Asrock Z97M Anniversary

Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 90.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	90.1% 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	56.6% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asrock Z97M Anniversary (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160527
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 14 '18 at 01:10
Run Duration	214 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4670K-$127 128,482 User benchmarks, average bench 68% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.7% Outstanding	Memory 95.7 1-Core 127 2-Core 255 90% 159 Pts	4-Core 496 8-Core 493 66% 494 Pts	64-Core 489 30% 489 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 90.7% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 2088 MHz, MLim: 2202 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.1% Outstanding	Lighting 114 Reflection 121 Parallax 103 93% 112 fps	MRender 104 Gravity 103 Splatting 103 85% 103 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 17GB free (System drive) Firmware: 541ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 15440689 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 64819646432685 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 601 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 93 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 31 42 60132294687 (C2) HDA temperature 31 42 60132294687 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 15440689 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 15440689 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 15440689 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2926 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3245 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3245 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2748	56.6% Above average	Read 445 Write 121 Mixed 195 55% 253 MB/s	4K Read 24.1 4K Write 93.3 4K Mixed 10.7 100% 42.7 MB/s	DQ Read 22.4 DQ Write 123 DQ Mixed 40.2 40% 61.8 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 56.6% Great: 73%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 335GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 173 2241 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 697 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1612 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 677 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 118 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 578 (C2) HDA temperature 112 106 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	78.8% Very good	Read 149 Write 126 Mixed 107 95% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 2.21 4K Mixed 0.26 106% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 78.8% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GB 8,026 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	71.3% Very good	MC Read 25.4 MC Write 26.7 MC Mixed 22.6 71% 24.9 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 22.3 SC Mixed 20.9 58% 20.5 GB/s	Latency 54.9 73% 54.9 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 71.3% Great: 71%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 9%

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Desktop 73%

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Workstation 8%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z97M Anniversary - $130

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	41x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	26x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	24x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	20x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	18x
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	13x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	8x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	8x
MX500 500GBCrucial $46Bench 106%, 237,241 samples	8x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	16x
KHX1600C10D3/8G Hynix 8G1600CL11 16GBKingstonBench 58%, 7 samples	6x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	6x

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Value: 63% - Good

Total price: $587

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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