Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

Performance Results


Gaming 125% UFO	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 99% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	134% 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	181% 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.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO GAMER (all builds)
Memory	14.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 14 '18 at 19:40
Run Duration	159 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (72^nd 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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93% Outstanding	Memory 97.4 1-Core 133 2-Core 259 92% 163 Pts	4-Core 511 8-Core 516 69% 513 Pts	64-Core 522 32% 522 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 93% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$230 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EA) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2775 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	134% Outstanding	Lighting 188 Reflection 202 Parallax 201 154% 197 fps	MRender 129 Gravity 184 Splatting 132 120% 148 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 134% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 275GB-$100 67,541 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 253GB free Firmware: M0CR060 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 0 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 373 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 73 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 4 (AE) Unknown 100 100 34 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 71 56 188978954269 (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 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 1026279508 (F7) Unknown 100 100 32138951 (F8) Unknown 100 100 11775566 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1255 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	74.6% Very good	Read 486 Write 335 Mixed 337 86% 386 MB/s	4K Read 26.8 4K Write 71.4 4K Mixed 23.1 108% 40.4 MB/s	DQ Read 27.5 DQ Write 77.7 DQ Mixed 13.7 22% 39.6 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 95%
Corsair Force MP500 NVMe PCIe M.2 240GB-$43 14,860 User benchmarks, average bench 151% 85GB free (System drive) Firmware: E7FM02.1 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	181% Outstanding	Read 1,441 Write 1,217 Mixed 1,263 291% 1,307 MB/s	4K Read 32.5 4K Write 97.7 4K Mixed 22.9 130% 51 MB/s	DQ Read 186 DQ Write 289 DQ Mixed 23.2 78% 166 MB/s
Poor: 106% ↑ This bench: 181% Great: 210%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$37 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 16798888 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4481 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 59 25880643972 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 25118 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3094 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 73 49 454623259 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 75 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5020 (C2) HDA temperature 27 51 55834574875 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -60550448915172 (F1) Unknown 100 253 21910027690 (F2) Unknown 100 253 28700215539	100% Outstanding	Read 185 Write 165 Mixed 160 128% 170 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.34 4K Mixed 0.33 95% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 114%
WD WD6402AAEX-00Z3A0 640GB 6,247 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 40GB free Firmware: 01.01V01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 5 (03) Spinup time 178 169 4075 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5594 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 12788 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3432 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 199 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5394 (C2) HDA temperature 118 98 29 (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	49% Average	Read 89.8 Write 80.5 Mixed 83.9 64% 84.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 2.01 4K Mixed 0.5 132% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 49% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMY8GX3M2A2400C11 0215 CMY8GX3M2A1600C9 0215 CMY8GX3M2A2400C11 0215 CMY8GX3M2A1600C9 16GB 29 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 2400, 2400, 2400, 2400 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89.2% Excellent	MC Read 32.1 MC Write 34.1 MC Mixed 28.7 90% 31.6 GB/s	SC Read 22.1 SC Write 24.8 SC Mixed 27.5 71% 24.8 GB/s	Latency 48.9 82% 48.9 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 89.2% Great: 87%

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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	1,417x
Core i5-4690KIntel $50Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	551x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	296x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	462x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	222x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	182x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	191x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	107x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	74x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	128x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	109x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	104x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $174	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 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $44

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $28	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