Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

Performance Results


Gaming 51% Yacht	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 43% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 77.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	65.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	122% 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	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.

Very high background CPU (36%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO GAMER (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 11 '18 at 09:53
Run Duration	160 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	36%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st 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% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	77.7% Very good	Memory 87 1-Core 102 2-Core 220 77% 136 Pts	4-Core 369 8-Core 584 59% 476 Pts	64-Core 590 36% 590 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 77.7% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-X-$781 8,241 User benchmarks, average bench 59% AMD(1002 0B36) CLim: 1050 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 18.4.1 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	65.7% Good	Lighting 82.9 Reflection 58.5 Parallax 123 68% 88.2 fps	MRender 59.6 Gravity 91 Splatting 75.5 62% 75.4 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 65.7% Great: 65%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 200GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	122% Outstanding	Read 693 Write 532 Mixed 563 132% 596 MB/s	4K Read 45.4 4K Write 74.1 4K Mixed 40.3 160% 53.2 MB/s	DQ Read 349 DQ Write 231 DQ Mixed 123 137% 234 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 236%
WD WD2003FYPS-27W9B 2TB 9,937 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 2TB free Firmware: 04.05G09 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 6 (03) Spinup time 148 142 9583 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4130 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4027 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1118 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 108 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4021 (C2) HDA temperature 127 105 25 (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 15	62.2% Good	Read 111 Write 106 Mixed 98.6 79% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.96 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.44 129% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 62.2% Great: 61%
WD WD2003FYPS-27W9B 2TB 9,937 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 1.5TB free Firmware: 04.05G09 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 11 (03) Spinup time 138 136 10066 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2526 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4079 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1117 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 117 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2408 (C2) HDA temperature 127 105 25 (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 4	68.4% Good	Read 132 Write 105 Mixed 105 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 0.43 123% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 68.4% Great: 61%
Lexar USB Flash Drive 128GB 2,523 User benchmarks, average bench 23% 119GB free, PID a838 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	50.3% Above average	Read 127 Write 116 Mixed 93.6 140% 112 MB/s	4K Read 6.64 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 1.21 121% 3.15 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 50.3% Great: 37%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GB 2,880 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	28.2% Poor	MC Read 9.4 MC Write 9.1 MC Mixed 7.8 25% 8.77 GB/s	SC Read 8.3 SC Write 9.6 SC Mixed 8.2 25% 8.7 GB/s	Latency 70.5 57% 70.5 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 28.2% Great: 71%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,398x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	541x
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 $109Bench 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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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