Asus Z97-C

Performance Results


Gaming 64% Destroyer	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	66.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	153% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 9 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

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-C (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160310
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 04 '17 at 10:48
Run Duration	148 Seconds
Run User	BEL-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (67^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)	90.9% Outstanding	Memory 96 1-Core 130 2-Core 254 90% 160 Pts	4-Core 494 8-Core 504 66% 499 Pts	64-Core 513 32% 513 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 90.9% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Asus(1043 8506) CLim: 1463 MHz, MLim: 1757 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	66.1% Good	Lighting 85 Reflection 84.6 Parallax 76.4 69% 82 fps	MRender 80.3 Gravity 75.4 Splatting 66.8 60% 74.2 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 500GB 13,939 User benchmarks, average bench 179% 62GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	153% Outstanding	Read 1,002 Write 954 Mixed 996 220% 984 MB/s	4K Read 38.8 4K Write 79.8 4K Mixed 37.8 150% 52.1 MB/s	DQ Read 216 DQ Write 211 DQ Mixed 88.2 101% 172 MB/s
Poor: 82% ↑ This bench: 153% Great: 313%
Seagate ST31000333AS 1TB-$750 12,067 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 332GB free Firmware: SD3B Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 104460647 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4591 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 77 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 44163670 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14624 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 55 (0C) Power cycle count 99 37 1580 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 137441050660 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 218 (BE) vendor-specific 66 42 9028593057826 (C2) HDA temperature 34 58 68719476770 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 39 19 104460647 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 177 17471	48.8% Average	Read 73.4 Write 96.4 Mixed 77 62% 82.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.32 84% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 48.8% Great: 66%
Seagate ST3500830AS 500GB-$145 6,517 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 175GB free Firmware: 3.AA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 95 214767538 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7767 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 4942743433 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 18905 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2798 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 130 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 45 622198821 (C2) HDA temperature 37 55 60129542181 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 59 53 37552587 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 252 1	25.6% Poor	Read 43 Write 46.2 Mixed 41.8 33% 43.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.15 4K Mixed 0.33 74% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 25.6% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 2,161 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	72.4% Very good	MC Read 25.3 MC Write 26.6 MC Mixed 23.3 72% 25.1 GB/s	SC Read 18.4 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 22.6 62% 21.8 GB/s	Latency 54.1 74% 54.1 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 72.4% Great: 71%

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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	33x
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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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