Asus Z97-PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 87.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	87.5% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	36.9% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO (all builds)
Memory	26.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151027
Uptime	18.4 Days
Run Date	Jan 15 '18 at 13:07
Run Duration	148 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (70^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)	87.8% Excellent	Memory 91.5 1-Core 123 2-Core 249 87% 154 Pts	4-Core 486 8-Core 486 65% 486 Pts	64-Core 485 30% 485 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3236) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	87.5% Excellent	Lighting 114 Reflection 119 Parallax 108 93% 113 fps	MRender 97.3 Gravity 104 Splatting 85.1 77% 95.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Neutron XT 480GB-$210 846 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 136GB free Firmware: SAFC02.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st 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 13537 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 107 (A2) Unknown 100 100 1146 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 131082 (AE) Unknown 100 100 87 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 87 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 950 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1833	92.4% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 451 Mixed 498 108% 485 MB/s	4K Read 23.6 4K Write 97.1 4K Mixed 13.6 104% 44.7 MB/s	DQ Read 332 DQ Write 329 DQ Mixed 11.4 96% 224 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 92.4% Great: 116%
Corsair Force 120GB 1,958 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 54GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 100 194514829 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 61194694086973 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 641 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 144 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 47 60132622366 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 118 100 194514829 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 17088 (EA) Unknown 0 0 15040 (F1) Unknown 0 0 15040 (F2) Unknown 0 0 37696	36.9% Below average	Read 131 Write 93.9 Mixed 105 24% 110 MB/s	4K Read 18.5 4K Write 55.2 4K Mixed 13.2 74% 28.9 MB/s	DQ Read 95.1 DQ Write 93.5 DQ Mixed 30 40% 72.8 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 36.9% Great: 56%
WD WD30EZRS-00J99B0 3TB 2,807 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 232GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 147 141 9641 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14534 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 28 28 53244 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 543 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 115 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 5 5 585170 (C2) HDA temperature 125 109 27 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 52 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 24 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 39	60.3% Good	Read 112 Write 97.7 Mixed 95.1 76% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.94 4K Mixed 0.15 72% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 60.3% Great: 72%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR3-1600 CL11 8GB 4x8GB 109 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	61.7% Good	MC Read 22.1 MC Write 23.3 MC Mixed 18 60% 21.1 GB/s	SC Read 16.4 SC Write 22.4 SC Mixed 20.7 57% 19.8 GB/s	Latency 65 62% 65 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 61.7% Great: 64%

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Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-PRO - $215

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	330x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	81x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	68x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	71x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	45x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	34x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	21x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	18x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	17x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	22x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	19x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	15x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $872

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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