Asus Z97-E

Performance Results


Gaming 23% Surfboard	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 19% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 93.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	20.6% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	90% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-E (all builds)
Memory	21.7 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141112
Uptime	1.7 Days
Run Date	Dec 03 '17 at 17:31
Run Duration	171 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing as expected (51^st 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, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.3% Outstanding	Memory 94.9 1-Core 136 2-Core 269 93% 166 Pts	4-Core 530 8-Core 529 71% 529 Pts	64-Core 532 33% 532 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 93.3% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 290-$399 68,699 User benchmarks, average bench 46% PowerColor(148C 2343) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1200 MHz, MLim: 1410 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.11.2 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	20.6% Poor	Lighting 3.73 Reflection 62.4 Parallax 84.1 3% 50.1 fps	MRender 61.7 Gravity 55.7 Splatting 78.5 55% 65.3 fps
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 20.6% Great: 50%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS1211 480GB SSD 754D117-514 344 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 369GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS121101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd 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 100 100 888 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 714 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 47 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 33 100 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 364 (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 33 (E9) Unknown 0 0 0 (EA) Unknown 0 0 22 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6293 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4942	90% Outstanding	Read 502 Write 377 Mixed 426 97% 435 MB/s	4K Read 29.6 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 24.1 135% 55.4 MB/s	DQ Read 29.9 DQ Write 291 DQ Mixed 23.6 59% 115 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 90% Great: 102%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 139GB free Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 11044059 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 108954730365002 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 8 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 0 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 28 52 55837982748 (C2) HDA temperature 28 52 55837982748 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 11044059 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 11044059 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 11044059 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 4294967296 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4294963431 (EA) Unknown 0 0 47 (F1) Unknown 0 0 47 (F2) Unknown 0 0 43 (F4) Unknown 100 100 1835026	68% Good	Read 482 Write 207 Mixed 252 69% 314 MB/s	4K Read 23.3 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 13 114% 51.2 MB/s	DQ Read 32.6 DQ Write 130 DQ Mixed 12.1 30% 58.3 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 68% Great: 85%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 79GB free Firmware: 600ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 10643513 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 -126177549210023 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1217 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 61 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 29 49 47247851549 (C2) HDA temperature 29 49 47247851549 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 10643513 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 10643513 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 10643513 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 5306 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2401 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2401 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2548 (F4) Unknown 99 99 5242915	45.2% Average	Read 500 Write 105 Mixed 177 56% 261 MB/s	4K Read 23.4 4K Write 17.6 4K Mixed 9.75 57% 16.9 MB/s	DQ Read 54.3 DQ Write 39.5 DQ Mixed 10.5 18% 34.8 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 45.2% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 208GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 52463240 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5601 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 25087092 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11716 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1208 (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 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 62 538181660 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 8 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 65 65 71157 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 38654705692 (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 -45711336928740 (F1) Unknown 100 253 16075116058 (F2) Unknown 100 253 176220126059	76.4% Very good	Read 133 Write 133 Mixed 132 100% 133 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.2 70% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Team Dark-1600 3x8GB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 3 of 4 slots used 24GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	49.7% Average	MC Read 16.6 MC Write 17.4 MC Mixed 15.2 47% 16.4 GB/s	SC Read 14 SC Write 17.5 SC Mixed 15.9 45% 15.8 GB/s	Latency 57.5 70% 57.5 ns
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 49.7% Great: 63%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

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Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-E

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	275x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	181x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	72x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	151x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	48x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	40x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	47x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	30x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	30x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	30x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	24x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	21x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

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