Asus Z97M-PLUS/BR

Performance Results


Gaming 93% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 82.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	112% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	50% 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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus Z97M-PLUS/BR (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160222
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 13 '20 at 17:10
Run Duration	139 Seconds
Run User	JPN-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4440-$128 81,111 User benchmarks, average bench 61% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.1 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	82.8% Excellent	Memory 95.7 1-Core 101 2-Core 204 78% 133 Pts	4-Core 406 8-Core 402 54% 404 Pts	64-Core 396 24% 396 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 82.8% Great: 70%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 5700-XT-$199 254,908 User benchmarks, average bench 98% XFX(1682 5701) Ram: 8GB, Driver: 20.1.4 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	112% Outstanding	Lighting 139 Reflection 118 Parallax 235 113% 164 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 135 Splatting 166 117% 140 fps
Poor: 91% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 104%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
128gb SATA FLASH DRIVE 128GB 178 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 11GB free (System drive) Firmware: SFPS855A SusWrite @10s intervals: 6.6 44 3.6 14 119 105 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	50% Above average	Read 473 Write 128 Mixed 159 SusWrite 48.6 44% 202 MB/s	4K Read 15.4 4K Write 63 4K Mixed 15.6 77% 31.3 MB/s	DQ Read 113 DQ Write 124 DQ Mixed 20 42% 85.7 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 50% Great: 80%
Samsung HD322GJ 320GB 9,769 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 83GB free Firmware: 1AR10001 SusWrite @10s intervals: 95 121 123 119 122 122 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	72.5% Very good	Read 135 Write 27.5 Mixed 72.2 SusWrite 117 65% 88 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 0.6 140% 1.23 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 81%
Samsung HD322HJ 320GB-$44 40,147 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 38GB free Firmware: 1AC01118 SusWrite @10s intervals: 87 87 86 87 86 87 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	52.6% Above average	Read 96.3 Write 98.7 Mixed 58.5 SusWrite 86.8 62% 85.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 1.2 198% 1.27 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 52.6% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C10D3/4G 1319 KRE-D3U1866M/4G KHX1600C10D3/4G 1319 KRE-D3U1866M/4G 16GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 1960, 1960, 1960, 1960 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	74.7% Very good	MC Read 27.5 MC Write 27.8 MC Mixed 24.1 76% 26.5 GB/s	SC Read 18.1 SC Write 19.3 SC Mixed 23.4 58% 20.3 GB/s	Latency 55 73% 55 ns
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 74.7% Great: 74%

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

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Gaming 38%

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Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97M-PLUS/BR

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	75x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	63x
Core i5-4690Intel $52Bench 67%, 73,695 samples	23x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	46x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	22x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	21x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	21x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	12x
SSDNow V300 240GBKingston $35Bench 64%, 176,713 samples	11x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	28x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	15x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	10x

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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $363

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 $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