Asus Z97M-PLUS/BR

Performance Results


Gaming 57% Gunboat	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 47% 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 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 84.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	64.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	43.7% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Motherboard	Asus Z97M-PLUS/BR (all builds)
Memory	14.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160222
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 06 '17 at 05:08
Run Duration	169 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	6%

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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 i7-4790-$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 (100^th percentile)	84.6% Excellent	Memory 89.4 1-Core 116 2-Core 229 82% 145 Pts	4-Core 436 8-Core 588 65% 512 Pts	64-Core 586 36% 586 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 84.6% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Gigabyte(1458 3739) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	64.9% Good	Lighting 81.9 Reflection 79.3 Parallax 70.2 67% 77.1 fps	MRender 72.8 Gravity 74.9 Splatting 76.5 61% 74.7 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 64.9% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
MZMPC032HBCD-000D1 32GB 229 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 11GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXM12D1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10578 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 5301 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 80 80 725 (B2) Unknown 86 86 54 (B3) Unknown 91 91 74 (B4) Unknown 91 91 742 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (E8) Unknown 86 86 354 (F1) Unknown 99 99 16081831014 (F2) Unknown 99 99 20109674503	43.7% Average	Read 363 Write 83.7 Mixed 136 42% 194 MB/s	4K Read 21.4 4K Write 30.5 4K Mixed 12.6 65% 21.5 MB/s	DQ Read 190 DQ Write 33.2 DQ Mixed 27.8 42% 83.6 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 43.7% Great: 44%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 488GB free Firmware: JC4A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 206539870 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1699 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 68 60 98907944075 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2109 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1364 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 42 941035683865 (C2) HDA temperature 25 58 64424509465 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 33 30 206539870 (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 139015206475719 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3359955993 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1865302846	58.7% Above average	Read 106 Write 99 Mixed 91.3 74% 98.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 0.6 128% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 58.7% Great: 68%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 332GB free Firmware: KC65 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 146778000 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4758 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 4306180676 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2979 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2527 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 51 454492187 (C2) HDA temperature 27 49 51539607579 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 48 32 146778000 (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 -70729521427086 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2945465862 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2511754453	56.2% Above average	Read 101 Write 94.3 Mixed 93.5 73% 96.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.27 4K Write 1.89 4K Mixed 0.29 79% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 56.2% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 303GB free Firmware: CC37 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 19372414 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7647 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 40696118 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7491 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 37 3483 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 11 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 53 437518362 (C2) HDA temperature 26 47 47244640282 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 46 24 19372414 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 6 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 23738284261120 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3505392033 (F2) Unknown 100 253 219062981	62.8% Good	Read 111 Write 108 Mixed 90.2 77% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 0.37 100% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 62.8% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 2,134 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	57.7% Above average	MC Read 19.8 MC Write 21.7 MC Mixed 18.1 57% 19.9 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 19.7 SC Mixed 18.5 51% 17.9 GB/s	Latency 68 59% 68 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 57.7% Great: 63%

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Gaming 38%

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Desktop 77%

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Workstation 32%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97M-PLUS/BR

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	75x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	63x
Core i5-4690Intel $52Bench 67%, 73,695 samples	23x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	46x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	22x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	21x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	21x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	12x
SSDNow V300 240GBKingston $35Bench 64%, 176,713 samples	11x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	28x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	15x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	10x

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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $363

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $15	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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