Asus Z97-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	78.4% 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	118% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Sub-optimal background CPU (19%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-AR (all builds)
Memory	26.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150424
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 18 '18 at 15:09
Run Duration	315 Seconds
Run User	CHE-User
Background CPU	19%

PC Performing above expectations (66^th 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 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	86.6% Excellent	Memory 95.5 1-Core 125 2-Core 251 89% 157 Pts	4-Core 420 8-Core 602 64% 511 Pts	64-Core 677 42% 677 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 86.6% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX Titan X-$615 15,621 User benchmarks, average bench 75% Asus(1043 8539) CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	78.4% Very good	Lighting 102 Reflection 112 Parallax 99.7 83% 104 fps	MRender 87.9 Gravity 92.1 Splatting 78.4 70% 86.1 fps
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 78.4% Great: 83%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ REVODRIVE3 480GB 65 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 403GB free Firmware: 2.25 Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	66.9% Good	Read 415 Write 335 Mixed 281 76% 344 MB/s	4K Read 16.6 4K Write 34.4 4K Mixed 14.2 62% 21.7 MB/s	DQ Read 271 DQ Write 238 DQ Mixed 72.2 104% 194 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 66.9% Great: 90%
Samsung SM951 AHCI PCIe M.2 512GB-$290 5,772 User benchmarks, average bench 185% 131GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW2500Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11031 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 879 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 88 88 360 (AE) Unknown 99 99 41 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1747 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 61 29 39 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 184648 (F1) Unknown 99 99 32902 (F2) Unknown 99 99 14077	118% Outstanding	Read 668 Write 674 Mixed 723 154% 688 MB/s	4K Read 34.3 4K Write 75.1 4K Mixed 39.9 143% 49.8 MB/s	DQ Read 144 DQ Write 106 DQ Mixed 72.8 68% 108 MB/s
Poor: 114% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 241%
WD VelociRaptor 1TB-$268 8,165 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 931GB free Firmware: 04.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 199 196 3050 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3657 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 17398 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1869 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 308 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3348 (C2) HDA temperature 121 109 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	114% Outstanding	Read 194 Write 201 Mixed 177 143% 191 MB/s	4K Read 1.78 4K Write 4.77 4K Mixed 0.43 210% 2.33 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 117%
WD VelociRaptor 1TB-$268 8,165 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 889GB free Firmware: 04.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 200 198 2966 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2824 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 14514 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1567 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 243 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2580 (C2) HDA temperature 122 109 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	107% Outstanding	Read 185 Write 185 Mixed 176 137% 182 MB/s	4K Read 1.74 4K Write 4.44 4K Mixed 0.45 204% 2.21 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 117%
Intenso USB 3.0 Device 1TB 1,714 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 931GB free, PID 55aa Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	47.3% Average	Read 111 Write 115 Mixed 33.4 104% 86.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.92 4K Mixed 0.32 78% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 47.3% Great: 49%
Samsung Portable SSD T3 1TB 100 User benchmarks, average bench 203% 931GB free, PID 61f3 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	315% Outstanding	Read 315 Write 326 Mixed 298 404% 313 MB/s	4K Read 29.2 4K Write 62.1 4K Mixed 23.8 3,030% 38.4 MB/s	DQ Read 33.5 DQ Write 80.7 DQ Mixed 24.5 3,705% 46.2 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 315% Great: 337%
Kingston DT HyperX 3.0 126GB 115 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 24GB free, PID 162b Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	51.7% Above average	Read 269 Write 35.3 Mixed 41.8 100% 115 MB/s	4K Read 9.25 4K Write 0.92 4K Mixed 0.86 95% 3.68 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 51.7% Great: 86%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMT32GX3M4X1866C9 4x8GB 285 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	67.6% Good	MC Read 24.1 MC Write 24.8 MC Mixed 21.3 67% 23.4 GB/s	SC Read 16.5 SC Write 22.5 SC Mixed 20.7 57% 19.9 GB/s	Latency 55.4 72% 55.4 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 112%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97-AR - $140

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	560x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	320x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	95x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	182x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	85x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	66x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	53x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	36x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	56x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	55x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	38x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $788

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 $184	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) $35	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