Asus Z97-K

Performance Results


Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 9% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	3.36% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	33.9% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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 9 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-K (all builds)
Memory	5.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160331
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Nov 13 '17 at 11:23
Run Duration	176 Seconds
Run User	RUS-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (45^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 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	77% Very good	Memory 89.4 1-Core 108 2-Core 212 78% 136 Pts	4-Core 377 8-Core 365 50% 371 Pts	64-Core 380 24% 380 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 77% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Asus(1043 8534) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 10.18.14.4414 Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	3.36% Terrible	Lighting 3.17 Reflection 5.42 Parallax 5.09 3% 4.56 fps	MRender 7.14 Gravity 2.13 Splatting 7.91 5% 5.73 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.36% Great: 3%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 6GB free (System drive) Firmware: 527A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 16003016 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 -91620242352257 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 906 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 134 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 31 39 55837130783 (C2) HDA temperature 31 39 55837130783 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 16003016 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 16003016 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 16003016 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 9240 (EA) Unknown 0 0 8988 (F1) Unknown 0 0 8988 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5911	33.9% Below average	Read 108 Write 62.2 Mixed 83 19% 84.5 MB/s	4K Read 17.2 4K Write 50.2 4K Mixed 13.7 70% 27 MB/s	DQ Read 115 DQ Write 108 DQ Mixed 61.9 60% 95.3 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 33.9% Great: 85%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$78 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 203GB free Firmware: 82.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 176 5975 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 647 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4500 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 641 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 82 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 593 (C2) HDA temperature 120 111 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	31.8% Below average	Read 60.9 Write 49.5 Mixed 68.1 45% 59.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 2.12 4K Mixed 0.25 100% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 31.8% Great: 88%
Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate USB 3.0 16GB-$44 125 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 1GB free, PID 1656 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	28.2% Poor	Read 119 Write 32.3 Mixed 30.7 60% 60.7 MB/s	4K Read 7.35 4K Write 0.7 4K Mixed 0.64 73% 2.9 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 28.2% Great: 37%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GB 11,630 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	67.2% Good	MC Read 24 MC Write 26.7 MC Mixed 23.4 71% 24.7 GB/s	SC Read 12.8 SC Write 17.2 SC Mixed 15.3 43% 15.1 GB/s	Latency 68 59% 68 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 67.2% Great: 79%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-K - $147

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	878x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	665x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	498x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	332x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	200x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	168x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	95x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	72x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	72x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	148x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	133x
CT102464BA160B.C16 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 11,058 samples	44x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16