Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 63% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 91.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	81.9% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	45.1% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO GAMER (all builds)
Memory	4.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150407
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Dec 24 '17 at 21:10
Run Duration	1136 Seconds
Run User	IRL-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.3% Outstanding	Memory 92.5 1-Core 130 2-Core 260 90% 161 Pts	4-Core 485 8-Core 693 74% 589 Pts	64-Core 677 42% 677 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 91.3% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3235) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing below potential (74^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.9% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 113 Parallax 103 84% 106 fps	MRender 94.7 Gravity 98.3 Splatting 92.5 78% 95.2 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung MZ7KM960HAHP-000MV 960GB 27 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 497GB free Firmware: GXM00M3Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5861 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 6898 (B1) Unknown 99 99 10 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 7713 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 60 43 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 4 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 6427 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6029753007 (F2) Unknown 99 99 132978813439 (F3) Unknown 100 100 81510348872 (F4) Unknown 100 100 0 (F5) Unknown 100 100 65535 (F6) Unknown 100 100 65535 (F7) Unknown 100 100 65535 (FB) Unknown 100 100 0	35.9% Below average	Read 508 Write 0.75 Mixed 1.52 35% 170 MB/s	4K Read 37.5 4K Write 2.51 4K Mixed 0.46 59% 13.5 MB/s
Poor: 90% ↑ This bench: 35.9% Great: 118%
INTENSO 128GB 3,345 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 17GB free (System drive) Firmware: S9FM02.6 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7148 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1181 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 34 (AD) Unknown 100 100 162660555 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 365 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 30 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 2 (F1) Unknown 100 100 6878370	45.1% Average	Read 446 Write 52.9 Mixed 154 47% 218 MB/s	4K Read 31.1 4K Write 44.4 4K Mixed 5.07 77% 26.9 MB/s	DQ Read 85.5 DQ Write 39.1 DQ Mixed 2.41 18% 42.3 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 45.1% Great: 91%
WD Green 2TB (2010)-$100 5,498 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 1.5TB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 3 (03) Spinup time 168 165 6566 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6155 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 21608 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2731 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 1 318 (BC) Unknown 97 1 2359637 (BE) vendor-specific 71 55 504496157 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 544 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5610 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	58.4% Above average	Read 97.6 Write 106 Mixed 108 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 2.06 4K Mixed 0.23 95% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 58.4% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 16JTF51264AZ-1G4D1 2x4GB 1,539 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	53.2% Above average	MC Read 18.6 MC Write 18.9 MC Mixed 16 51% 17.8 GB/s	SC Read 15 SC Write 19.3 SC Mixed 17.9 50% 17.4 GB/s	Latency 63 64% 63 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 53.2% Great: 53%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

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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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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