Asus Z97-WS

Performance Results


Gaming 50% Yacht	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 43% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (34th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 66 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 good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 70.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	64.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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.

Very high background CPU (79%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-WS (all builds)
Memory	24.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1440 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160114
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 23 '18 at 22:32
Run Duration	204 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	79%

PC Performing below expectations (34^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 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	70.4% Very good	Memory 89.6 1-Core 72 2-Core 136 62% 99.1 Pts	4-Core 278 8-Core 469 45% 373 Pts	64-Core 587 36% 587 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 70.4% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 2983) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	64.4% Good	Lighting 81.1 Reflection 86.1 Parallax 84.5 66% 83.9 fps	MRender 81.7 Gravity 75.4 Splatting 69.2 61% 75.4 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 64.4% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 512GB-$129 14,996 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 34GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM06B0Q 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 23846 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 424 (B1) Unknown 95 95 182 (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 66 56 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 197 (F1) Unknown 99 99 47981789844
Poor: 66% Great: 118%
Samsung 840 250GB-$251 41,998 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 10GB free Firmware: DXT09B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 36678 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 496 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (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 46 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 135 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2778510554	58.9% Above average	Read 397 Write 86.6 Mixed 149 46% 211 MB/s	4K Read 28.1 4K Write 79.2 4K Mixed 13.2 102% 40.2 MB/s	DQ Read 282 DQ Write 111 DQ Mixed 32 67% 142 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 58.9% Great: 85%
WD Re 3TB (2012)-$55 2,104 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 386GB free Firmware: 01.01K02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 149 130 11516 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11770 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 61 61 28785 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 423 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 286 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 11483 (C2) HDA temperature 106 84 46 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 199 0	69.4% Good	Read 125 Write 116 Mixed 122 91% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 2.81 4K Mixed 0.68 161% 1.43 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 69.4% Great: 96%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$40 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 349GB free Firmware: 05.00K05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 26 (03) Spinup time 222 216 8858 (04) Start/Stop count 77 77 23403 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 16 16 61723 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 639 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 321 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 193 193 23378 (C2) HDA temperature 108 79 42 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 1	52.5% Above average	Read 110 Write 72.7 Mixed 81.6 66% 88.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.96 4K Mixed 0.39 104% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 52.5% Great: 76%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$40 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 38GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 177 4000 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9292 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 32 32 49805 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 573 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 287 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9004 (C2) HDA temperature 110 82 37 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	42.5% Average	Read 90.6 Write 57 Mixed 60.1 52% 69.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.01 4K Mixed 0.36 106% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 42.5% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 4x8GB 7,519 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	78.7% Very good	MC Read 29.6 MC Write 32 MC Mixed 26.5 84% 29.4 GB/s	SC Read 14 SC Write 18.2 SC Mixed 19.1 49% 17.1 GB/s	Latency 67.7 59% 67.7 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 78.7% Great: 119%

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

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Gaming 97%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 81%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-WS - $318

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	76x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	22x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	13x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	13x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	13x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	11x

SSD
MX500 1TBCrucial $66Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	6x
980 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 2TBSamsung $168Bench 416%, 138,083 samples	5x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	5x

RAM
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	6x
RipjawsX DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 54%, 8,026 samples	5x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	4x

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Value: 65% - Good

Total price: $1,217

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