Asrock Z97 Extreme3

Performance Results


Gaming 108% UFO	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 84% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 85.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	130% 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	53.1% 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.

Very high background CPU (41%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asrock Z97 Extreme3 (all builds)
Memory	9.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150512
Uptime	7.7 Days
Run Date	Nov 08 '17 at 16:43
Run Duration	148 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	41%

PC Performing above expectations (63^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	85.5% Excellent	Memory 90.5 1-Core 129 2-Core 253 88% 157 Pts	4-Core 463 8-Core 476 62% 470 Pts	64-Core 457 28% 457 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 85.5% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	130% Outstanding	Lighting 179 Reflection 213 Parallax 188 146% 193 fps	MRender 134 Gravity 185 Splatting 127 120% 149 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 130% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX200 1TB-$270 3,707 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 115GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 252 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 302 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 5 (AE) Unknown 100 100 79 (B4) Unknown 0 0 10432 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 74 54 197569478682 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 10610774290 (F7) Unknown 100 100 331666263 (F8) Unknown 100 100 101506221	80.3% Excellent	Read 471 Write 310 Mixed 300 80% 361 MB/s	4K Read 30.4 4K Write 98.4 4K Mixed 21.5 126% 50.1 MB/s	DQ Read 93.5 DQ Write 163 DQ Mixed 32.6 52% 96.5 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 104%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 38GB free (System drive) Firmware: 541ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 127090944 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 1 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 53171695145364 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 909 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 451 (B1) Unknown 0 0 97 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 25 48 1013615427609 (C2) HDA temperature 25 48 1013615427609 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 127090944 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 127090944 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 127090944 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 4294967296 (E9) Unknown 0 0 16220 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11426 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11426 (F2) Unknown 0 0 12979	53.1% Above average	Read 436 Write 94.8 Mixed 175 51% 235 MB/s	4K Read 19.3 4K Write 97.1 4K Mixed 10.6 94% 42.3 MB/s	DQ Read 18.6 DQ Write 120 DQ Mixed 10.1 25% 49.7 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 53.1% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$61 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 207114544 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8547 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 25295999 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14245 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 299 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 71 56 521666589 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 7 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 263499 (C2) HDA temperature 29 44 60129542173 (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 -11991548685178 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8922626306 (F2) Unknown 100 253 257863255553	95.9% Outstanding	Read 184 Write 150 Mixed 137 118% 157 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.19 66% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR3 1600 4x4GB 473 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (36^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	50.6% Above average	MC Read 17.3 MC Write 17.8 MC Mixed 15.9 49% 17 GB/s	SC Read 14.7 SC Write 18.4 SC Mixed 16.1 47% 16.4 GB/s	Latency 66.6 60% 66.6 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 50.6% Great: 64%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asrock Z97 Extreme3 - $80

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	73x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	60x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	34x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	35x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	17x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	13x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	16x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	10x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	8x

RAM
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	13x
Dominator DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 63%, 577 samples	9x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	6x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $728

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	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 $45	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) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16