Asrock Z97 Anniversary

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (84th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 16 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 87.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	89.6% 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	110% 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	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z97 Anniversary (all builds)
Memory	10 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160527
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 05 '17 at 21:56
Run Duration	185 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing above expectations (84^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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.4% Excellent	Memory 95.8 1-Core 117 2-Core 231 85% 148 Pts	4-Core 457 8-Core 460 61% 459 Pts	64-Core 465 29% 465 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.6% Excellent	Lighting 114 Reflection 118 Parallax 111 93% 114 fps	MRender 97.5 Gravity 102 Splatting 103 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 115GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4110 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 144 (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 64 51 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 59 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8052258103	110% Outstanding	Read 498 Write 406 Mixed 419 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 34.4 4K Write 97.5 4K Mixed 47.5 165% 59.8 MB/s	DQ Read 357 DQ Write 267 DQ Mixed 120 142% 248 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 124%
Seagate ST9250315AS 1TB 597GB free Firmware: 02.01A02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 190 188 1500 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4733 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3637 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 387 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 36 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 14883 (C2) HDA temperature 119 104 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 508	34.6% Below average	Read 84.6 Write 36.2 Mixed 54.5 44% 58.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 0.43 4K Mixed 0.11 39% 0.33 MB/s

WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 168GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 22 (03) Spinup time 171 170 2441 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2195 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 21231 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 530 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 224 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2246 (C2) HDA temperature 115 104 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 182 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 182 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 148 0	95.3% Outstanding	Read 177 Write 155 Mixed 147 120% 160 MB/s	4K Read 1.31 4K Write 2.7 4K Mixed 0.3 138% 1.44 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 95.3% Great: 109%
Seagate ST9250315AS 250GB-$20 12,691 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 39GB free Firmware: D005DEM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 203366726 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2336 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4603769 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 12210 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 483 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 50 488308765 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 3 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 12 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 282212 (C2) HDA temperature 29 50 85899345949 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 49 43 203366726 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 82978768164898 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3893716414 (F2) Unknown 100 253 921167303 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	35.5% Below average	Read 50.8 Write 72.9 Mixed 59 46% 60.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.4 84% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 35.5% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 3x4GB 945 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 3 of 4 slots used 12GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	63.7% Good	MC Read 22 MC Write 23.1 MC Mixed 19.9 62% 21.7 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 21.9 SC Mixed 19.9 56% 19.7 GB/s	Latency 54.7 73% 54.7 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 63.7% Great: 61%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z97 Anniversary - $120

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	325x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	243x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	112x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	140x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	96x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	77x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	69x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	56x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	40x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	36x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	36x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	29x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $768

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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