Asus Z97-WS

Performance Results


Gaming 62% Destroyer	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 54% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 94.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	58.7% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	115% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-WS (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160114
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 08 '17 at 13:33
Run Duration	242 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing above expectations (79^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-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.5% Outstanding	Memory 97.9 1-Core 144 2-Core 280 97% 174 Pts	4-Core 490 8-Core 755 77% 623 Pts	64-Core 760 47% 760 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 94.5% Great: 87%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Asus(1043 8534) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4624 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 3% Great: 3%
AMD R9 390X-$340 26,573 User benchmarks, average bench 54% XFX(1682 9395) CLim: 1050 MHz, MLim: 1300 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.5.2 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	58.7% Above average	Lighting 73.4 Reflection 62.5 Parallax 90.9 60% 75.6 fps	MRender 61.6 Gravity 61.6 Splatting 79.3 56% 67.5 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 58.7% Great: 57%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 240GB 13,500 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 136GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. Max speed: Unknown Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	115% Outstanding	Read 976 Write 298 Mixed 411 122% 562 MB/s	4K Read 41.7 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 23.6 152% 58.4 MB/s	DQ Read 301 DQ Write 299 DQ Mixed 84.1 123% 228 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 133%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 110GB free Firmware: 2B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	225% Outstanding	Read 1,935 Write 892 Mixed 1,113 288% 1,313 MB/s	4K Read 52 4K Write 176 4K Mixed 53.7 240% 93.8 MB/s	DQ Read 625 DQ Write 319 DQ Mixed 193 218% 379 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 225% Great: 243%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 120GB 699 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 81GB free Firmware: 1.0. Max speed: Unknown Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	57.8% Above average	Read 390 Write 120 Mixed 174 50% 228 MB/s	4K Read 25.7 4K Write 83.9 4K Mixed 16.4 104% 42 MB/s	DQ Read 100 DQ Write 105 DQ Mixed 34.1 44% 79.7 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 57.8% Great: 94%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 1TB 8,981 User benchmarks, average bench 108% 552GB free Firmware: 1.0. Max speed: Unknown Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	141% Outstanding	Read 276 Write 216 Mixed 220 178% 237 MB/s	4K Read 1.55 4K Write 3.47 4K Mixed 0.81 219% 1.95 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 141% Great: 184%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 500GB-$49 47,332 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 273GB free Firmware: 0003LVM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 85 79 12487412 (03) Spinup time 100 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1714 (05) Reallocated sector count 79 79 440 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 13034542604 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 113687784337851 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1695 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 18044 (BC) Unknown 100 99 7 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 52 571998234 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 31 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 27 27 147148 (C2) HDA temperature 26 48 21474836506 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 46 39 12487412 (C4) Reallocation count 88 88 50367081491173 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 15 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 15 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	49.6% Average	Read 89.1 Write 83.7 Mixed 81.8 64% 84.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 0.95 4K Mixed 0.38 82% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 49.6% Great: 58%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 500GB-$49 47,332 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 71GB free Firmware: 0003LVM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 94 91 221415461 (03) Spinup time 100 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1528 (05) Reallocated sector count 96 96 87 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 8788087160 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 124012885718643 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1507 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 1034 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 46 588840987 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 67 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 20 20 160665 (C2) HDA temperature 27 54 -8589934565 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 49 43 221415461 (C4) Reallocation count 87 87 85422604562313 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 2 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	45.1% Average	Read 80.1 Write 77.3 Mixed 57.8 54% 71.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 0.88 4K Mixed 0.39 84% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 45.1% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown SP008GXLYU240NSA 2x8GB 52 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 2400 MHz clocked @ 2402 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	87.9% Excellent	MC Read 32 MC Write 32.8 MC Mixed 27.6 88% 30.8 GB/s	SC Read 21.7 SC Write 26.5 SC Mixed 27.4 72% 25.2 GB/s	Latency 46.3 86% 46.3 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 88%

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Gaming 97%

Nuclear submarine

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 81%

Aircraft carrier

Motherboard: Asus Z97-WS - $318

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	76x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	22x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	13x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	13x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	13x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	11x

SSD
MX500 1TBCrucial $66Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	6x
980 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 2TBSamsung $168Bench 416%, 138,083 samples	5x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	5x

RAM
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	6x
RipjawsX DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 54%, 8,026 samples	5x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	4x

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Value: 65% - Good

Total price: $1,217

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