Asrock Z97 Killer

Performance Results


Gaming 89% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 80% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 75.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	123% 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	69.9% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (20%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asrock Z97 Killer (all builds)
Memory	8.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150512
Uptime	11.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 30 '18 at 05:29
Run Duration	172 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	20%

PC Performing as expected (45^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770-$75 176,321 User benchmarks, average bench 70% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	75.2% Very good	Memory 86.1 1-Core 107 2-Core 210 77% 134 Pts	4-Core 348 8-Core 560 56% 454 Pts	64-Core 538 33% 538 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 75.2% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6390) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing below potential (47^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	123% Outstanding	Lighting 170 Reflection 185 Parallax 186 139% 180 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 168 Splatting 120 110% 135 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 123% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 3D 500GB-$67 43,442 User benchmarks, average bench 97% 356GB free Firmware: X61130WD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 173 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 13 (A5) Unknown 100 100 2228246 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 92 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 376 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 40 171800068126 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 17179869188 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 248 (EA) Unknown 100 100 275 (F1) Unknown 253 253 269 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1600 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	80.9% Excellent	Read 476 Write 334 Mixed 337 85% 382 MB/s	4K Read 28.2 4K Write 65.1 4K Mixed 19.5 102% 37.6 MB/s	DQ Read 310 DQ Write 200 DQ Mixed 52.4 94% 187 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 80.9% Great: 117%
Toshiba THNSFJ256GCSU 256GB 3,843 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 17GB free (System drive) Firmware: JULA1102 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (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 100 100 7347 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1316 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 185 185 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 95 (C2) HDA temperature 70 57 184684445726 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	69.9% Good	Read 475 Write 98.4 Mixed 279 62% 284 MB/s	4K Read 18.5 4K Write 68.3 4K Mixed 36.1 110% 41 MB/s	DQ Read 307 DQ Write 140 DQ Mixed 80.4 98% 176 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 100%
Hitachi HTS547564A9E384 640GB 14,066 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 401GB free Firmware: JEDOA60B Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 99 99 131072 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 174 174 77309411329 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 4550 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 3 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 7867 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 3133 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 47 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 73 73 278720 (C2) HDA temperature 230 230 227633004570 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 3 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 8 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	49.5% Average	Read 84.2 Write 88.4 Mixed 85.7 65% 86.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.06 4K Mixed 0.13 54% 0.55 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 49.5% Great: 51%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 209GB free Firmware: KC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 4376 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2544 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 40782927 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5546 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 984 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 57 521601053 (C2) HDA temperature 29 43 34359738397 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 46 36 4376 (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 87552908334335 (F1) Unknown 100 253 958468022 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3987946470	53.4% Above average	Read 84.4 Write 102 Mixed 76.4 66% 87.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.01 4K Mixed 0.53 102% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 53.4% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLE8G3D1869DE1TX0. 2x8GB 3,080 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	26.7% Poor	MC Read 8.6 MC Write 8.5 MC Mixed 7.5 23% 8.2 GB/s	SC Read 7.8 SC Write 8.9 SC Mixed 8.4 24% 8.37 GB/s	Latency 71.2 56% 71.2 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 26.7% Great: 72%

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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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Typical Z97 Killer Builds (Compare 1,140 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asrock Z97 Killer - $158

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	455x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	264x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	81x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	147x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	88x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	72x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	50x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	46x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	37x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	37x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	33x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 56%, 22,320 samples	28x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $805

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) $30	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