Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 80.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	106% 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	161% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO GAMER (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colori
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jul 17 '18 at 21:48
Run Duration	171 Seconds
Run User	CHE-User
Background CPU	15%

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PC Performing as expected (58^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 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	80.8% Excellent	Memory 87.5 1-Core 109 2-Core 221 79% 139 Pts	4-Core 410 8-Core 521 60% 466 Pts	64-Core 584 36% 584 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 80.8% 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: 398.36 Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	106% Outstanding	Lighting 138 Reflection 151 Parallax 130 112% 140 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 134 Splatting 110 98% 120 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 381,216 User benchmarks, average bench 273% 179GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B2QEXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 574 575 561 479 379 353 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	161% Outstanding	Read 549 Write 545 Mixed 581 SusWrite 487 122% 540 MB/s	4K Read 58.3 4K Write 120 4K Mixed 76.1 250% 85 MB/s	DQ Read 766 DQ Write 666 DQ Mixed 841 596% 758 MB/s
Poor: 199% ↑ This bench: 161% Great: 340%
Corsair Force 3 240GB-$232 6,637 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 159GB free Firmware: 5.02 SusWrite @10s intervals: 141 133 130 133 114 133 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	60% Good	Read 134 Write 195 Mixed 154 SusWrite 131 35% 153 MB/s	4K Read 21.9 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 28.2 126% 52.6 MB/s	DQ Read 187 DQ Write 202 DQ Mixed 159 129% 182 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 60% Great: 67%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 674GB free Firmware: CC4C SusWrite @10s intervals: 175 173 173 174 171 174 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	99.9% Outstanding	Read 175 Write 126 Mixed 82.2 SusWrite 173 102% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 1 172% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 99.9% Great: 112%
WD Red 4TB (2013)-$110 55,507 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 1.5TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 SusWrite @10s intervals: 101 111 103 111 107 113 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	71.2% Very good	Read 141 Write 126 Mixed 50.2 SusWrite 108 77% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.6 115% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 71.2% Great: 100%
WD Ext HDD 1021 3TB 2,189 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 2.5TB free, PID 1021 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 6.7 Write 6.7 Mixed 6.7 9% 6.7 MB/s	4K Read 0 4K Write 0.1 4K Mixed 0.1 7% 0.07 MB/s
Poor: 12% Great: 22%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 20,216 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (36^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	55.4% Above average	MC Read 20.3 MC Write 20.8 MC Mixed 16.6 55% 19.2 GB/s	SC Read 13.2 SC Write 18.8 SC Mixed 17.1 47% 16.4 GB/s	Latency 70 57% 70 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 55.4% Great: 86%

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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 Z97-PRO GAMER

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,398x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	542x
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 $94Bench 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 $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