Asrock Z97 Extreme6

Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (83rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 17 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	60.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	72.3% 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.

Very high background CPU (47%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

Motherboard	Asrock Z97 Extreme6 (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160517
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Oct 31 '17 at 23:03
Run Duration	134 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	47%

PC Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.6% Outstanding	Memory 92.9 1-Core 124 2-Core 246 87% 154 Pts	4-Core 510 8-Core 512 68% 511 Pts	64-Core 507 31% 507 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 90.6% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Gigabyte(1458 367A) CLim: 1718 MHz, MLim: 1902 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.0 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	60.6% Good	Lighting 74.9 Reflection 69.2 Parallax 56.4 61% 66.8 fps	MRender 82 Gravity 75.5 Splatting 65 60% 74.2 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 60.6% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY SSD2SC240G1CS1754D117-820 240GB 5,703 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 165GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS111101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1207 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1169 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 41 (B1) Unknown 0 0 177 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 31 100 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 31412 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 103 (E7) Temperature 100 100 31 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2 (EA) Unknown 0 0 63 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9590 (F2) Unknown 0 0 6275	72.3% Very good	Read 373 Write 278 Mixed 316 72% 322 MB/s	4K Read 24.3 4K Write 72.3 4K Mixed 24.6 107% 40.4 MB/s	DQ Read 215 DQ Write 158 DQ Mixed 65.8 82% 146 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 72.3% Great: 87%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 862GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 173 1916 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 158 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 225 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 146 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 75 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 103 (C2) HDA temperature 120 105 23 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	105% Outstanding	Read 179 Write 186 Mixed 173 135% 179 MB/s	4K Read 1.4 4K Write 2.79 4K Mixed 0.27 140% 1.49 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 108%
Seagate ST3750528AS 750GB-$65 22,230 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 651GB free Firmware: HP40 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 145635144 (03) Spinup time 95 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 76 76 24835 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 62 60 1267451864577 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 26301 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 88 37 12360 (B4) Unknown 100 100 690156868 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590196740 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 63 404029464 (C2) HDA temperature 24 40 73014444056 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 54 40 145635144 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	57.6% Above average	Read 102 Write 98.9 Mixed 88.2 72% 96.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.55 121% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 57.6% Great: 65%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GB 8,026 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	69% Good	MC Read 24 MC Write 26.6 MC Mixed 22.3 69% 24.3 GB/s	SC Read 16.4 SC Write 23 SC Mixed 19.8 56% 19.7 GB/s	Latency 62.3 64% 62.3 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 71%

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Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asrock Z97 Extreme6 - $220

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	555x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	146x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	77x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	127x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	77x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	54x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	38x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	31x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	25x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	25x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 51%, 21,220 samples	24x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	24x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $877

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $275	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $35	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