Asus Z97-E/USB 3.1

Performance Results


Gaming 63% Destroyer	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 48% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 70.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	90% 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	114% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-E/USB 3.1 (all builds)
Memory	9.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151207
Uptime	1.7 Days
Run Date	Aug 27 '17 at 11:00
Run Duration	211 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	21%

PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4590-$188 151,366 User benchmarks, average bench 63% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	70.8% Very good	Memory 83.2 1-Core 101 2-Core 204 74% 129 Pts	4-Core 345 8-Core 305 44% 325 Pts	64-Core 385 24% 385 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3233) CLim: 1545 MHz, MLim: 1802 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	90% Outstanding	Lighting 117 Reflection 118 Parallax 117 96% 117 fps	MRender 96.8 Gravity 102 Splatting 92.3 79% 97.2 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 27GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	114% Outstanding	Read 696 Write 452 Mixed 503 122% 550 MB/s	4K Read 50.4 4K Write 94.1 4K Mixed 23.3 156% 55.9 MB/s	DQ Read 340 DQ Write 259 DQ Mixed 25.3 94% 208 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 236%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 176GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 76 63 45399172 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 916 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 169888552 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 10378 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 74 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 64 46 706609188 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1330 (C2) HDA temperature 36 19 81604378660 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 1 1 45399172 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 106321915422262 (F1) Unknown 100 253 22470835725 (F2) Unknown 100 253 20516305438	88% Excellent	Read 161 Write 147 Mixed 146 114% 151 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.31 83% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 88% Great: 112%
Hitachi Travelstar 5K750 750GB-$52 41,501 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 49GB free Firmware: JE4OA50A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 54 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 166 100 77309411329 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 4898 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 1 1 44858 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 740 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 98 4776241004546 (BC) Unknown 100 100 3 (BE) vendor-specific 66 44 505872418 (BF) G-sense error rate 1 1 204358 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 7995514 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 45 45 552935 (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 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	34.3% Below average	Read 60.3 Write 59.2 Mixed 63.2 46% 60.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.32 4K Write 1.14 4K Mixed 0.17 53% 0.54 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 34.3% Great: 53%
Seagate ST9250315AS 250GB-$20 12,691 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 33GB free Firmware: 0005HPM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 95 18732489 (03) Spinup time 100 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 9002 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 298856583 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 19536 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 37 5405 (B7) Unknown 100 253 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 80 80 20 (BC) Unknown 100 99 35 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 30 57690589823008 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 256 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 45 45 111659 (C2) HDA temperature 32 70 85899345952 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 45 43 18732489 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	36.1% Below average	Read 64.8 Write 60.9 Mixed 56.5 46% 60.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 0.82 4K Mixed 0.37 74% 0.54 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 36.1% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial CT102464BA160B.M16 2x8GB 2,915 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1632 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	31.6% Below average	MC Read 10.7 MC Write 11.1 MC Mixed 8.6 29% 10.1 GB/s	SC Read 9.2 SC Write 11 SC Mixed 9.7 28% 9.97 GB/s	Latency 74.8 54% 74.8 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 31.6% Great: 61%

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Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-E/USB 3.1

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	252x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	104x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	67x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	65x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	57x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	38x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	30x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	30x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	24x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	63x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	14x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	13x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $657

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