Asus Z97M-PLUS/BR

Performance Results


Gaming 94% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 74% Battleship


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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	105% 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	65.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
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.

Motherboard	Asus Z97M-PLUS/BR (all builds)
Memory	6.2 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160222
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 07 '17 at 05:49
Run Duration	114 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

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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 i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90% Excellent	Memory 94.9 1-Core 124 2-Core 245 87% 154 Pts	4-Core 491 8-Core 492 66% 492 Pts	64-Core 492 30% 492 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 90% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6582) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.43 Performing below potential (71^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	105% Outstanding	Lighting 136 Reflection 146 Parallax 127 111% 136 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 130 Splatting 107 96% 118 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 130GB free (System drive) Firmware: 605ABBF2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 9309944 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 85856396249495 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 997 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 249 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 37 47 64427589669 (C2) HDA temperature 37 47 64427589669 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 9309944 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 9309944 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 9309944 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 77309411328 (E9) Unknown 0 0 6773 (EA) Unknown 0 0 5691 (F1) Unknown 0 0 5691 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7173 (F4) Unknown 100 100 2686999	65.9% Good	Read 493 Write 229 Mixed 292 74% 338 MB/s	4K Read 24.1 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 11.3 105% 45.6 MB/s	DQ Read 25.7 DQ Write 85.1 DQ Mixed 11.1 21% 40.6 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 85%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 1TB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 144134768 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2751 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 12465905 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2536 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 982 (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 65 56 588709923 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 65 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 10466 (C2) HDA temperature 35 44 55834574883 (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 121238336832094 (F1) Unknown 100 253 14958993647 (F2) Unknown 100 253 55634859428	81.5% Excellent	Read 166 Write 119 Mixed 132 104% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 0.13 61% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 81.5% Great: 96%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLT4G3D1608DT2TXRG 2x4GB 372 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	65.1% Good	MC Read 22.4 MC Write 23.5 MC Mixed 20.9 64% 22.3 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 22.6 SC Mixed 20.3 58% 20.4 GB/s	Latency 57.3 70% 57.3 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 65.1% Great: 66%

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Gaming 38%

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Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97M-PLUS/BR

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	75x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	63x
Core i5-4690Intel $52Bench 67%, 73,695 samples	23x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	46x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	22x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	21x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	21x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	12x
SSDNow V300 240GBKingston $35Bench 64%, 176,713 samples	11x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	28x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	15x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	10x

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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $363

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	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 $183	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