Asus Z97I-PLUS

Performance Results


Gaming 11% Tree trunk	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 10% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 77.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	7.61% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	45.5% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Very high background CPU (54%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z97I-PLUS (all builds)
Memory	8.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150407
Uptime	10.8 Days
Run Date	Dec 23 '17 at 18:24
Run Duration	129 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	54%

PC Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4590S-$79 11,598 User benchmarks, average bench 67% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	77.9% Very good	Memory 92.1 1-Core 106 2-Core 202 78% 133 Pts	4-Core 374 8-Core 343 49% 359 Pts	64-Core 373 23% 373 Pts
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 77.9% Great: 76%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GT 740 30,433 User benchmarks, average bench 7% EVGA(3842 2743) 2GB CLim: 1058 MHz, MLim: 445 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	7.61% Terrible	Lighting 8.73 Reflection 8.15 Parallax 8.88 7% 8.59 fps	MRender 8.24 Gravity 11.5 Splatting 11.2 8% 10.3 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 7.61% Great: 8%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 535 Series 240GB-$200 9,142 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 87GB free (System drive) Firmware: RG21 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 35 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6038 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 133 (AA) Unknown 89 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 13 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 31 100 81607262239 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 13 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 470667 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 34 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 89 100 0 (E9) Unknown 32 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 470667 (F2) Unknown 100 100 247216 (F9) Unknown 100 100 250179	45.5% Average	Read 290 Write 150 Mixed 130 42% 190 MB/s	4K Read 5.88 4K Write 58.7 4K Mixed 8.9 51% 24.5 MB/s	DQ Read 277 DQ Write 160 DQ Mixed 54.7 85% 164 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 45.5% Great: 95%
Toshiba MK1655GSX 160GB-$40 2,046 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 140GB free Firmware: FG011J Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^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 1158 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 6471 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 56 56 17835 (0A) Spinup retry count 229 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3278 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 526 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 42 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 63 63 378196 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 206159347739 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 66 (DE) Loaded hours 89 89 4678 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 369 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	33.7% Below average	Read 57.7 Write 59.6 Mixed 56.3 44% 57.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.27 68% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 33.7% Great: 34%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GB 48,796 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (34^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	55.1% Above average	MC Read 19 MC Write 21 MC Mixed 17 54% 19 GB/s	SC Read 13.3 SC Write 18.1 SC Mixed 16.5 46% 16 GB/s	Latency 63.9 63% 63.9 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 55.1% Great: 63%

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Gaming 9%

Tree trunk

Desktop 72%

Battleship

Workstation 8%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Asus Z97I-PLUS - $200

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	233x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	103x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	51x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	66x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	63x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	40x

SSD
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	28x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	21x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	18x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	32x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	28x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	28x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $658

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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