Asus Z97-PRO (Wi-Fi ac)

Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (39th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 61 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 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 82.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	102% 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	71% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO (Wi-Fi ac) (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151027
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	Mar 23 '18 at 00:02
Run Duration	136 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	6%

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PC Performing below expectations (39^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	82.1% Excellent	Memory 84 1-Core 117 2-Core 234 81% 145 Pts	4-Core 431 8-Core 658 67% 545 Pts	64-Core 656 41% 656 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 82.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 8591) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.24 Performing below potential (51^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	102% Outstanding	Lighting 130 Reflection 140 Parallax 135 106% 135 fps	MRender 112 Gravity 129 Splatting 105 94% 115 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk X400 512GB-$99 7,913 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 406GB free (System drive) Firmware: X4120000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2483 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 668 (A5) Unknown 100 100 279307487047 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 34 (A8) Unknown 100 100 13 (A9) Unknown 100 100 480 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 6 (AE) Unknown 100 100 31 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 59 74 317829087273 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 5635002664224 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3378 (EA) Unknown 100 100 17938 (F1) Unknown 253 253 17163 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2908 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	71% Very good	Read 491 Write 339 Mixed 291 83% 374 MB/s	4K Read 27.1 4K Write 39.1 4K Mixed 19.2 86% 28.5 MB/s	DQ Read 28 DQ Write 186 DQ Mixed 10.5 36% 74.9 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 104%
Crucial MX200 250GB-$134 26,364 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 232GB free Firmware: MU03 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 10 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 727 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3 (AE) Unknown 100 100 30 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2587 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 71 59 176094838813 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 646005932 (F7) Unknown 100 100 20256140 (F8) Unknown 100 100 12146260	79.4% Very good	Read 518 Write 388 Mixed 405 97% 437 MB/s	4K Read 30.2 4K Write 79.1 4K Mixed 18.4 111% 42.6 MB/s	DQ Read 31.4 DQ Write 83.6 DQ Mixed 46.4 39% 53.8 MB/s
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 79.4% Great: 113%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$90 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 674GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 99 25318040 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 904 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 42912227 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2407 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 729 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 196612 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 65 521601053 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 296 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 12356 (C2) HDA temperature 29 40 77309411357 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -63565515977709 (F1) Unknown 100 253 17193425516 (F2) Unknown 100 253 182353697089	81.4% Excellent	Read 130 Write 152 Mixed 113 99% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 5.33 4K Mixed 0.58 187% 2.16 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 81.4% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 99[1/6/3]996(F) 1314 99[1/6/3]996(F) 1314 99[2/7/4]164(S/Y) 1314 99[2/7/4]164(S/Y) 16GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	50.2% Above average	MC Read 17.6 MC Write 18.3 MC Mixed 15.2 49% 17 GB/s	SC Read 13.5 SC Write 18.9 SC Mixed 16.3 46% 16.2 GB/s	Latency 73.4 54% 73.4 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 50.2% Great: 52%

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

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Gaming 43%

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Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-PRO (Wi-Fi ac)

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	583x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	132x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	86x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	141x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	55x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	52x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	41x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	36x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	29x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	49x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	31x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	28x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $687

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16