Asrock Z97 Extreme4

Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 100% UFO	Workstation 54% 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 98.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	62.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	69.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z97 Extreme4 (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors, 3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160727
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 19 '17 at 08:08
Run Duration	186 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

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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 i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	98.3% Outstanding	Memory 98.6 1-Core 143 2-Core 286 98% 176 Pts	4-Core 565 8-Core 569 76% 567 Pts	64-Core 568 35% 568 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 98.3% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 480-$75 261,163 User benchmarks, average bench 46% Sapphire(174B E347) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 2150 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.7 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	62.8% Good	Lighting 80.6 Reflection 75.9 Parallax 94.5 66% 83.7 fps	MRender 76.4 Gravity 75 Splatting 61.8 57% 71.1 fps
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 62.8% Great: 53%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Vector 150 240GB-$246 1,607 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 147GB free Firmware: 1.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 1 1 1 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 10184 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 10410 (AB) Unknown 80 80 80902992 (AE) Unknown 100 100 6506 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 1 (D0) Spin buzz 100 100 68 (D2) Unknown 100 100 16 (E0) Load friction 100 100 1 (E9) Unknown 98 98 98 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3758 (F2) Unknown 100 100 5333 (F9) Unknown 100 100 164179036	106% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 494 Mixed 498 112% 503 MB/s	4K Read 24.2 4K Write 132 4K Mixed 21.8 134% 59.2 MB/s	DQ Read 339 DQ Write 362 DQ Mixed 21.6 107% 241 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 110%
PNY SSD2SC120G1SA754D117-820 120GB 1,827 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 77GB free (System drive) Firmware: N0815B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 910 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 11161 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 342 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 35 100 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 8785 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 104 (E7) Temperature 100 100 35 (E9) Unknown 0 0 5 (EA) Unknown 0 0 14 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1004 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1215	69.8% Good	Read 507 Write 152 Mixed 232 65% 297 MB/s	4K Read 27 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 20.4 127% 53.3 MB/s	DQ Read 28.9 DQ Write 119 DQ Mixed 57.5 49% 68.4 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 69.8% Great: 83%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 644GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 167 2266 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2220 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 13456 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1871 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 656 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1629 (C2) HDA temperature 117 105 26 (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	93.6% Outstanding	Read 175 Write 151 Mixed 143 117% 156 MB/s	4K Read 1.15 4K Write 2.36 4K Mixed 0.24 118% 1.25 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 93.6% Great: 109%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 503GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 168 2400 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7580 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 10958 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6892 (C0) Power-off retract count 193 193 5794 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1791 (C2) HDA temperature 116 104 27 (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	81.2% Excellent	Read 144 Write 139 Mixed 128 103% 137 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 2.22 4K Mixed 0.3 105% 1.09 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 81.2% Great: 108%
WD WD3000GLFS-01F8U0 300GB 3,689 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 279GB free Firmware: 03.03V01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 198 197 3066 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6603 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10428 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6028 (C0) Power-off retract count 194 194 4987 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6603 (C2) HDA temperature 120 106 27 (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	66.2% Good	Read 111 Write 119 Mixed 111 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 2.05 4K Mixed 0.62 135% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 66.2% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 2400 C11 4x4GB 5,522 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2600 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	90.9% Outstanding	MC Read 29.1 MC Write 36.9 MC Mixed 29 90% 31.7 GB/s	SC Read 24.3 SC Write 26.5 SC Mixed 28.7 76% 26.5 GB/s	Latency 43.1 93% 43.1 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 90.9% Great: 91%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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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