Asus B85M-GAMER

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 54% Yacht	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 44% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (37th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 63 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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	67.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus B85M-GAMER (all builds)
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150923
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 07 '20 at 12:15
Run Duration	105 Seconds
Run User	MYS-User
Background CPU	21%

PC Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	81.2% Excellent	Memory 92.8 1-Core 114 2-Core 207 80% 138 Pts	4-Core 380 8-Core 523 57% 451 Pts	64-Core 590 36% 590 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 81.2% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 8549) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1291 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 441.66 Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	67.7% Good	Lighting 87.5 Reflection 91.4 Parallax 89 71% 89.3 fps	MRender 77.7 Gravity 80.6 Splatting 67 61% 75.1 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 67.7% Great: 87%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 175GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC43 SusWrite @10s intervals: 119 141 140 149 157 152 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	69.2% Good	Read 98 Write 100 Mixed 69.3 SusWrite 143 75% 103 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.7 144% 1 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 69.2% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMZ8GX3M1A1600C10 Kingston 9905471-084.A00LF 16GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	58.2% Above average	MC Read 21.6 MC Write 21.2 MC Mixed 17.1 57% 20 GB/s	SC Read 14.5 SC Write 20.3 SC Mixed 18.2 50% 17.7 GB/s	Latency 62.5 64% 62.5 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 58.2% Great: 58%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 25%

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Desktop 72%

Battleship

Workstation 20%

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Motherboard: Asus B85M-GAMER

CPU
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	128x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	82x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	49x

GPU
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	66x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	49x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	38x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	21x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	16x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	15x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	28x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	13x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x4GBKingstonBench 49%, 26,466 samples	12x

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Value: 52% - Above average

Total price: $421

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $35	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