Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battleship	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	78.3% 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	97.7% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Sub-optimal background CPU (20%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO GAMER (all builds)
Memory	11.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150521
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 24 '17 at 04:59
Run Duration	141 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	20%

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PC Performing as expected (47^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	86.7% Excellent	Memory 96 1-Core 130 2-Core 251 90% 159 Pts	4-Core 446 8-Core 458 60% 452 Pts	64-Core 473 29% 473 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8596) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing below potential (42^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	78.3% Very good	Lighting 97.2 Reflection 110 Parallax 93.8 79% 100 fps	MRender 95 Gravity 90.7 Splatting 94.6 77% 93.4 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 348GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2537 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 720 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (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 71 60 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 4 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6493270972	98.1% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 415 Mixed 250 87% 393 MB/s	4K Read 44.6 4K Write 94.4 4K Mixed 18.9 142% 52.6 MB/s	DQ Read 291 DQ Write 231 DQ Mixed 119 128% 214 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 98.1% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 309GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4543 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1361 (B1) Unknown 98 98 26 (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 68 56 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 9 (EB) Unknown 99 99 41 (F1) Unknown 99 99 27252572452	97.7% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 413 Mixed 246 86% 391 MB/s	4K Read 42.2 4K Write 90.1 4K Mixed 21.1 139% 51.2 MB/s	DQ Read 290 DQ Write 242 DQ Mixed 119 129% 217 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 97.7% Great: 134%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 605GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 81 63 160036296 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 546 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 3787665 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1744 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 505 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 68 61 538181664 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 546 (C2) HDA temperature 32 12 51539607584 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 1 1 160036296 (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 136549895243436 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1822645313 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1794481506	72.4% Very good	Read 106 Write 147 Mixed 119 93% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.29 82% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 72.4% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 122,541 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	69.3% Good	MC Read 24 MC Write 25.5 MC Mixed 22.5 69% 24 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 22.7 SC Mixed 20.8 58% 20.3 GB/s	Latency 54.1 74% 54.1 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 69.3% Great: 72%

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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	1,397x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	541x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	293x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	453x
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 $109Bench 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 $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