Asus Z97M-PLUS

Performance Results


Gaming 31% Sail boat	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 25% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	27.6% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	94.6% 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	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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97M-PLUS (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160222
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 17 '18 at 21:02
Run Duration	188 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	88.5% Excellent	Memory 96 1-Core 122 2-Core 246 88% 155 Pts	4-Core 468 8-Core 470 63% 469 Pts	64-Core 454 28% 454 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Nvidia(10DE 1151) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1699 MHz, MLim: 1814 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 397.64 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	27.6% Poor	Lighting 12.9 Reflection 95.2 Parallax 70.7 10% 59.6 fps	MRender 74.5 Gravity 71.1 Splatting 76.3 61% 74 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 27.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 401GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT03B6Q 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 99 99 577 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 135 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 65 54 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 127 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4543883860	94.6% Outstanding	Read 501 Write 404 Mixed 417 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 42.4 4K Write 95.3 4K Mixed 25.6 147% 54.4 MB/s	DQ Read 41.5 DQ Write 261 DQ Mixed 27.5 58% 110 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 94.6% Great: 134%
Crucial MX200 250GB-$134 26,364 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 221GB free Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^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 6688 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1825 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 87 87 418 (AE) Unknown 100 100 981 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2599 (B7) Unknown 100 100 38 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 65 50 214749610019 (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 87 87 13 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 72714032010 (F7) Unknown 100 100 2275485662 (F8) Unknown 100 100 2442828327	94.9% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 390 Mixed 410 98% 439 MB/s	4K Read 27.9 4K Write 85.8 4K Mixed 30.2 126% 48 MB/s	DQ Read 284 DQ Write 264 DQ Mixed 65.3 106% 204 MB/s
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 94.9% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 488GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 138221840 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1933 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 53348416 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6711 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1809 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 135 (BE) vendor-specific 71 55 488308765 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 609 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 62 62 76477 (C2) HDA temperature 29 45 60129542173 (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 4707284160484 (F1) Unknown 100 253 27592428612 (F2) Unknown 100 253 58534277328	96% Outstanding	Read 180 Write 155 Mixed 140 118% 158 MB/s	4K Read 0.24 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.21 62% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 96% Great: 112%
SanDisk Ultra Flair USB 3.0 128GB-$13 974 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 29GB free, PID 5591 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	20.4% Poor	Read 38.4 Write 24.5 Mixed 29.3 37% 30.7 MB/s	4K Read 3.88 4K Write 2.79 4K Mixed 1 143% 2.56 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 20.4% Great: 41%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 77,652 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2000 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	73.9% Very good	MC Read 26.8 MC Write 27.8 MC Mixed 23.3 74% 26 GB/s	SC Read 19 SC Write 22.4 SC Mixed 20.4 59% 20.6 GB/s	Latency 53.9 74% 53.9 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 63%

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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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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97M-PLUS - $350

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	300x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	172x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	162x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	112x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	76x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	60x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	35x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	26x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	26x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	44x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	31x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	24x

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Total price: $998

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 $178	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