 4K Mixed 0.14 81% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 2400 C11 4x8GB 5,910 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	77.8% Very good	MC Read 28.1 MC Write 29 MC Mixed 24.7 78% 27.3 GB/s	SC Read 19.1 SC Write 23.8 SC Mixed 24.5 64% 22.5 GB/s	Latency 53.2 75% 53.2 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 109%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-C - $256

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	239x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	172x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	85x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	76x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	51x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	49x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	32x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	23x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	21x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	40x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	30x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 58%, 8,730 samples	25x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $913

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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