Asus VANGUARD B85

Performance Results


Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 9% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	4.23% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	63.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Motherboard	Asus VANGUARD B85 (all builds)
Memory	10.8 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20150401
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 22 '16 at 14:52
Run Duration	118 Seconds
Run User	PHL-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.8% Outstanding	Memory 92 1-Core 133 2-Core 250 89% 158 Pts	4-Core 487 8-Core 669 73% 578 Pts	64-Core 669 41% 669 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 90.8% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 6570 19,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% XFX(1682 3190) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.0 Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)	4.23% Terrible	Lighting 5.6 Reflection 5.88 Parallax 5.69 5% 5.72 fps	MRender 3.81 Gravity 5.2 Splatting 4.13 4% 4.38 fps
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 4.23% Great: 5%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Transcend SSD370S 256GB-$115 11,742 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 124GB free (System drive) Firmware: O1225G Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 45 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 94 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 121 (A3) Unknown 100 100 44 (A4) Unknown 100 100 11154 (A5) Unknown 100 100 39 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 5 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 5 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 1558 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 21996 (F2) Unknown 100 100 31198 (F5) Unknown 100 100 44616	63.5% Good	Read 267 Write 247 Mixed 256 57% 257 MB/s	4K Read 30.1 4K Write 82.7 4K Mixed 23.1 119% 45.3 MB/s	DQ Read 26.6 DQ Write 83.4 DQ Mixed 24.3 28% 44.8 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 63.5% Great: 114%
Samsung HD161HJ 160GB-$40 22,667 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 45GB free Firmware: GF100-07 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 252 100 0 (03) Spinup time 80 73 3000 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10079 (05) Reallocated sector count 98 98 13 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 1883566 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 6919 (B8) Unknown 252 252 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 4821 (BC) Unknown 252 252 0 (BE) vendor-specific 157 100 32 (C2) HDA temperature 157 100 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 13 (C5) Current pending sector count 99 98 8 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 252 252 0	33.7% Below average	Read 56.4 Write 60.7 Mixed 53 43% 56.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.15 4K Mixed 0.32 77% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 33.7% Great: 42%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-020.A00LF KHX1866C10D3/8G 12GB 23 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	53.5% Above average	MC Read 18.7 MC Write 18.9 MC Mixed 16 51% 17.9 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 19.9 SC Mixed 18.8 52% 18.1 GB/s	Latency 64.1 62% 64.1 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 53.5% Great: 54%

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Gaming 8%

Tree trunk

Desktop 65%

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Workstation 7%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Asus VANGUARD B85 - $7,816

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	75x
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	46x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	35x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	34x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	25x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	24x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	19x
SATA SSD 480GBKioxia-exceriaBench 78%, 7,893 samples	15x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	13x

RAM
BLT4G3D1608DT1TX0. 4x4GBCrucialBench 53%, 1,688 samples	13x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	11x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	8x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $7,994

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