Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 87.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86.6% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	178% 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.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO GAMER (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151208
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Jun 24 '19 at 01:28
Run Duration	221 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 0.8 GHz, turbo 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.9% Excellent	Memory 96.1 1-Core 125 2-Core 200 83% 140 Pts	4-Core 458 8-Core 476 62% 467 Pts	64-Core 472 29% 472 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4996) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 430.39 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	86.6% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 120 Parallax 107 91% 113 fps	MRender 98 Gravity 104 Splatting 86.2 78% 96 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata XPG SX8200 NVMe PCIe M.2 480GB-$60 15,626 User benchmarks, average bench 216% 278GB free (System drive) Firmware: SVN105 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 501 476 518 530 539 539 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile)	178% Outstanding	Read 729 Write 670 Mixed 634 SusWrite 517 143% 638 MB/s	4K Read 64.1 4K Write 139 4K Mixed 85.6 280% 96.3 MB/s	DQ Read 774 DQ Write 538 DQ Mixed 823 569% 712 MB/s
Poor: 127% ↑ This bench: 178% Great: 333%
Intel 530 Series 240GB-$149 16,872 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 36GB free Firmware: DC32 SusWrite @10s intervals: 186 157 202 205 198 197 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	92.5% Outstanding	Read 385 Write 265 Mixed 284 SusWrite 191 63% 281 MB/s	4K Read 37.8 4K Write 119 4K Mixed 44.4 177% 66.9 MB/s	DQ Read 281 DQ Write 234 DQ Mixed 159 146% 225 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 92.5% Great: 91%
TXB2C10960GG7SLT 960GB 9 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 158GB free Firmware: ZN1HMC99 SusWrite @10s intervals: 222 214 217 212 227 228 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	75.8% Very good	Read 211 Write 385 Mixed 161 SusWrite 220 55% 244 MB/s	4K Read 30.4 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 37.5 152% 58.9 MB/s	DQ Read 201 DQ Write 145 DQ Mixed 118 103% 155 MB/s
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 75.8% Great: 83%
Intel 320 Series 300GB-$289 2,154 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 193GB free Firmware: 4PC10365 SusWrite @10s intervals: 189 186 191 193 196 196 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	54.8% Above average	Read 258 Write 218 Mixed 188 SusWrite 192 48% 214 MB/s	4K Read 21.3 4K Write 42.9 4K Mixed 26.4 89% 30.2 MB/s	DQ Read 140 DQ Write 86.5 DQ Mixed 75.9 66% 101 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 54.8% Great: 54%
Jmicron Generic 120GB 286 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 108GB free Firmware: 0508 SusWrite @10s intervals: 79 79 78 71 51 51 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	42.5% Average	Read 406 Write 88 Mixed 143 SusWrite 68.1 38% 176 MB/s	4K Read 17.4 4K Write 37.4 4K Mixed 11.1 60% 22 MB/s	DQ Read 107 DQ Write 89.3 DQ Mixed 14.2 34% 70.3 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 42.5% Great: 65%
Samsung HD502HI 500GB-$154 24,344 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 368GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 SusWrite @10s intervals: 101 100 101 101 101 100 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	57.5% Above average	Read 99.5 Write 48.3 Mixed 54.5 SusWrite 101 56% 75.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.8 149% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 57.5% Great: 59%
VendorCo ProductCode 4GB 1,811 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 4GB free, PID 5678 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 17 Write 4.3 Mixed 1.8 7% 7.7 MB/s	4K Read 2.5 4K Write 0 4K Mixed 0 9% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 2% Great: 7%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9 0420 F3-17000CL11-4GBXL 0215 CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9 0420 F3-17000CL11-4GBXL 16GB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 1867, 1867, 1867, 1867 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (11^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	73.3% Very good	MC Read 26.1 MC Write 26.9 MC Mixed 23.5 73% 25.5 GB/s	SC Read 19.2 SC Write 22.8 SC Mixed 22.4 61% 21.5 GB/s	Latency 53.6 75% 53.6 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 73.3% Great: 82%

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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	1,401x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	543x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	295x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	454x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	221x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	181x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	187x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	107x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $75Bench 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	109x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	103x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	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 $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $28	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16