Asus Z97-DELUXE

Performance Results


Gaming 20% Surfboard	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 19% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (24th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 76 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	20.7% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	57.8% 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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

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

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-DELUXE (all builds)
Memory	8.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20140617
Uptime	8.4 Days
Run Date	Mar 06 '18 at 01:12
Run Duration	157 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	43%

PC Performing below expectations (24^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, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile)	73.2% Very good	Memory 85.5 1-Core 85.3 2-Core 160 66% 110 Pts	4-Core 328 8-Core 658 58% 493 Pts	64-Core 658 41% 658 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 73.2% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 270X-$199 77,943 User benchmarks, average bench 27% Asus(1043 0464) CLim: 1120 MHz, MLim: 1400 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 17.7.1 Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	20.7% Poor	Lighting 25.4 Reflection 18 Parallax 33.3 21% 25.6 fps	MRender 20.1 Gravity 28.5 Splatting 26.1 21% 24.9 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 20.7% Great: 29%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$210 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 27GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 23308 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1996 (B1) Unknown 95 95 248 (B3) Unknown 100 100 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 64 54 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 70 (F1) Unknown 99 99 52539950579	57.8% Above average	Read 376 Write 115 Mixed 149 46% 213 MB/s	4K Read 28.6 4K Write 47 4K Mixed 23.3 98% 33 MB/s	DQ Read 192 DQ Write 81.5 DQ Mixed 63.9 67% 112 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 57.8% Great: 124%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 320GB 718 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 223GB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	67.8% Good	Read 109 Write 127 Mixed 116 88% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 2.13 4K Mixed 0.5 120% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 67.8% Great: 131%
WD WD6400AACS-00G8B1 640GB 9,045 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 80GB free Firmware: 05.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 132 131 6358 (04) Start/Stop count 53 53 47579 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 11 11 65442 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5242 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 893 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 185 185 47579 (C2) HDA temperature 103 90 44 (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	30% Poor	Read 56.3 Write 47.7 Mixed 51.4 39% 51.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.39 94% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 30% Great: 49%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1600 CL9 Series 2x8GB 7,092 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	58.9% Above average	MC Read 21.9 MC Write 22.2 MC Mixed 19.2 60% 21.1 GB/s	SC Read 12.7 SC Write 18 SC Mixed 14.3 43% 15 GB/s	Latency 71.6 56% 71.6 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 58.9% Great: 63%

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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%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-DELUXE - $650

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	403x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	65x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	61x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	45x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	44x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	39x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	17x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	15x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	13x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	26x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	25x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	15x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $1,327

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