Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

Performance Results


Gaming 69% Battle cruiser	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 84.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	79.2% 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	113% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO GAMER (all builds)
Memory	27.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150521
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 23 '18 at 01:19
Run Duration	108 Seconds
Run User	POL-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing as expected (50^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 way above expectations (89^th percentile)	84.8% Excellent	Memory 90.7 1-Core 121 2-Core 242 85% 151 Pts	4-Core 426 8-Core 618 65% 522 Pts	64-Core 646 40% 646 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 84.8% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing below potential (55^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	79.2% Very good	Lighting 102 Reflection 109 Parallax 97.2 83% 103 fps	MRender 91.2 Gravity 95.4 Splatting 78.4 71% 88.4 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 79.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung SM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$31 9,202 User benchmarks, average bench 183% 11GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW7300Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	113% Outstanding	Read 751 Write 581 Mixed 579 142% 637 MB/s	4K Read 43.2 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 22.5 149% 56.6 MB/s	DQ Read 42.9 DQ Write 168 DQ Mixed 23.7 42% 78.1 MB/s
Poor: 119% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 243%
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 546,982 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 45GB free Firmware: JB0OA3J0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 121 121 98784247810 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 2898 (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 80 80 8915 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1510 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 14 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 66 66 345743 (C2) HDA temperature 240 240 223339020313 (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 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	66.5% Good	Read 112 Write 120 Mixed 117 88% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.2 70% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 2400 C11 4x8GB 5,910 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (35^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	56.9% Above average	MC Read 21 MC Write 20.8 MC Mixed 16.2 55% 19.3 GB/s	SC Read 15 SC Write 21.8 SC Mixed 18.7 53% 18.5 GB/s	Latency 66.3 60% 66.3 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 56.9% Great: 109%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,398x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	542x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	293x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	454x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	220x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	181x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	187x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	107x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	74x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	126x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	108x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	103x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

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