Asus Z97-K

Performance Results


Gaming 99% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 82% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	116% 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	77.8% 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-K (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160331
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 14 '18 at 07:18
Run Duration	162 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3-$65 19,313 User benchmarks, average bench 73% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 0.8 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	84% Excellent	Memory 94.8 1-Core 110 2-Core 214 81% 140 Pts	4-Core 396 8-Core 602 62% 499 Pts	64-Core 590 36% 590 Pts
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 8593) ≥ 4GB; Asus Strix 1080 advanced CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	116% Outstanding	Lighting 158 Reflection 162 Parallax 153 128% 158 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 147 Splatting 117 104% 128 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 47GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13878 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1890 (B1) Unknown 79 79 246 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 58 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 128 (F1) Unknown 99 99 57490543744	77.8% Very good	Read 486 Write 340 Mixed 340 86% 389 MB/s	4K Read 29.6 4K Write 34 4K Mixed 17.9 86% 27.2 MB/s	DQ Read 340 DQ Write 211 DQ Mixed 66.6 106% 206 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 108%
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 23GB free Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 9471 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1129 (A5) Unknown 100 100 133206967156 (A6) Unknown 100 100 11 (A7) Unknown 100 100 36 (A8) Unknown 100 100 53 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 32 (AE) Unknown 100 100 53 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 48 206159413278 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 4484049143336 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 7576 (EA) Unknown 100 100 9176 (F1) Unknown 253 253 7216 (F2) Unknown 253 253 7959 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	78.1% Very good	Read 452 Write 333 Mixed 327 82% 371 MB/s	4K Read 26.4 4K Write 60.9 4K Mixed 17 94% 34.8 MB/s	DQ Read 323 DQ Write 220 DQ Mixed 50.1 97% 198 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 101%
Maxtor STM3500320AS 500GB 5,105 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 378GB free Firmware: MX1A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 75 123410584 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5535 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 13001356520 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 16962 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 8 (0C) Power cycle count 97 37 3102 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 65535 (BC) Unknown 100 96 21475165427 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 54 471597084 (C2) HDA temperature 28 46 47244640284 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 25 23 123410584 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	53.5% Above average	Read 88.3 Write 98 Mixed 89.4 69% 91.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.51 116% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 53.5% Great: 59%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 301GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 220689808 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 995 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 24382678 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7760 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 827 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 73 65 471531547 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 33 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2894 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 51539607579 (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 18571438596992 (F1) Unknown 100 253 19813246107 (F2) Unknown 100 253 452881062155	79.2% Very good	Read 105 Write 170 Mixed 139 104% 138 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 5.18 4K Mixed 0.63 183% 2.08 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 79.2% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 2133 C11 4x4GB 4,968 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	76.8% Very good	MC Read 28.1 MC Write 29.1 MC Mixed 24.6 78% 27.3 GB/s	SC Read 19.4 SC Write 19.7 SC Mixed 25.1 61% 21.4 GB/s	Latency 57.7 69% 57.7 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 76.8% Great: 79%

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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%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97-K - $147

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	877x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	663x
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	167x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	95x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	72x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	71x

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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Total price: $795

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