Asrock H97M Pro4

Performance Results

Benchmarks - excluding SSD
Gaming 12% Tree trunk	Desktop 29% Raft	Workstation 26% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (37th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 63 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 43.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	2.59% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Run History

15 months ago, 15 months ago, 15 months ago.

Motherboard	Asrock H97M Pro4 (all builds)
Memory	5.6 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150727
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 09 '18 at 01:05
Run Duration	114 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Extreme
Intel Core i5-4590-$80 72,998 User benchmarks, average bench 66% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 2.65 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	43.5% Average	1-Core 24.1 2-Core 109 28% 66.4 Pts	4-Core 355 8-Core 405 51% 380 Pts	64-Core 405 27% 405 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 43.5% Great: 72%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 138,558 User benchmarks, average bench 3% ASRock(1849 0412) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4963 Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	2.59% Terrible	Lighting 11.7 Reflection 17.1 Parallax 21.3 3% 16.7 fps	MRender 14.5 Gravity 7 Splatting 18.1 3% 13.2 fps
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 2.59% Great: 3%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$51 77,618 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 891GB free (System drive) Firmware: 51.0AB51 SusWrite @10s intervals: 79 78 81 98 78 100 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	51.5% Above average	Read 93.7 Write 104 Mixed 76.2 SusWrite 85.7 66% 89.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.8 138% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 51.5% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x4GB 1,839 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	25.7% Poor	MC Read 9.5 MC Write 9.2 MC Mixed 8.3 26% 9 GB/s	SC Read 6.9 SC Write 4.8 SC Mixed 8.3 19% 6.67 GB/s	Latency 131 30% 131 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 25.7% Great: 83%

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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 49%

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Desktop 59%

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Workstation 32%

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Motherboard: Asrock H97M Pro4 - $299

CPU
Core i5-4460Intel $70Bench 60%, 141,681 samples	780x
Core i5-4590Intel $80Bench 66%, 72,998 samples	704x
Core i5-4690KIntel $90Bench 73%, 152,974 samples	493x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $399Bench 52%, 506,553 samples	511x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $280Bench 57%, 752,541 samples	311x
GTX 1070Nvidia $415Bench 78%, 671,944 samples	281x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $55Bench 105%, 518,957 samples	391x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $107Bench 113%, 414,632 samples	216x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $70Bench 55%, 209,618 samples	108x

RAM
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBG.SKILLBench 53%, 30,609 samples	183x
Ballistix Sport DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCrucialBench 57%, 33,324 samples	171x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 56%, 34,148 samples	138x

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Value: 37% - Below average

Total price: $823

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-9400F $150	Nvidia GTX 1660S (Super) $270	Crucial MX500 250GB $45
Intel Core i5-9600K $200	AMD RX 590 $180	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $150
Intel Core i7-9700K $359	Nvidia RTX 2060 $324	Samsung 850 Pro 512GB $230

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $65	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $38	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $58	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $46
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $80	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $613	SanDisk Extreme 16GB $24