Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

Performance Results


Gaming 120% UFO	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 102% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 90.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	132% 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	235% 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.

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Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO GAMER (all builds)
Memory	11.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Oct 04 '17 at 19:17
Run Duration	238 Seconds
Run User	DNK-User
Background CPU	22%

PC Performing above expectations (74^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 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.7% Outstanding	Memory 96.4 1-Core 137 2-Core 267 94% 167 Pts	4-Core 458 8-Core 724 73% 591 Pts	64-Core 725 45% 725 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 90.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Nvidia(10DE 120F) CLim: 2050 MHz, MLim: 2852 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	132% Outstanding	Lighting 185 Reflection 213 Parallax 182 151% 193 fps	MRender 136 Gravity 179 Splatting 130 120% 148 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 132% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 266GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	235% Outstanding	Read 1,948 Write 1,295 Mixed 1,175 326% 1,473 MB/s	4K Read 49.8 4K Write 121 4K Mixed 48.3 202% 73.1 MB/s	DQ Read 515 DQ Write 256 DQ Mixed 168 183% 313 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 235% Great: 254%
Samsung PM830 128GB 13,767 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 117GB free Firmware: CXM02K1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7711 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2036 (B1) Unknown 97 97 82 (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 65 47 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 38 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8818266834	72.8% Very good	Read 494 Write 299 Mixed 380 87% 391 MB/s	4K Read 22.1 4K Write 60.6 4K Mixed 18.9 90% 33.9 MB/s	DQ Read 279 DQ Write 79.4 DQ Mixed 64.1 77% 141 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 72.8% Great: 73%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 92GB free Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 3826194 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 -15006615731130 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 128 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 0 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 35 47 1013615362083 (C2) HDA temperature 35 47 1013615362083 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3826194 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3826194 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3826194 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 25769803777 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4294964646 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1542 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1542 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1450 (F4) Unknown 97 97 7143529	46.9% Average	Read 488 Write 154 Mixed 192 60% 278 MB/s	4K Read 19.9 4K Write 16.9 4K Mixed 10.4 52% 15.7 MB/s	DQ Read 72.9 DQ Write 43 DQ Mixed 24.2 27% 46.7 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 46.9% Great: 85%
HyperX Savage 240GB-$120 39,518 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 34GB free Firmware: SAFM00.Y Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (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 100 100 2658 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 390 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 625 (AD) Unknown 100 100 458767 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 12 (C2) HDA temperature 65 53 201864642595 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1918 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1692 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2521 (F4) Unknown 100 100 7 (F5) Unknown 100 100 15 (F6) Unknown 100 100 519424	98.2% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 499 Mixed 506 113% 505 MB/s	4K Read 26.4 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 13.9 112% 47.8 MB/s	DQ Read 348 DQ Write 343 DQ Mixed 14.4 102% 235 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 98.2% Great: 111%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 114544096 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1877 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 40353750 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6277 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1129 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 12885164038 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 62 55 638779430 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 58 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 64 64 73263 (C2) HDA temperature 38 45 47244640294 (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 138804753075838 (F1) Unknown 100 253 25180159406 (F2) Unknown 100 253 238281991649	97% Outstanding	Read 192 Write 147 Mixed 149 122% 163 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.24 4K Mixed 0.17 60% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 97% Great: 113%
WD WD10EACS-00ZJB0 1TB 28,352 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 254GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 167 159 6616 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7340 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 17581 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5969 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 139 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7329 (C2) HDA temperature 111 102 39 (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	40.8% Average	Read 75.1 Write 66.9 Mixed 63.4 51% 68.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.32 4K Write 1.79 4K Mixed 0.22 71% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 40.8% Great: 51%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GB 6,948 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	69.9% Good	MC Read 24.6 MC Write 25.7 MC Mixed 21.5 68% 23.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 25.3 SC Mixed 21.6 62% 21.5 GB/s	Latency 52.4 76% 52.4 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 71%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

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Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,398x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	542x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	293x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	454x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	220x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	181x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	187x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	107x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	74x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	126x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	108x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	103x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

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