Asus Z97-K

Performance Results


Gaming 104% UFO	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 87% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 84.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	124% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Very high background CPU (43%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-K (all builds)
Memory	23.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141009
Uptime	8 Days
Run Date	Feb 14 '18 at 01:44
Run Duration	141 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	43%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	84.7% Excellent	Memory 92.5 1-Core 128 2-Core 238 87% 153 Pts	4-Core 415 8-Core 606 64% 511 Pts	64-Core 660 41% 660 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 84.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3607) ≥ 4GB; GeForce GTX 1080 TI ARMOR 11G OC CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing below potential (50^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	124% Outstanding	Lighting 169 Reflection 193 Parallax 197 138% 186 fps	MRender 123 Gravity 179 Splatting 120 114% 141 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 124% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 142GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6801 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 240 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 61 53 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 135 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5418419099	115% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 409 Mixed 420 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 47.5 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 46.4 187% 66.4 MB/s	DQ Read 303 DQ Write 255 DQ Mixed 117 132% 225 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 133%
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB-$31 763,289 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 33GB free (System drive) Firmware: MS2OA750 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 91 91 3211266 (02) Throughput performance 141 141 72 (03) Spinup time 126 126 12897091763 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1176 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 113 113 35 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 21129 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1095 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1195 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1195 (C2) HDA temperature 166 166 201864642596 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	69.9% Good	Read 126 Write 118 Mixed 107 88% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.2 78% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 107%
WD My Passport 25EA 2TB 555 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 592GB free, PID 25ea Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	34.1% Below average	Read 79.8 Write 84.1 Mixed 77.2 104% 80.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 1.35 4K Mixed 0.2 54% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 34.1% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 4x8GB 8,984 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	57.4% Above average	MC Read 19.8 MC Write 21.1 MC Mixed 18.1 56% 19.7 GB/s	SC Read 13.7 SC Write 21.1 SC Mixed 17.7 50% 17.5 GB/s	Latency 63.1 63% 63.1 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 57.4% Great: 63%

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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	875x
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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	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