Asrock Z97 Professional

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 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 84.8%, 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	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.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z97 Professional (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140709
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 14 '20 at 00:18
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing as expected (43^rd 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 way above expectations (89^th percentile)	84.8% Excellent	Memory 92.8 1-Core 120 2-Core 239 85% 151 Pts	4-Core 414 8-Core 652 66% 533 Pts	64-Core 646 40% 646 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 84.8% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 5700-XT-$199 254,908 User benchmarks, average bench 98% PowerColor(148C 2398) Ram: 8GB, Driver: 20.7.2 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	112% Outstanding	Lighting 141 Reflection 115 Parallax 230 115% 162 fps	MRender 113 Gravity 134 Splatting 159 113% 135 fps
Poor: 91% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 104%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX500 1TB-$66 202,785 User benchmarks, average bench 106% 668GB free Firmware: M3CR032 SusWrite @10s intervals: 336 339 336 342 344 344 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile)	95.4% Outstanding	Read 366 Write 337 Mixed 318 SusWrite 340 77% 340 MB/s	4K Read 35.2 4K Write 83.8 4K Mixed 48.6 160% 55.9 MB/s	DQ Read 232 DQ Write 217 DQ Mixed 210 162% 220 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 95.4% Great: 125%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 468GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 88 119 46 85 140 145 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	46.1% Average	Read 56.8 Write 43.7 Mixed 48.8 SusWrite 104 47% 63.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 1 148% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 46.1% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 21,220 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	32.6% Below average	MC Read 10.6 MC Write 10.8 MC Mixed 9.3 29% 10.2 GB/s	SC Read 9.3 SC Write 10.3 SC Mixed 10.4 29% 10 GB/s	Latency 62.5 64% 62.5 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 32.6% Great: 62%

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Typical Z97 Professional Builds (Compare 86 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asrock Z97 Professional - $199

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	45x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	12x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	9x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	20x
GTX 1070-TiNvidia $299Bench 94%, 412,133 samples	9x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	6x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	5x
SSDSC2BB800H4 800GBIntelBench 84%, 43 samples	4x
Extreme Pro 240GBSanDisk $79Bench 92%, 10,862 samples	3x

RAM
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	13x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	5x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GBCorsairBench 55%, 18,444 samples	4x

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Total price: $827

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 $178	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) $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