Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

Performance Results


Gaming 13% Tree trunk	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 12% Tree trunk


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 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	9.45% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	72.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	10GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 10GB 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

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

Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO GAMER (all builds)
Memory	7.9 GB free of 10 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150407
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Jan 06 '17 at 17:43
Run Duration	175 Seconds
Run User	JOR-User
Background CPU	0%

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 i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	85.4% Excellent	Memory 95.5 1-Core 114 2-Core 225 83% 145 Pts	4-Core 406 8-Core 636 64% 521 Pts	64-Core 636 39% 636 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 85.4% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GT 740 30,433 User benchmarks, average bench 7% EVGA(3842 3748) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1084 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	9.45% Terrible	Lighting 10.7 Reflection 9.65 Parallax 12 9% 10.8 fps	MRender 13.9 Gravity 12.5 Splatting 13.4 11% 13.3 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 9.45% Great: 8%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 126GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3J96R9 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 5 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 746 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 105 (64) Unknown 100 100 1773824 (65) Unknown 100 100 430816 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 11 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 99 99 522 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1378 (B7) Unknown 98 98 10 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 25 100 167504838681 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 5 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 5 (E7) Temperature 98 98 2 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3276 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2274 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2658 (F2) Unknown 100 100 4983 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 5	72.1% Very good	Read 486 Write 258 Mixed 263 74% 336 MB/s	4K Read 31.3 4K Write 53.1 4K Mixed 12.7 92% 32.4 MB/s	DQ Read 322 DQ Write 153 DQ Mixed 26.1 76% 167 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 88%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$32 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 171GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 170 2158 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1165 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3494 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 596 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 56 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1111 (C2) HDA temperature 117 99 26 (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 0	78.6% Very good	Read 159 Write 115 Mixed 112 96% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 2.34 4K Mixed 0.24 89% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 78.6% Great: 109%
WD Blue 320GB (2010)-$40 13,720 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 112GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 529 (03) Spinup time 136 136 4158 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5228 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10773 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2347 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 451 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4776 (C2) HDA temperature 114 93 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 0	38.4% Below average	Read 73.9 Write 59.8 Mixed 91 57% 74.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.33 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.33 80% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 38.4% Great: 65%
WD My Passport 0740 500GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 82GB free Firmware: 1015 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 169 (03) Spinup time 181 174 1916 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4669 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 15472 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2071 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1499 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 178 178 67930 (C2) HDA temperature 118 98 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	28.1% Poor	Read 47.2 Write 50.2 Mixed 46.8 36% 48.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.68 4K Mixed 0.14 68% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 28.1% Great: 30%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 1315 BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. Kingston 9905471-001.A01LF 10GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 2048 MB Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	51.7% Above average	MC Read 18 MC Write 17.7 MC Mixed 14.8 48% 16.8 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 19.3 SC Mixed 17.7 50% 17.5 GB/s	Latency 55.7 72% 55.7 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 51.7% Great: 56%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,408x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	548x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	295x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	458x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	222x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	182x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	189x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	107x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	74x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	127x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	109x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	104x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $165	Nvidia RTX 4070 $542	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $29

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	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