Asrock H97M Anniversary

Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	12.3% 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	78% 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.

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Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock H97M Anniversary (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141216
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 20 '18 at 22:42
Run Duration	124 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	30%

PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4590-$188 151,366 User benchmarks, average bench 63% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	78.5% Very good	Memory 93.6 1-Core 101 2-Core 204 77% 133 Pts	4-Core 369 8-Core 361 49% 365 Pts	64-Core 389 24% 389 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 78.5% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD FirePro V7900 (FireGL V) 595 User benchmarks, average bench 14% AMD(1002 0B00) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.2401.1010 Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	12.3% Very poor	Lighting 13 Reflection 19.5 Parallax 17.8 11% 16.8 fps	MRender 18.6 Gravity 12.5 Splatting 24.2 16% 18.4 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 12.3% Great: 19%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX200 500GB-$90 17,487 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 168GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU02 SusWrite @10s intervals: 170 182 170 171 167 149 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile)	78% Very good	Read 414 Write 250 Mixed 282 SusWrite 168 62% 279 MB/s	4K Read 29.9 4K Write 88.3 4K Mixed 40.4 144% 52.9 MB/s	DQ Read 138 DQ Write 159 DQ Mixed 131 104% 143 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 105%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 915GB free Firmware: 03.01A03 SusWrite @10s intervals: 171 171 170 171 170 170 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	102% Outstanding	Read 184 Write 160 Mixed 86.3 SusWrite 170 110% 150 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 2.7 4K Mixed 1.2 233% 1.7 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 122,541 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	60.6% Good	MC Read 20.9 MC Write 22.5 MC Mixed 20 60% 21.1 GB/s	SC Read 14.7 SC Write 18.5 SC Mixed 17.5 48% 16.9 GB/s	Latency 60.7 66% 60.7 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 60.6% Great: 72%

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Gaming 34%

Sail boat

Desktop 73%

Battleship

Workstation 27%

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Motherboard: Asrock H97M Anniversary

CPU
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	104x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	76x
Core i5-4590Intel $188Bench 63%, 151,366 samples	67x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	43x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	35x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	34x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	20x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	17x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	15x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	19x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 49%, 28,220 samples	12x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	12x

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Value: 56% - Above average

Total price: $524

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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