Asus Z97-K

Performance Results


Gaming 52% Yacht	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 44% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 81.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	59.1% 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	141% 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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-K (all builds)
Memory	14 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20160331
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 07 '17 at 19:54
Run Duration	222 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing above expectations (69^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 3.85 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	81.1% Excellent	Memory 91.7 1-Core 117 2-Core 225 83% 145 Pts	4-Core 380 8-Core 602 60% 491 Pts	64-Core 605 37% 605 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 81.1% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Gigabyte(1458 366A) CLim: 1519 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 385.28 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	59.1% Above average	Lighting 75.5 Reflection 74.3 Parallax 72.7 62% 74.2 fps	MRender 73.8 Gravity 68.9 Splatting 60.2 55% 67.6 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 59.1% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force MP500 NVMe PCIe M.2 120GB-$69 11,475 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 39GB free (System drive) Firmware: E7FM02.1 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	141% Outstanding	Read 749 Write 699 Mixed 758 164% 735 MB/s	4K Read 33.1 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 46.6 164% 60.9 MB/s	DQ Read 441 DQ Write 336 DQ Mixed 95.2 151% 291 MB/s
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 141% Great: 185%
Hitachi HDS725050KLA360 500GB-$40 5,497 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 234GB free Firmware: K2AOAH0A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 160 160 200 (03) Spinup time 108 108 51581682310 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2099 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 136 136 31 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 60974 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1314 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 2271 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2271 (C2) HDA temperature 152 152 231928889380 (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 200 253 0	28.7% Poor	Read 49.2 Write 50.1 Mixed 49.5 37% 49.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.96 4K Mixed 0.36 106% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 28.7% Great: 34%
Toshiba MQ01ABD100 1TB-$56 322,803 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 148GB free Firmware: AX001U Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 2581 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 8322 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 13436 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2923 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 32 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 330 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 78 78 223531 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 227633987614 (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 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 85 85 6168 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 264 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	50.3% Above average	Read 86.2 Write 89 Mixed 84 65% 86.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.19 62% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 50.3% Great: 62%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$27 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 20GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 237495784 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3698 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 120813175 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11392 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1463 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 69 58 522125343 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 14 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 78 78 45993 (C2) HDA temperature 31 42 47244640287 (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 -115650584371011 (F1) Unknown 100 253 41461130772 (F2) Unknown 100 253 752214266100	94.2% Outstanding	Read 181 Write 147 Mixed 149 120% 159 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.78 4K Mixed 0.24 81% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 94.2% Great: 112%
Samsung HM100UI 1TB-$47 906 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 2GB free Firmware: 2AM10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1465 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 80 75 6206 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6230 (05) Reallocated sector count 90 90 1248 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 16361 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 27 27 74029 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2800 (B5) Unknown 87 87 295719253 (BF) G-sense error rate 71 71 295142 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 56 193274314782 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 90 90 1248 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 108 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 11272 (DF) Load/unload retry count 27 27 74029 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 2 2 990127	28.6% Poor	Read 49.2 Write 50.1 Mixed 45.9 36% 48.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.16 4K Mixed 0.2 62% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 28.6% Great: 53%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x4GB 5,347 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	61.4% Good	MC Read 22.1 MC Write 22.2 MC Mixed 18.6 60% 21 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 20.9 57% 20 GB/s	Latency 64.6 62% 64.6 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 63%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-K - $147

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	879x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	665x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	498x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	333x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	200x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	168x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	95x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	72x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	72x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	148x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	133x
CT102464BA160B.C16 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 11,058 samples	44x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16