Asus Z97-PRO (Wi-Fi ac)

Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 50% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 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 89.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	62.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	88.2% 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	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.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO (Wi-Fi ac) (all builds)
Memory	11.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140617
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 04 '17 at 16:07
Run Duration	221 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$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)	89.7% Excellent	Memory 94.8 1-Core 136 2-Core 264 92% 165 Pts	4-Core 455 8-Core 711 72% 583 Pts	64-Core 724 45% 724 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 89.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% EVGA(3842 6161) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.51 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	62.1% Good	Lighting 78.1 Reflection 77.3 Parallax 67.7 64% 74.4 fps	MRender 73.7 Gravity 70.9 Splatting 72.2 59% 72.3 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 62.1% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 SATA M.2 1TB-$65 6,111 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 271GB free (System drive) Firmware: M0C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^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 100 100 280 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 14 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 11 (AE) Unknown 100 100 10 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 54 33 287764054062 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 15899652754 (F7) Unknown 100 100 498031380 (F8) Unknown 100 100 177579991 (B4) Unknown 0 0 8756 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	88.2% Excellent	Read 483 Write 300 Mixed 195 72% 326 MB/s	4K Read 29.5 4K Write 92.8 4K Mixed 28.9 131% 50.4 MB/s	DQ Read 331 DQ Write 176 DQ Mixed 48.6 91% 185 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 88.2% Great: 104%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 3TB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 43321264 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1981 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 9209827535 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 16370 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1974 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 59 56 723583017 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 62 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2735 (C2) HDA temperature 41 44 55834574889 (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 -100850127060976 (F1) Unknown 100 253 42936136934 (F2) Unknown 100 253 67669779830	94.6% Outstanding	Read 163 Write 167 Mixed 160 123% 163 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.81 4K Mixed 0.35 104% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 94.6% Great: 113%
Seagate ST31500541AS 1.5TB 9,968 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 623GB free Firmware: CC34 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 115682167 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3690 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 53 53 6215128071779 (09) Power-on hours count 46 46 47668 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2199 (B7) Unknown 98 98 2 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065682 (BD) vendor-specific 92 92 8 (BE) vendor-specific 59 51 707002409 (C2) HDA temperature 41 49 64424509481 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 25 19 115682167 (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 45032732147973 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1293006727 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1005931652	53% Above average	Read 93.8 Write 90.8 Mixed 85.9 68% 90.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.52 116% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 53% Great: 56%
Samsung HM501II 500GB-$100 1,070 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 466GB free Firmware: 2AJ1 Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	41.1% Average	Read 79.1 Write 64.4 Mixed 48.6 48% 64 MB/s	4K Read 0.2 4K Write 0.61 4K Mixed 0.19 40% 0.33 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 41.1% Great: 46%
Seagate ST9250315AS 250GB-$20 12,691 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 233GB free Firmware: D003 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	43.2% Average	Read 75.6 Write 75 Mixed 70.5 55% 73.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.01 4K Mixed 0.4 82% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 43.2% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GB 48,796 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	61.4% Good	MC Read 21.2 MC Write 21.9 MC Mixed 19 59% 20.7 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 23.8 SC Mixed 20.3 57% 20 GB/s	Latency 57.6 70% 57.6 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 63%

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Gaming 43%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-PRO (Wi-Fi ac)

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	583x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	130x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	84x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	140x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	55x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	52x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	41x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	36x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	29x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	48x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	31x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	28x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $678

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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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