Asrock H97M Pro4

Performance Results


Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 9% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 82.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	4.68% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	93.2% 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.

Motherboard	Asrock H97M Pro4 (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160613
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 21 '18 at 14:20
Run Duration	252 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing as expected (52^nd 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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	82.6% Excellent	Memory 86.4 1-Core 130 2-Core 243 86% 153 Pts	4-Core 424 8-Core 649 66% 536 Pts	64-Core 637 39% 637 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 82.6% Great: 87%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% ASRock(1849 0412) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4835 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 3% Great: 3%
AMD Radeon HD 6570 19,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Sapphire(174B E193) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	4.68% Terrible	Lighting 6.17 Reflection 6.12 Parallax 5.66 5% 5.98 fps	MRender 4.48 Gravity 5.2 Splatting 4.91 4% 4.86 fps
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 4.68% Great: 5%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba HG5d Q Series 128GB 2,624 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 113GB free Firmware: HTRAN101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 21367 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 867 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AD) Unknown 196 196 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 45 (C2) HDA temperature 60 54 197569216552 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	104% Outstanding	Read 496 Write 464 Mixed 494 108% 485 MB/s	4K Read 21.4 4K Write 98.2 4K Mixed 38.1 133% 52.6 MB/s	DQ Read 324 DQ Write 313 DQ Mixed 13.2 94% 217 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 102%
Toshiba HG5d Q Series 128GB 2,624 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 42GB free (System drive) Firmware: HTRAN101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 34144 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 367 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AD) Unknown 174 174 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 65 (C2) HDA temperature 64 56 188979609636 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	93.2% Outstanding	Read 496 Write 464 Mixed 492 108% 484 MB/s	4K Read 17.6 4K Write 96 4K Mixed 21 104% 44.9 MB/s	DQ Read 325 DQ Write 307 DQ Mixed 18.1 95% 217 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 93.2% Great: 102%
WD Blue 4TB (2015)-$85 124,615 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 163 163 6816 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 69 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5390 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 69 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 5 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 179 179 63937 (C2) HDA temperature 111 104 39 (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	73.1% Very good	Read 130 Write 124 Mixed 123 95% 126 MB/s	4K Read 1.02 4K Write 2.36 4K Mixed 0.21 110% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 73.1% Great: 101%
Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB-$80 85,620 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 1TB free Firmware: MX6OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 72 (03) Spinup time 141 141 34387263878 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 412 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 34102 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 362 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1297 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1297 (C2) HDA temperature 127 127 249109020719 (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 200 200 0	62.2% Good	Read 124 Write 92.8 Mixed 138 90% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.68 4K Mixed 0.16 67% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 62.2% Great: 107%
Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 1TB-$497 27,212 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 234GB free Firmware: ST6OA31B Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 16 (02) Throughput performance 131 131 118 (03) Spinup time 125 125 38685901242 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2397 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 125 125 33 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 26746 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1525 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 3219 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 3219 (C2) HDA temperature 136 136 287763464236 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	43.9% Average	Read 76.3 Write 76.6 Mixed 73.7 57% 75.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.41 99% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 43.9% Great: 61%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 500GB 1,197 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 324GB free, PID 0100 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)	26.5% Poor	Read 63.9 Write 59.9 Mixed 55.3 76% 59.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.18 53% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 26.5% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown Vulcan 1600 0420 F3-12800CL9-4GBRL 0423 Vulcan 1600 0420 F3-12800CL9-4GBRL 16GB 9 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (33^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	49% Average	MC Read 17.3 MC Write 17.4 MC Mixed 14.6 47% 16.4 GB/s	SC Read 13.7 SC Write 18.2 SC Mixed 17.1 47% 16.3 GB/s	Latency 70.9 56% 70.9 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 49% Great: 63%

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Gaming 34%

Sail boat

Desktop 72%

Battleship

Workstation 26%

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Motherboard: Asrock H97M Pro4 - $200

CPU
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	179x
Core i5-4590Intel $188Bench 63%, 151,366 samples	155x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	153x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	109x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	77x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	65x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	54x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	50x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	44x

RAM
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 49%, 28,220 samples	35x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBG.SKILLBench 53%, 47,852 samples	28x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	27x

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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $674

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	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 $183	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