Asus GRYPHON Z97

Performance Results


Gaming 105% UFO	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 88% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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 95%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	111% 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	103% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia 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 GRYPHON Z97 (all builds)
Memory	26.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Jul 18 '17 at 01:48
Run Duration	194 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (77^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95% Outstanding	Memory 96.1 1-Core 135 2-Core 263 92% 165 Pts	4-Core 508 8-Core 713 77% 610 Pts	64-Core 709 44% 709 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 95% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3702) CLim: 2088 MHz, MLim: 2527 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	111% Outstanding	Lighting 145 Reflection 154 Parallax 149 118% 150 fps	MRender 120 Gravity 144 Splatting 116 103% 127 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Extreme II 240GB-$110 3,009 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 105GB free (System drive) Firmware: R1311 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 17936 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2480 (A6) Unknown 100 100 105 (A7) Unknown 100 100 35 (A8) Unknown 100 100 357 (A9) Unknown 100 100 411 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 210 (AE) Unknown 100 100 126 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 139 597001109531 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1792 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 52986 (F1) Unknown 253 253 26802 (F2) Unknown 253 253 16274 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	103% Outstanding	Read 475 Write 391 Mixed 378 92% 415 MB/s	4K Read 35 4K Write 123 4K Mixed 28.2 154% 61.9 MB/s	DQ Read 360 DQ Write 298 DQ Mixed 67.9 122% 242 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 109%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 31GB free Firmware: Z32080RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 3271 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 447 (A5) Unknown 100 100 21485453452 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 9 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3 (AE) Unknown 100 100 41 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 60 33 287762808872 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 197571379246 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 748 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1311 (F1) Unknown 253 253 839 (F2) Unknown 253 253 6613 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	77.2% Very good	Read 505 Write 322 Mixed 243 79% 357 MB/s	4K Read 28.2 4K Write 90.3 4K Mixed 4.05 96% 40.8 MB/s	DQ Read 233 DQ Write 275 DQ Mixed 3.89 72% 171 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 77.2% Great: 86%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$80 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 183 179 5808 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 169 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2242 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 169 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 8 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3839 (C2) HDA temperature 121 113 29 (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	79.9% Very good	Read 141 Write 138 Mixed 123 100% 134 MB/s	4K Read 0.99 4K Write 2.46 4K Mixed 0.21 110% 1.22 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 79.9% Great: 96%
WD Blue 2TB (2015)-$78 253,816 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 513GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 173 6075 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 526 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 3725 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 441 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 41 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 190 190 31154 (C2) HDA temperature 121 110 29 (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	67.3% Good	Read 115 Write 119 Mixed 124 90% 120 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.97 4K Mixed 0.19 92% 1 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 67.3% Great: 84%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 59GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 79228247 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 85 85 15669 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 499754372 (09) Power-on hours count 57 57 38506 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6732 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 131098 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 55 572391456 (C2) HDA temperature 32 45 51539607584 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 27 23 79228247 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 5 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -1327144838252 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2742214822 (F2) Unknown 100 253 649696985	50.7% Above average	Read 89.9 Write 86.7 Mixed 88.4 67% 88.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.85 4K Write 1.27 4K Mixed 0.54 119% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 50.7% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GB 12,722 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz clocked @ 1904 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	71.2% Very good	MC Read 26 MC Write 25.7 MC Mixed 22.2 70% 24.6 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 23.6 60% 21.1 GB/s	Latency 53.6 75% 53.6 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 71.2% Great: 80%

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Gaming 65%

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Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 55%

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Motherboard: Asus GRYPHON Z97 - $176

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	65x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	18x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	17x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	21x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	11x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	10x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	9x
840 Evo 500GBSamsung $150Bench 103%, 68,337 samples	8x
SSDNow V300 240GBKingston $35Bench 64%, 176,713 samples	7x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	6x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBCorsairBench 55%, 6,625 samples	5x
RipjawsX DDR3 2400 C11 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 68%, 1,661 samples	5x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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