Asus Z97M-PLUS

Performance Results


Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (82nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 18 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 84%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	4.03% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	68.6% 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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus Z97M-PLUS (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colori
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150519
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 27 '17 at 14:49
Run Duration	111 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770-$75 176,321 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	84% Excellent	Memory 91.7 1-Core 113 2-Core 224 82% 143 Pts	4-Core 412 8-Core 589 63% 501 Pts	64-Core 591 37% 591 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Asus(1043 8534) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4531 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	4.03% Terrible	Lighting 3.97 Reflection 6.77 Parallax 6.78 3% 5.84 fps	MRender 10 Gravity 2.47 Splatting 7.83 6% 6.78 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 4.03% Great: 3%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow KC300 120GB-$80 2,344 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 65GB free (System drive) Firmware: 507KC4 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 106 106 12978174 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 53772990553901 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 988 (0D) Soft read error rate 47 47 111089342089214 (64) Unknown 0 0 18021 (AA) Unknown 0 0 3712 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 23 (B1) Unknown 0 0 6 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 22 40 64427130902 (C2) HDA temperature 22 40 64427130902 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 12978174 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 106 106 8787503087616 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 12978174 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 12978174 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 0 (E8) Unknown 0 0 14 (E9) Unknown 0 0 13161 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6920 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6920 (F2) Unknown 0 0 18332	68.6% Good	Read 488 Write 172 Mixed 214 64% 291 MB/s	4K Read 34.8 4K Write 98.3 4K Mixed 14.7 124% 49.2 MB/s	DQ Read 37.2 DQ Write 116 DQ Mixed 48.8 45% 67.2 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 68.6% Great: 86%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$64 143,477 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 564GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 194 171 3283 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 764 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 693 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 630 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 186 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9798 (C2) HDA temperature 124 103 23 (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	81.4% Excellent	Read 152 Write 131 Mixed 119 100% 134 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 2.18 4K Mixed 0.25 97% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 81.4% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-14900CL9-4GBSR Samsung M378B1G73DB0-CK0 0420 F3-14900CL9-4GBSR 16GB 9 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	50.8% Above average	MC Read 19 MC Write 17.4 MC Mixed 14.1 48% 16.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.4 SC Write 19.3 SC Mixed 18.1 49% 17.3 GB/s	Latency 64.6 62% 64.6 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 50.8% 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 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97M-PLUS - $350

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	300x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	173x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	162x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	112x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	76x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	60x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	35x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	26x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	26x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	44x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	31x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	24x

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Total price: $998

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $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