Asrock Z97M Pro4

Performance Results


Gaming 14% Tree trunk	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 12% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 67%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	13.3% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	59.4% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (85%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asrock Z97M Pro4 (all builds)
Memory	6 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140523
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 03 '17 at 22:51
Run Duration	117 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	85%

PC Performing as expected (55^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Pentium G3258-$31 23,497 User benchmarks, average bench 53% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	67% Good	Memory 92.5 1-Core 122 2-Core 236 85% 150 Pts	4-Core 243 8-Core 244 33% 244 Pts	64-Core 244 15% 244 Pts
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 67% Great: 64%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 6850 31,600 User benchmarks, average bench 12% Sapphire(174B 174B) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	13.3% Very poor	Lighting 17.4 Reflection 13.4 Parallax 14.6 14% 15.1 fps	MRender 11.5 Gravity 11.5 Splatting 17.3 11% 13.4 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 13.3% Great: 13%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 211GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 15365 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2860 (B1) Unknown 95 95 55 (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 57 47 43 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 764 (EB) Unknown 99 99 56 (F1) Unknown 99 99 32498044571	59.4% Above average	Read 258 Write 174 Mixed 181 45% 205 MB/s	4K Read 39 4K Write 60.9 4K Mixed 21.1 118% 40.4 MB/s	DQ Read 41.9 DQ Write 126 DQ Mixed 26.3 37% 64.8 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 59.4% Great: 118%
WD Blue 640GB (2008)-$33 94,563 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 25GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 155 153 5250 (04) Start/Stop count 81 81 19806 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 45 45 40397 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 7165 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 150 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 194 194 19806 (C2) HDA temperature 104 91 43 (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 200 200 269 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	37.9% Below average	Read 66.7 Write 65 Mixed 65.7 50% 65.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.84 4K Mixed 0.42 103% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 37.9% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR3 1600 2OZ 2x4GB 526 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	56.1% Above average	MC Read 18.8 MC Write 21.5 MC Mixed 17.3 55% 19.2 GB/s	SC Read 13 SC Write 20.3 SC Mixed 17.5 48% 16.9 GB/s	Latency 63.2 63% 63.2 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 56.1% Great: 60%

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Typical Z97M Pro4 Builds (Compare 277 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asrock Z97M Pro4 - $196

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	87x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	70x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	25x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	37x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	17x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	17x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	15x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	15x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	11x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	15x
i-DIMM 3x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 14 samples	10x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBG.SKILLBench 53%, 47,852 samples	9x

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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $771

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