Asus Z97-K

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 73.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	102% 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	70.1% 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.

Very high background CPU (44%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-K (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160331
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 21 '17 at 13:06
Run Duration	405 Seconds
Run User	MYS-User
Background CPU	44%

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PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4460-$194 245,403 User benchmarks, average bench 62% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	73.9% Very good	Memory 98.4 1-Core 83.9 2-Core 164 70% 115 Pts	4-Core 278 8-Core 341 40% 310 Pts	64-Core 316 20% 316 Pts
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 72%

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: 381.65 Performing below potential (51^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	102% Outstanding	Lighting 131 Reflection 145 Parallax 125 107% 134 fps	MRender 113 Gravity 125 Splatting 103 92% 114 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS1311 120GB-$63 12,393 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 69GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS131122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3080 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 419 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 113 (AD) Unknown 100 100 983079 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 82 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 85 (F1) Unknown 100 100 5464	70.1% Very good	Read 504 Write 240 Mixed 296 76% 347 MB/s	4K Read 28 4K Write 62.4 4K Mixed 8.03 86% 32.8 MB/s	DQ Read 300 DQ Write 210 DQ Mixed 41.5 89% 184 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 91%
WD WD5000AVDS-63U7B1 500GB 24,608 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 192GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 211 (03) Spinup time 215 185 2225 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2010 (05) Reallocated sector count 185 185 301 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 9147 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1451 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 123 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1886 (C2) HDA temperature 103 98 40 (C4) Reallocation count 182 182 18 (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
Poor: 20% Great: 52%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 160GB free Firmware: KC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 1480 (03) Spinup time 100 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 5089 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 58 17209689332 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4602 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1446 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 55 639500326 (C2) HDA temperature 38 45 77309411366 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 34 27 1480 (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 85083302138358 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4205600912 (F2) Unknown 100 253 56142732	50.7% Above average	Read 88.6 Write 88 Mixed 91.3 67% 89.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 0.91 4K Mixed 0.75 131% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 50.7% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905584-015.A00LF KHX1600C10D3/8G 9905584-015.A00LF 16GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	55.3% Above average	MC Read 18.8 MC Write 19.2 MC Mixed 16.8 52% 18.3 GB/s	SC Read 14.1 SC Write 15.6 SC Mixed 16.3 44% 15.3 GB/s	Latency 44 91% 44 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 55.3% Great: 55%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-K - $147

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	880x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	667x
Core i5-4690KIntel $55Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	499x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	335x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	200x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	169x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	95x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	72x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $70Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	72x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	148x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	133x
CT102464BA160B.C16 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 11,058 samples	44x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $124	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $44	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	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