Asus GRYPHON Z97 ARMOR EDITION

Performance Results


Gaming 50% Yacht	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 42% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (93rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 7 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 79%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	60.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	60.2% 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

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

Motherboard	Asus GRYPHON Z97 ARMOR EDITION (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141105
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 28 '21 at 06:11
Run Duration	132 Seconds
Run User	IDN-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	79% Very good	Memory 91.6 1-Core 107 2-Core 215 79% 138 Pts	4-Core 359 8-Core 548 56% 453 Pts	64-Core 563 35% 563 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 79% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85AC) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2052 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 457.09 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	60.4% Good	Lighting 75.5 Reflection 77.6 Parallax 71.2 62% 74.8 fps	MRender 69.1 Gravity 74.6 Splatting 70.2 58% 71.3 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 60.4% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Team L7 EVO SSD 120GB 731 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 46GB free (System drive) Firmware: V2.4 SusWrite @10s intervals: 164 105 79 80 80 81 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	60.2% Good	Read 464 Write 348 Mixed 327 SusWrite 98.2 69% 309 MB/s	4K Read 34.6 4K Write 70.8 4K Mixed 13 107% 39.5 MB/s	DQ Read 112 DQ Write 126 DQ Mixed 21 43% 86.2 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 60.2% Great: 64%
Patriot Blaze 120GB-$30 2,058 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 96GB free Firmware: S9FM02.0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 64 73 76 82 80 81 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	64.4% Good	Read 512 Write 76.4 Mixed 170 SusWrite 75.9 45% 209 MB/s	4K Read 36.8 4K Write 69.2 4K Mixed 17.9 115% 41.3 MB/s	DQ Read 169 DQ Write 95.8 DQ Mixed 10.1 40% 91.8 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 64.4% Great: 66%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown PSD38G16002 0423 TEAMGROUP-UD3-1600 0423 TEAMGROUP-UD3-1600 16GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	58% Above average	MC Read 21.2 MC Write 21.1 MC Mixed 16.6 56% 19.6 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 18.8 55% 19.2 GB/s	Latency 64.9 62% 64.9 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 58% Great: 58%

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

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 81%

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Motherboard: Asus GRYPHON Z97 ARMOR EDITION

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	106x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	35x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	34x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	25x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	16x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	16x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	13x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	12x
S3 500G 500GBSandiskBench 92%, 12,292 samples	12x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	10x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	7x
Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 54%, 12,350 samples	7x

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Value: 63% - Good

Total price: $909

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	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) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	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