Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

Performance Results


Gaming 94% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 78% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	104% 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	97.3% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO GAMER (all builds)
Memory	28.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.5 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 14 '18 at 23:25
Run Duration	105 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	12%

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PC Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.5% Excellent	Memory 97.7 1-Core 122 2-Core 231 86% 150 Pts	4-Core 418 8-Core 629 65% 523 Pts	64-Core 635 39% 635 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3702) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (71^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 136 Reflection 144 Parallax 136 111% 139 fps	MRender 111 Gravity 127 Splatting 108 94% 115 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M500 960GB-$59 4,389 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 687GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^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 4307 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1473 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 24 (AE) Unknown 100 100 94 (B4) Unknown 0 0 16523 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 54 197568495653 (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 30824919065 (F7) Unknown 100 100 967578368 (F8) Unknown 100 100 546501737	97.3% Outstanding	Read 488 Write 427 Mixed 442 101% 452 MB/s	4K Read 26 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 30.1 133% 53.1 MB/s	DQ Read 284 DQ Write 242 DQ Mixed 59.4 100% 195 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 97.3% Great: 101%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 864GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 92838144 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2165 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 90883353 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 7906 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2111 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 5 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 53 4867489826 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 134 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 87 87 27812 (C2) HDA temperature 34 47 -140737488355294 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 48 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 48 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 31649614010537 (F1) Unknown 100 253 26542331969 (F2) Unknown 100 253 40368859787	81.5% Excellent	Read 139 Write 146 Mixed 142 107% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.14 4K Mixed 0.24 72% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 81.5% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 99[2/7/4]123(F/Y/R 4x8GB 59 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2460 MHz Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	86.3% Excellent	MC Read 31.5 MC Write 32.7 MC Mixed 27.1 87% 30.4 GB/s	SC Read 21.2 SC Write 22.4 SC Mixed 28 68% 23.9 GB/s	Latency 47.3 85% 47.3 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 86.3% Great: 87%

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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	1,396x
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	453x
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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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

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) $35	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