Asrock Z97 Anniversary

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 65% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (39th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 61 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 80.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	97.5% 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	72% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z97 Anniversary (all builds)
Memory	10.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140611
Uptime	1.9 Days
Run Date	Feb 03 '17 at 18:42
Run Duration	160 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	11%

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PC Performing below expectations (39^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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	80.3% Excellent	Memory 83.1 1-Core 120 2-Core 235 82% 146 Pts	4-Core 417 8-Core 623 65% 520 Pts	64-Core 516 32% 516 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.49 Performing below potential (21^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	97.5% Outstanding	Lighting 125 Reflection 135 Parallax 118 102% 126 fps	MRender 107 Gravity 124 Splatting 100 90% 110 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 97.5% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Apotop S3C 128GB 1,536 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 17GB free (System drive) Firmware: N0530A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1915 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1390 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 101 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 51698 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 6 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 43 (A3) Unknown 100 100 3 (A4) Unknown 100 100 260604 (A5) Unknown 100 100 301 (A6) Unknown 100 100 200 (A7) Unknown 100 100 257 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 94 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (B1) Unknown 100 100 950 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 719142 (F2) Unknown 100 100 412336	72% Very good	Read 509 Write 142 Mixed 225 64% 292 MB/s	4K Read 26.1 4K Write 65.8 4K Mixed 29.3 112% 40.4 MB/s	DQ Read 263 DQ Write 125 DQ Mixed 61.6 81% 150 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 72% Great: 83%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 505GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 33955478 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4992 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 56 56 3071175680225 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10597 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3018 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 12 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 49 471072796 (C2) HDA temperature 28 51 60129542172 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 39 27 33955478 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -97568772045638 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2832935467 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1915740875	55.2% Above average	Read 98.8 Write 93.7 Mixed 94.9 72% 95.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.23 4K Mixed 0.35 84% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 55.2% Great: 68%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$31 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 152GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 170 2325 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4506 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 9544 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1382 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 105 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4400 (C2) HDA temperature 112 101 31 (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	68.2% Good	Read 131 Write 106 Mixed 111 87% 116 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 2.11 4K Mixed 0.28 121% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 68.2% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x8GB 236,291 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (36^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	51.6% Above average	MC Read 18.9 MC Write 19.2 MC Mixed 15.9 51% 18 GB/s	SC Read 13.6 SC Write 17.2 SC Mixed 13.7 42% 14.8 GB/s	Latency 74.9 53% 74.9 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 51.6% Great: 97%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z97 Anniversary - $120

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	327x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	245x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	112x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	141x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	96x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	77x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	69x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	56x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	40x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	36x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	36x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	29x

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Total price: $768

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $64	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16