Asus Z97-K

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 63% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	106% 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	151% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (37%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

12 months ago, 12 months ago, 12 months ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-K (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kolorów
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160331
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 12 '23 at 15:48
Run Duration	113 Seconds
Run User	POL-User
Background CPU	37%

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PC Performing as expected (53^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-$50 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	74.5% Very good	Memory 86.4 1-Core 112 2-Core 226 80% 141 Pts	4-Core 358 8-Core 387 49% 372 Pts	64-Core 408 25% 408 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 74.5% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6286) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 516.94 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	Lighting 136 Reflection 140 Parallax 130 111% 135 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 141 Splatting 120 102% 125 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 110%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Black SN770 NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB 12,579 User benchmarks, average bench 380% 222GB free (System drive) Firmware: 731030WD Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 301 608 664 681 684 688 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	151% Outstanding	Read 614 Write 548 Mixed 580 SusWrite 604 132% 587 MB/s	4K Read 46.3 4K Write 81.2 4K Mixed 54.4 183% 60.6 MB/s	DQ Read 775 DQ Write 712 DQ Mixed 954 658% 814 MB/s
Poor: 195% ↑ This bench: 151% Great: 507%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C9D3/4GX KHX1866C9D3/4GX KHX1866C9D3/4GX KHX1600C9D3/4GX 16GB 11 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	60% Above average	MC Read 20.5 MC Write 23.1 MC Mixed 19.1 60% 20.9 GB/s	SC Read 15.3 SC Write 21.4 SC Mixed 17.8 52% 18.2 GB/s	Latency 70.9 56% 70.9 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 60% Great: 71%

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

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Typical Z97-K Builds (Compare 3,088 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97-K - $147

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	881x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	667x
Core i5-4690KIntel $50Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	499x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	335x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	200x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	169x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	95x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	72x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $65Bench 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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Total price: $795

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $170	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $29	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16