Asus Z97-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 88% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 81.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	108% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	92% 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 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-AR (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140508
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Sep 14 '17 at 02:58
Run Duration	141 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	81.5% Excellent	Memory 91 1-Core 116 2-Core 238 84% 148 Pts	4-Core 389 8-Core 573 60% 481 Pts	64-Core 602 37% 602 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 81.5% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Zotac(19DA 3426) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 144 Reflection 147 Parallax 136 117% 142 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 137 Splatting 107 97% 119 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 25GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3630 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 966 (B1) Unknown 98 98 30 (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 61 50 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 44 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11413180698	92% Outstanding	Read 498 Write 401 Mixed 416 98% 438 MB/s	4K Read 39.6 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 20.9 141% 54.4 MB/s	DQ Read 36.5 DQ Write 269 DQ Mixed 21.9 56% 109 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 92% Great: 124%
Seagate ST3250310AS 250GB-$44 34,705 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 38GB free Firmware: 3.AAC Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 95 227879641 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4413 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 82596707 (09) Power-on hours count 59 59 36092 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 99 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3273 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 23092 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 56 49 790167596 (C2) HDA temperature 44 51 73014444076 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 67 55 204863495 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 8 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 8 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	38.9% Below average	Read 63.6 Write 71.8 Mixed 74.3 53% 69.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.12 4K Mixed 0.43 100% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 38.9% Great: 54%
WD My Passport 0810 1TB 5,284 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 308GB free, PID 0810 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	35.3% Below average	Read 90.3 Write 79.2 Mixed 82.9 107% 84.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.18 61% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 35.3% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsZ DDR3 1866 C8 4x4GB 432 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1867 MHz clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (38^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	57.3% Above average	MC Read 20.5 MC Write 21.1 MC Mixed 16.7 56% 19.4 GB/s	SC Read 15.7 SC Write 21.7 SC Mixed 19.2 54% 18.9 GB/s	Latency 65.8 61% 65.8 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 57.3% Great: 109%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97-AR - $140

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	563x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	325x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	95x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	183x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	87x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	67x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	54x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	36x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	56x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	55x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	38x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $788

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16