Asus Z97-E/USB 3.1

Performance Results


Gaming 22% Surfboard	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 18% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 81.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	18.3% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (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	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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (38%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-E/USB 3.1 (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150205
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 17 '16 at 23:43
Run Duration	279 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	38%

PC Performing above expectations (69^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 3.5 GHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	81.2% Excellent	Memory 95.7 1-Core 113 2-Core 223 83% 144 Pts	4-Core 385 8-Core 400 52% 392 Pts	64-Core 426 26% 426 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 81.2% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 750-Ti-$92 309,423 User benchmarks, average bench 17% EVGA(3842 3751) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 9.18.13.4725 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	18.3% Very poor	Lighting 23.3 Reflection 17.2 Parallax 20.3 19% 20.3 fps	MRender 25.6 Gravity 20.7 Splatting 17.1 17% 21.1 fps
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 18.3% Great: 19%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 233GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 263 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 243 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 62 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 15 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1268009899	114% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 412 Mixed 206 83% 378 MB/s	4K Read 46.7 4K Write 95 4K Mixed 48.5 183% 63.4 MB/s	DQ Read 301 DQ Write 243 DQ Mixed 106 124% 216 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 124%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 848GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 172 2341 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 77 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 72 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 72 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 7 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 77 (C2) HDA temperature 108 106 35 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	79.3% Very good	Read 130 Write 146 Mixed 102 94% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 0.26 101% 1.12 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 79.3% Great: 109%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 289GB free Firmware: KC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 528 (03) Spinup time 100 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 99 89 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 62 60 4296672148 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3617 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1356 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 56 571932706 (C2) HDA temperature 34 44 77309411362 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 39 23 528 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -94794223186288 (F1) Unknown 100 253 712965419 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1375818554	57.2% Above average	Read 98.1 Write 101 Mixed 71.6 67% 90.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 0.99 4K Mixed 0.57 111% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 57.2% Great: 88%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 159GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 157 156 5150 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2251 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5410 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1791 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 354 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2249 (C2) HDA temperature 113 87 34 (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	44.2% Average	Read 76.8 Write 76.8 Mixed 52.4 51% 68.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 2.21 4K Mixed 0.37 110% 1.09 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 44.2% Great: 69%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 146GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 156 153 5166 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5701 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 15183 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4742 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 887 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5698 (C2) HDA temperature 110 90 37 (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	45.3% Average	Read 66.4 Write 91.1 Mixed 50.1 51% 69.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.29 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 0.38 98% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 45.3% Great: 69%
Seagate Backup+ Desk 2TB 69 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 1.5TB free, PID ab34 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	72.1% Very good	Read 184 Write 185 Mixed 147 219% 172 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.24 66% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 72%
SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 32GB-$8 33,725 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 25GB free, PID 5581 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	31.1% Below average	Read 121 Write 24.4 Mixed 27.5 54% 57.6 MB/s	4K Read 3.82 4K Write 2.39 4K Mixed 1.41 144% 2.54 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 31.1% Great: 38%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GB 18,444 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	72.4% Very good	MC Read 25.9 MC Write 26.8 MC Mixed 23.5 73% 25.4 GB/s	SC Read 18.5 SC Write 20.2 SC Mixed 22.4 58% 20.4 GB/s	Latency 55.1 73% 55.1 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 72.4% Great: 71%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-E/USB 3.1

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	253x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	104x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	67x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	65x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	57x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	38x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	31x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	30x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	24x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	63x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	14x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	13x

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Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $179	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) $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