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 (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	81.3% 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	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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO GAMER (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141013
Uptime	2.4 Days
Run Date	Dec 04 '17 at 03:28
Run Duration	160 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (61^st 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 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	85.7% Excellent	Memory 93.8 1-Core 120 2-Core 238 85% 151 Pts	4-Core 419 8-Core 637 66% 528 Pts	64-Core 645 40% 645 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 85.7% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3702) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.31 Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Lighting 135 Reflection 150 Parallax 140 110% 142 fps	Gravity 133 Splatting 109 105% 121 fps
Poor: 93% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 379GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1021 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 415 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 60 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 4 (F1) Unknown 99 99 207141101	110% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 414 Mixed 420 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 47.7 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 48.4 190% 67.3 MB/s	DQ Read 47.7 DQ Write 244 DQ Mixed 117 98% 136 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 134%
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 143GB free (System drive) Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 5727 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1930 (A5) Unknown 100 100 408104469549 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 21 (A8) Unknown 100 100 17 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 9 (AE) Unknown 100 100 61 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 74 40 171799609370 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 5536234865929 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1975 (EA) Unknown 100 100 11100 (F1) Unknown 253 253 8547 (F2) Unknown 253 253 8681 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	81.3% Excellent	Read 471 Write 315 Mixed 245 76% 344 MB/s	4K Read 31.2 4K Write 79.1 4K Mixed 17.3 111% 42.5 MB/s	DQ Read 307 DQ Write 187 DQ Mixed 12.5 72% 169 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 81.3% Great: 101%
Adata Premier SP550 480GB-$129 8,505 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 88GB free Firmware: O0730A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd 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 100 100 281 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1246 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 184 (A3) Unknown 100 100 36 (94) Unknown 100 100 35555 (95) Unknown 100 100 383 (96) Unknown 100 100 206 (97) Unknown 100 100 345 (A4) Unknown 100 100 11969 (A5) Unknown 100 100 18 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 6 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 0 0 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 4 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 28 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 42 (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	77.1% Very good	Read 488 Write 263 Mixed 267 75% 339 MB/s	4K Read 30.1 4K Write 64 4K Mixed 21.8 107% 38.6 MB/s	DQ Read 265 DQ Write 166 DQ Mixed 46.2 80% 159 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 95%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 537GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 62604880 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 5049 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 35778788 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5735 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1934 (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 75 60 420675609 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 84 84 33478 (C2) HDA temperature 25 40 42949672985 (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 -21938692945477 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2364612988 (F2) Unknown 100 253 623323956752	93.1% Outstanding	Read 174 Write 151 Mixed 155 120% 160 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.88 4K Mixed 0.22 80% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 93.1% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Team Team-Elite-1600 2x8GB 3,520 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1648 MHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	60.4% Good	MC Read 21.9 MC Write 21.7 MC Mixed 17.6 58% 20.4 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 22 SC Mixed 20.3 57% 19.8 GB/s	Latency 60.3 66% 60.3 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 60.4% Great: 61%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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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	1,398x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	542x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	293x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	454x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	220x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	181x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	187x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	107x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 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	108x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	103x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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