Asus Z97I-PLUS

Performance Results


Gaming 8% Tree trunk	Desktop 45% Yacht	Workstation 7% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (36th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 64 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 47.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	4.01% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	67.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus Z97I-PLUS (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140530
Uptime	1.9 Days
Run Date	Jul 17 '17 at 14:15
Run Duration	139 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	100%

PC Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790S-$60 13,224 User benchmarks, average bench 72% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 0.75 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	47.4% Average	Memory 82.8 1-Core 16.9 2-Core 33.9 35% 44.5 Pts	4-Core 68.5 8-Core 117 11% 92.7 Pts	64-Core 129 8% 129 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 47.4% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GT 630 60,212 User benchmarks, average bench 4% EVGA(3842 2631) 1GB CLim: 810 MHz, MLim: 400 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	4.01% Terrible	Lighting 4.97 Reflection 5.65 Parallax 3.91 4% 4.84 fps	MRender 6.48 Gravity 4.93 Splatting 3.57 4% 4.99 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 4.01% Great: 5%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 132GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3760 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 914 (B1) Unknown 97 97 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 53 48 47 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 12 (F1) Unknown 99 99 22048923578	67.4% Good	Read 476 Write 393 Mixed 413 95% 427 MB/s	4K Read 24.5 4K Write 36.2 4K Mixed 13.6 74% 24.8 MB/s	DQ Read 72.3 DQ Write 49.5 DQ Mixed 22 27% 48 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 67.4% Great: 124%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 394GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 168 163 6591 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6652 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 25436 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1853 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 169 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 165 165 107509 (C2) HDA temperature 109 100 41 (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	46.9% Average	Read 72.6 Write 90.7 Mixed 85.5 63% 82.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.24 74% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 46.9% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 40,596 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2448 MHz Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	56.4% Above average	MC Read 20.2 MC Write 22.4 MC Mixed 23.2 63% 21.9 GB/s	SC Read 7 SC Write 5.3 SC Mixed 7 18% 6.43 GB/s	Latency 75.5 53% 75.5 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 56.4% Great: 85%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 9%

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Desktop 72%

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Workstation 8%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Asus Z97I-PLUS - $200

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	233x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	102x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	51x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	66x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	63x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	40x

SSD
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	27x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	21x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	18x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	32x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	28x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	28x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $658

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