Asrock Z97 Anniversary

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 12% Tree trunk	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 9% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (90th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 10 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 71.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	13.5% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
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.

Motherboard	Asrock Z97 Anniversary (all builds)
Memory	3.9 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151013
Uptime	16.5 Days
Run Date	Mar 10 '18 at 10:41
Run Duration	110 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i3-4170-$59 48,178 User benchmarks, average bench 57% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71.8% Very good	Memory 94.4 1-Core 109 2-Core 184 77% 129 Pts	4-Core 287 8-Core 290 38% 288 Pts	64-Core 286 18% 286 Pts
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 71.8% Great: 69%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 6850 31,600 User benchmarks, average bench 12% Asus(1043 03B4) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.1901.0 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	13.5% Very poor	Lighting 17.7 Reflection 13.8 Parallax 16.4 14% 16 fps	MRender 11.7 Gravity 11.7 Splatting 17.5 12% 13.6 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 13.5% Great: 13%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 107GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 23417 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 476 (B1) Unknown 96 96 38 (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 71 40 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 95 95 4193 (EB) Unknown 99 99 190 (F1) Unknown 99 99 44197346771
Poor: 64% Great: 118%
HGST Travelstar 5K1000 2.5" 640GB-$35 187 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 522GB free Firmware: JA4OA480 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 176 176 73014444033 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 15710 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 54 54 20493 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 473 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 125 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 41922 (C2) HDA temperature 253 253 171799412757 (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 18525 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	46.6% Average	Read 85.2 Write 77.1 Mixed 79.2 61% 80.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.2 70% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 46.6% Great: 54%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 73,650 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	55.7% Above average	MC Read 19.4 MC Write 20.1 MC Mixed 16.7 54% 18.7 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 19.9 SC Mixed 17.7 51% 17.7 GB/s	Latency 58.8 68% 58.8 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 55.7% Great: 62%

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Typical Z97 Anniversary Builds (Compare 1,182 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asrock Z97 Anniversary - $120

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	325x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	243x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	112x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	140x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	96x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	77x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	69x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	56x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	40x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	36x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	36x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	29x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $768

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