Asus Z97I-PLUS

Performance Results


Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 95.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	9.96% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	64.6% 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.

CPU throttled at 99% by Windows. Ensure maximum processor state is set to 100% via Settings > System > Power & sleep > Additional power settings > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings > Processor power management > Maximum processor state.

Motherboard	Asus Z97I-PLUS (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160218
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 21 '18 at 03:32
Run Duration	89 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%
CPU Throttled	99%

PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5775C-$183 2,527 User benchmarks, average bench 85% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	95.9% Outstanding	Memory 96.3 1-Core 130 2-Core 261 91% 163 Pts	4-Core 523 8-Core 694 77% 608 Pts	64-Core 569 35% 569 Pts
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel Iris Pro HD 6200 (Desktop) 1,198 User benchmarks, average bench 10% Asus(1043 8534) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4963 Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	9.96% Terrible	Lighting 11.2 Reflection 12.2 Parallax 13.9 9% 12.4 fps	MRender 12.6 Gravity 10.4 Splatting 18 12% 13.7 fps
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 9.96% Great: 11%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 250GB-$251 41,998 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 161GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXT06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 30099 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1325 (B1) Unknown 93 93 80 (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 69 60 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 350 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1251 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23353303751	64.6% Good	Read 510 Write 138 Mixed 184 60% 277 MB/s	4K Read 25.3 4K Write 75.6 4K Mixed 12.4 94% 37.8 MB/s	DQ Read 239 DQ Write 158 DQ Mixed 29.9 68% 142 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 64.6% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378B1G73CB0-CK0 2x8GB 379 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2000 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.1% Outstanding	MC Read 43.3 MC Write 26.3 MC Mixed 30.2 95% 33.3 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 20.9 SC Mixed 22.1 57% 19.9 GB/s	Latency 53 76% 53 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 90.1% Great: 59%

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

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Gaming 9%

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Desktop 72%

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Workstation 8%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97I-PLUS - $200

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	233x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	103x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	51x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	66x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	63x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	40x

SSD
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	28x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	21x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	18x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	32x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	28x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	28x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $658

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