Asus H97M-E

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 43% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	81% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Motherboard	Asus H97M-E (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141009
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Oct 20 '17 at 03:50
Run Duration	111 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing as expected (55^th 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 (100^th percentile)	76.6% Very good	Memory 89 1-Core 97.6 2-Core 191 74% 126 Pts	4-Core 373 8-Core 369 50% 371 Pts	64-Core 346 21% 346 Pts
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 72%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% PNY(196E 119D) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81% Excellent	Lighting 102 Reflection 114 Parallax 95.9 83% 104 fps	MRender 96 Gravity 90.1 Splatting 96.9 78% 94.3 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 81% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 669GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 141499775 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 9181 (05) Reallocated sector count 93 93 312 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 7905636 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9068 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2231 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 8590065666 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 54 403963928 (C2) HDA temperature 24 46 51539607576 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 34 14 141499775 (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 -105338367885376 (F1) Unknown 100 253 353428458 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3487081841	60.7% Good	Read 109 Write 102 Mixed 103 79% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.43 104% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 60.7% Great: 68%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 163GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 85721280 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1230 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 299188409 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6845 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1229 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 89 89 11 (BE) vendor-specific 74 51 437518362 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 21 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4262 (C2) HDA temperature 26 49 51539607578 (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 94583769799402 (F1) Unknown 100 253 43211923741 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3611310504285	80.3% Excellent	Read 136 Write 144 Mixed 147 108% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.33 4K Write 1.02 4K Mixed 0.12 46% 0.49 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 77,652 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	31.9% Below average	MC Read 9.9 MC Write 11 MC Mixed 9.6 29% 10.2 GB/s	SC Read 9.1 SC Write 10.2 SC Mixed 9.9 28% 9.73 GB/s	Latency 68.5 58% 68.5 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 31.9% Great: 63%

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Gaming 8%

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Desktop 65%

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Workstation 7%

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Motherboard: Asus H97M-E - $99

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	585x
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	388x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	305x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	199x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	192x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	159x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	70x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	68x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	64x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	107x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	63x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 27,462 samples	43x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $277

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