Asus Z97-P

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


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 93.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Boot Drive	70.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-P (all builds)
Memory	28.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160311
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 14 '17 at 19:47
Run Duration	170 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

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, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.5% Outstanding	Memory 94.6 1-Core 129 2-Core 260 90% 161 Pts	4-Core 504 8-Core 680 75% 592 Pts	64-Core 682 42% 682 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Asus(1043 8534) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4531 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 3% Great: 3%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel SSDSCKGW180A4 180GB 178 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 22GB free (System drive) Firmware: DC31 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 4 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -40510131530818 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1937 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 2 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 372 (B7) Unknown 100 100 11 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 53 59 1009321181237 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 372 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 642136 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 37 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 90 90 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 642136 (F2) Unknown 100 100 379015 (F9) Unknown 100 100 56335	70.9% Very good	Read 465 Write 165 Mixed 252 64% 294 MB/s	4K Read 36.2 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 14.3 135% 55.8 MB/s	DQ Read 26.2 DQ Write 154 DQ Mixed 48.1 49% 76 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 82%
Seagate ST4000LM016-1N2170 4TB 2,075 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 2.5TB free Firmware: 0003 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 126 100 1150905077 (03) Spinup time 100 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 526 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 51 51 176099364252 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 -11355893527382 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 526 (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 72 50 471334940 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 51 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5067 (C2) HDA temperature 28 50 68719476764 (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 128930623261288 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3122002084 (F2) Unknown 100 253 261774786	60.3% Good	Read 121 Write 87.2 Mixed 63.7 67% 90.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.96 4K Write 6.76 4K Mixed 0.57 229% 2.77 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 60.3% Great: 66%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 2TB-$105 4,536 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 790GB free Firmware: 1AN10003 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 47 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 72 37 8631 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4196 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 15003 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2173 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1528 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 64 184684576798 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 38 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 101 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 88 88 124890	58.5% Above average	Read 87.8 Write 116 Mixed 75 69% 93 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.34 92% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 58.5% Great: 59%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$40 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 168GB free Firmware: 05.00K05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 199 22683 (03) Spinup time 246 231 7666 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9094 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 44 44 41111 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3887 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 125 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9093 (C2) HDA temperature 116 108 34 (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	58.6% Above average	Read 109 Write 94.5 Mixed 98.6 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 2.26 4K Mixed 0.38 115% 1.12 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 58.6% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 4x8GB 8,984 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	61.4% Good	MC Read 21.6 MC Write 21.7 MC Mixed 18.5 59% 20.6 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 23.4 SC Mixed 20.9 59% 20.5 GB/s	Latency 58.1 69% 58.1 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 63%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97-P - $110

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	971x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	673x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	319x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	479x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	220x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	219x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	175x
SSDNow V300 240GBKingston $35Bench 64%, 176,713 samples	99x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	85x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	158x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	113x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	74x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $758

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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