Asus Z97-PRO (Wi-Fi ac)

Performance Results


Gaming 64% Destroyer	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 55% Gunboat


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 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 91.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	64.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	92.5% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO (Wi-Fi ac) (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140930
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 26 '16 at 22:57
Run Duration	375 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	0%

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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 i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.7% Outstanding	Memory 98.1 1-Core 128 2-Core 250 90% 159 Pts	4-Core 460 8-Core 698 72% 579 Pts	64-Core 698 43% 698 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 91.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% MSI(1462 3281) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 375.70 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	64.6% Good	Lighting 81.7 Reflection 79.7 Parallax 77.1 67% 79.5 fps	MRender 72.5 Gravity 73.8 Splatting 75.4 61% 73.9 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 64.6% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 102GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9785 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 612 (B1) Unknown 96 96 138 (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 62 53 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 349 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23759455978	92.5% Outstanding	Read 525 Write 334 Mixed 341 88% 400 MB/s	4K Read 36 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 24 142% 56 MB/s	DQ Read 180 DQ Write 244 DQ Mixed 54 85% 159 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 92.5% Great: 116%
Intel 330 Series 120GB-$188 11,188 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 69GB free Firmware: 300i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 42691975835749 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 920 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 830 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 149549 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 149549 (F2) Unknown 100 100 138987 (F9) Unknown 100 100 5557	71.1% Very good	Read 526 Write 146 Mixed 196 63% 289 MB/s	4K Read 35.2 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 14.8 132% 54.1 MB/s	DQ Read 53.4 DQ Write 115 DQ Mixed 27.8 37% 65.5 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 71.1% Great: 80%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 335GB free Firmware: 01.0 Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile)	41.8% Average	Read 69.6 Write 75.7 Mixed 60.2 51% 68.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 2.07 4K Mixed 0.42 103% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 41.8% Great: 76%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 145GB free Firmware: 01.01V01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 25 (03) Spinup time 184 169 3758 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5868 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 45 45 40324 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1113 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 501 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5366 (C2) HDA temperature 106 88 41 (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 200 198 1	56.3% Above average	Read 96.9 Write 99.1 Mixed 60.8 64% 85.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.95 4K Write 2.06 4K Mixed 0.49 132% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 56.3% Great: 76%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 172GB free Firmware: 05.0 Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	62.1% Good	Read 115 Write 101 Mixed 94.9 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 2.18 4K Mixed 0.44 113% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 62.1% Great: 76%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 163GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 165 1141 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4946 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 52 52 35698 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1224 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 594 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 671161 (C2) HDA temperature 121 109 29 (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 2	36% Below average	Read 64.5 Write 60.9 Mixed 59.4 46% 61.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 0.35 4K Mixed 0.16 50% 0.38 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 36% Great: 67%
WD WD1500HLFS-01G6U1 150GB 7,915 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 57GB free Firmware: 04.04V01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 198 196 3058 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9226 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 40 40 44512 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1328 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 609 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9226 (C2) HDA temperature 117 103 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	53.1% Above average	Read 91 Write 93.7 Mixed 88.5 68% 91 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 2.73 4K Mixed 0.56 147% 1.37 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 53.1% Great: 68%
Seagate BUP Slim BL 1TB 296 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 772GB free, PID ab24 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	47.2% Average	Read 108 Write 113 Mixed 74.1 124% 98.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 2.27 4K Mixed 0.4 93% 1.09 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 47.2% Great: 51%
SanDisk U3 Cruzer Micro 8GB 820 User benchmarks, average bench 7% 7GB free, PID 5406 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	8.1% Terrible	Read 24.3 Write 11 Mixed 11.1 17% 15.5 MB/s	4K Read 9.11 4K Write 0.01 4K Mixed 0.02 35% 3.04 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 8.1% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GB 24,592 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	89% Excellent	MC Read 32.6 MC Write 32.9 MC Mixed 28.4 89% 31.3 GB/s	SC Read 22.7 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 27.7 71% 24.9 GB/s	Latency 45.6 88% 45.6 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 88%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-PRO (Wi-Fi ac)

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	583x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	129x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	83x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	139x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	55x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	52x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	41x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	36x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	29x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	48x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	31x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	28x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $678

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