Asus Z97-K

Performance Results


Gaming 96% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 80% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 82.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	115% 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	93.7% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus Z97-K (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160331
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 14 '18 at 07:32
Run Duration	158 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	13%

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PC Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3-$209 19,313 User benchmarks, average bench 73% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 0.8 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	82.2% Excellent	Memory 96.8 1-Core 111 2-Core 214 82% 141 Pts	4-Core 366 8-Core 578 58% 472 Pts	64-Core 599 37% 599 Pts
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 82.2% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 8593) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	115% Outstanding	Lighting 154 Reflection 161 Parallax 150 126% 155 fps	MRender 120 Gravity 147 Splatting 117 104% 128 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 47GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13879 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1890 (B1) Unknown 79 79 246 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 70 58 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 128 (F1) Unknown 99 99 57499177673	93.7% Outstanding	Read 498 Write 347 Mixed 340 88% 395 MB/s	4K Read 44.4 4K Write 74.4 4K Mixed 24.5 138% 47.8 MB/s	DQ Read 333 DQ Write 218 DQ Mixed 68.6 107% 206 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 93.7% Great: 108%
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 23GB free Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 9471 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1129 (A5) Unknown 100 100 133207032692 (A6) Unknown 100 100 11 (A7) Unknown 100 100 36 (A8) Unknown 100 100 53 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 32 (AE) Unknown 100 100 53 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 48 206159413278 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 4484049143336 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 7576 (EA) Unknown 100 100 9180 (F1) Unknown 253 253 7220 (F2) Unknown 253 253 7961 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	86.6% Excellent	Read 460 Write 333 Mixed 328 83% 374 MB/s	4K Read 34.7 4K Write 78 4K Mixed 22 122% 44.9 MB/s	DQ Read 330 DQ Write 213 DQ Mixed 52 98% 198 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 86.6% Great: 101%
Maxtor STM3500320AS 500GB 5,105 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 378GB free Firmware: MX1A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 75 124914486 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5535 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 13001359983 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 16962 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 8 (0C) Power cycle count 97 37 3102 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 65535 (BC) Unknown 100 96 21475165427 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 54 471597084 (C2) HDA temperature 28 46 47244640284 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 25 23 124914486 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	53.9% Above average	Read 88.4 Write 99.1 Mixed 86.5 69% 91.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.55 121% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 53.9% Great: 59%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 301GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 222454032 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 995 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 24390713 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7760 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 827 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 73 65 471531547 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 33 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2894 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 51539607579 (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 -73358041406592 (F1) Unknown 100 253 19815959147 (F2) Unknown 100 253 452882092717	81.3% Excellent	Read 107 Write 175 Mixed 133 104% 138 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 5.2 4K Mixed 0.64 197% 2.19 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 81.3% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 2133 C11 4x4GB 4,968 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	75.9% Very good	MC Read 27.1 MC Write 28.8 MC Mixed 23.8 76% 26.6 GB/s	SC Read 18.9 SC Write 20.9 SC Mixed 24.3 61% 21.4 GB/s	Latency 51 78% 51 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 75.9% Great: 79%

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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 35%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97-K - $147

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	873x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	663x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	498x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	331x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	200x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	167x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	95x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	72x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	71x

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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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