Asrock Z97 Professional

Performance Results


Gaming 94% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: 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 89.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	110% 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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Run History

5 months ago, 5 months ago, 3 months ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z97 Professional (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140709
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Oct 18 '20 at 21:27
Run Duration	124 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing as expected (40^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-$348 340,934 User benchmarks, average bench 84% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	89.2% Excellent	Memory 90 1-Core 128 2-Core 242 89% 153 Pts	4-Core 484 8-Core 645 74% 565 Pts	64-Core 639 43% 639 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.2% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 5700-XT-$400 292,752 User benchmarks, average bench 108% PowerColor(148C 2398) Ram: 8GB, Driver: 20.9.2 Performing below potential (64^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	110% Outstanding	Lighting 140 Reflection 114 Parallax 230 113% 162 fps	MRender 113 Gravity 133 Splatting 159 105% 135 fps
Poor: 98% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 116%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX500 1TB-$90 105,164 User benchmarks, average bench 108% 414GB free Firmware: M3CR032 SusWrite @10s intervals: 340 344 346 349 349 333 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile)	97.2% Outstanding	Read 363 Write 346 Mixed 321 SusWrite 344 77% 343 MB/s	4K Read 36.4 4K Write 86.3 4K Mixed 50.3 165% 57.7 MB/s	DQ Read 229 DQ Write 216 DQ Mixed 213 163% 220 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 97.2% Great: 125%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$29 2,182,040 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 632GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 101 94 107 113 80 71 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	74% Very good	Read 163 Write 152 Mixed 89.3 SusWrite 94.1 92% 125 MB/s	4K Read 1.4 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 1 218% 1.67 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 110%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 16,764 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	28.3% Poor	MC Read 9.2 MC Write 8.9 MC Mixed 7.8 25% 8.63 GB/s	SC Read 8.9 SC Write 9.4 SC Mixed 9.2 26% 9.17 GB/s	Latency 67.3 60% 67.3 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 28.3% Great: 62%

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

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Typical Z97 Professional Builds (Compare 113 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings.

Gaming 46%

Yacht

Desktop 89%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 40%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asrock Z97 Professional - $199

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 84%, 340,934 samples	64x
Core i5-4690KIntel $221Bench 79%, 219,579 samples	23x
Core i7-4790Intel $209Bench 76%, 202,700 samples	12x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $340Bench 50%, 648,344 samples	20x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $290Bench 57%, 1,110,464 samples	16x
GTX 1070Nvidia $330Bench 79%, 993,871 samples	8x

SSD
Raid 0 Volume 384GBIntelBench 130%, 1,291 samples	5x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $70Bench 105%, 768,156 samples	5x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 95%, 162,787 samples	4x

RAM
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 64%, 21,165 samples	6x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 66%, 17,590 samples	6x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 25,194 samples	5x

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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $887

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-10600K $257	Nvidia RTX 3060-Ti $400	Crucial MX500 250GB $47
Intel Core i5-9600K $219	Nvidia RTX 3070 $500	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $78
Intel Core i5-10400F $161	Nvidia GTX 1660S (Super) $240	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $40

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $43	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $79	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $29	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $71	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $85	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $649	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16