Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 88%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (48%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO GAMER (all builds)
Memory	10.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Nov 14 '17 at 22:51
Run Duration	291 Seconds
Run User	DZA-User
Background CPU	48%

PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	88% Excellent	Memory 97.2 1-Core 118 2-Core 190 81% 135 Pts	4-Core 461 8-Core 432 60% 447 Pts	64-Core 452 28% 452 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 88% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Asus(1043 8534) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 10.18.14.4414 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 3% Great: 3%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M4 128GB-$116 34,516 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 71GB free Firmware: 040H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^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 14 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 42 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 7 (B5) Unknown 100 100 98784968715 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 82 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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	65.9% Good	Read 494 Write 191 Mixed 186 63% 290 MB/s	4K Read 27.9 4K Write 96 4K Mixed 6.96 102% 43.6 MB/s	DQ Read 152 DQ Write 129 DQ Mixed 7.69 42% 96.1 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 72%
Avexir V1 128G AV1128G 128GB 271 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 1GB free Firmware: AP023PC0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4987 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 131 (A3) Unknown 100 100 260 (A4) Unknown 100 100 28 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 30 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3077965067	42.3% Average	Read 443 Write 20.3 Mixed 6.82 33% 157 MB/s	4K Read 28.6 4K Write 54.1 4K Mixed 3.63 77% 28.8 MB/s	DQ Read 67.1 DQ Write 43.4 DQ Mixed 0.38 15% 37 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 42.3% Great: 49%
Zalman External HDD 1TB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 33GB free Firmware: MCCI Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	42.3% Average	Read 64.7 Write 82.5 Mixed 78 57% 75.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.33 87% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 42.3% Great: 59%
Hitachi HDS721050DLE630 500GB 10,673 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 15GB free Firmware: MS1OA650 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 136 90 (03) Spinup time 127 127 12896567479 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 8287 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 162 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 115 115 34 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 28988 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2422 (C0) Power-off retract count 92 92 10179 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 10179 (C2) HDA temperature 166 166 223339348004 (C4) Reallocation count 96 96 249 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	68% Good	Read 128 Write 109 Mixed 20.1 62% 85.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.14 68% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 68% Great: 82%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 750GB-$55 4,103 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 1GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 168760677 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 8103 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 21688665833 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 23728 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 4024 (B7) Unknown 1 1 103 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 94 94 6 (BC) Unknown 100 88 141737328731 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 44 4900782116 (C2) HDA temperature 36 56 60129542180 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 41 30 168760677 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 10 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 1803886293578 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1890983140 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3189755673	47% Average	Read 85.9 Write 77.9 Mixed 41.2 50% 68.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.05 4K Mixed 0.26 63% 0.55 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 47% Great: 67%
WD My Passport 0810 1TB 15 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 0GB free Firmware: 1049 Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	31.9% Below average	Read 79.4 Write 31.8 Mixed 57 42% 56 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 0.7 4K Mixed 0.13 45% 0.41 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 31.9% Great: 55%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR3-2400 CL10 4GB 4x4GB 157 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	88.7% Excellent	MC Read 32.6 MC Write 33.9 MC Mixed 29.7 92% 32.1 GB/s	SC Read 18.7 SC Write 22.2 SC Mixed 24.5 62% 21.8 GB/s	Latency 49.6 81% 49.6 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 88%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,406x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	547x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	295x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	458x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	221x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	181x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	188x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	107x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	74x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	126x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	109x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	104x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

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) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16