Asrock Z97 Extreme4

Performance Results


Gaming 61% Destroyer	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 52% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 88.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	65.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	101% 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.

Motherboard	Asrock Z97 Extreme4 (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151012
Uptime	9.1 Days
Run Date	Sep 24 '17 at 18:19
Run Duration	105 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	88.5% Excellent	Memory 96.5 1-Core 124 2-Core 244 88% 155 Pts	4-Core 434 8-Core 663 68% 549 Pts	64-Core 663 41% 663 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-X-$781 8,241 User benchmarks, average bench 59% AMD(1002 0B36) CLim: 1050 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.9.1 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	65.5% Good	Lighting 82.5 Reflection 59.8 Parallax 120 67% 87.3 fps	MRender 59.4 Gravity 91.1 Splatting 75.9 62% 75.4 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 65.5% Great: 65%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 429GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1147 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1145 (B1) Unknown 99 99 6 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 59 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 55 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6982504356	101% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 410 Mixed 421 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 46.4 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 29.9 165% 60.7 MB/s	DQ Read 47.2 DQ Write 288 DQ Mixed 39.3 68% 125 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 134%
Hitachi HUS724030ALE641 3TB 13,833 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 2.5TB free Firmware: MJ8OA5F0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 136 83 (03) Spinup time 131 131 38686753233 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 115 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 119 119 35 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 17434 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 83 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 165 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 165 (C2) HDA temperature 206 206 197569675293 (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 200 200 0	88.3% Excellent	Read 140 Write 168 Mixed 166 120% 158 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 2.38 4K Mixed 0.22 108% 1.18 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 88.3% Great: 89%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1866EL Series 4x4GB 425 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	70.4% Very good	MC Read 25.2 MC Write 25.6 MC Mixed 21.3 69% 24 GB/s	SC Read 18.6 SC Write 23.2 SC Mixed 24 63% 21.9 GB/s	Latency 52 77% 52 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 70.4% Great: 96%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z97 Extreme4 - $129

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	474x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	286x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	99x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	154x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	78x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	66x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	55x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	38x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	36x

RAM
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	43x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	39x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	24x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $777

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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