Asrock Z97M Pro4

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 80.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	87.1% 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	41.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (19%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z97M Pro4 (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180307
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	Oct 29 '19 at 16:10
Run Duration	126 Seconds
Run User	HRV-User
Background CPU	19%

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PC Performing as expected (51^st 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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	80.9% Excellent	Memory 92.9 1-Core 106 2-Core 212 79% 137 Pts	4-Core 397 8-Core 415 54% 406 Pts	64-Core 389 24% 389 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 80.9% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3703) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 440.97 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	87.1% Excellent	Lighting 109 Reflection 115 Parallax 97.7 89% 107 fps	MRender 98.5 Gravity 103 Splatting 103 83% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WDC WDS500G2B0A-00SM50 500GB 97,462 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 248GB free (System drive) Firmware: 401000WD SusWrite @10s intervals: 88 87 93 86 90 87 MB/s Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile)	41.8% Average	Read 234 Write 303 Mixed 147 SusWrite 88.5 43% 193 MB/s	4K Read 22.3 4K Write 49.9 4K Mixed 18.7 84% 30.3 MB/s	DQ Read 20.4 DQ Write 57.1 DQ Mixed 29.4 25% 35.6 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 41.8% Great: 111%
Hitachi HUA723020ALA640 2TB 1,413 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2TB free Firmware: MK7OAA30 SusWrite @10s intervals: 86 86 91 84 89 85 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	51.4% Above average	Read 92.2 Write 107 Mixed 44.3 SusWrite 87 60% 82.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.5 104% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 51.4% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905471-074.A00LF Samsung M378B5173EB0-YK0 Micron 16JTF51264AZ-1G6M1 16GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 1867, 1867, 1867 MHz 8192, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	67.2% Good	MC Read 24.3 MC Write 26 MC Mixed 20.7 68% 23.7 GB/s	SC Read 16.1 SC Write 20.2 SC Mixed 20.8 54% 19 GB/s	Latency 62.3 64% 62.3 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 67.2% Great: 69%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Typical Z97M Pro4 Builds (Compare 283 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asrock Z97M Pro4 - $196

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	89x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	71x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	25x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	39x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	17x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	17x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	15x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	15x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	11x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	15x
i-DIMM 3x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 14 samples	10x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBG.SKILLBench 53%, 47,852 samples	9x

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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $771

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $124	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16