Asrock Z97 Extreme4

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 63% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 87.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	80.9% 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	90.1% 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	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asrock Z97 Extreme4 (all builds)
Memory	15.6 GB free of 24 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kolorów
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151012
Uptime	1.5 Days
Run Date	Feb 14 '18 at 21:58
Run Duration	135 Seconds
Run User	POL-User
Background CPU	21%

PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	87.7% Excellent	Memory 97.2 1-Core 132 2-Core 260 92% 163 Pts	4-Core 422 8-Core 668 67% 545 Pts	64-Core 664 41% 664 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 87.7% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing below potential (68^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.9% Excellent	Lighting 102 Reflection 105 Parallax 101 84% 103 fps	MRender 92 Gravity 95.8 Splatting 90.2 76% 92.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.9% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandisk X400 M.2 2280 256GB 11,716 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 174GB free Firmware: X4152012 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 655 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 206 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 10395 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 58 55 236224184362 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 188978561068 (EE) Unknown 100 100 16702491 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1325900272 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2634430387	89.8% Excellent	Read 499 Write 448 Mixed 354 96% 433 MB/s	4K Read 25.3 4K Write 50.8 4K Mixed 25.9 98% 34 MB/s	DQ Read 307 DQ Write 253 DQ Mixed 10.8 82% 190 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 89.8% Great: 90%
Crucial MX100 512GB-$200 31,545 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 97GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th 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 7052 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2429 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 97 97 90 (AE) Unknown 100 100 211 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4403 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 67 51 210454249505 (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 97 97 3 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 31486468508 (F7) Unknown 100 100 1029332418 (F8) Unknown 100 100 258843641	90.1% Outstanding	Read 492 Write 464 Mixed 470 106% 475 MB/s	4K Read 22.8 4K Write 76.5 4K Mixed 28.7 112% 42.7 MB/s	DQ Read 26 DQ Write 328 DQ Mixed 43.1 73% 132 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 90.1% Great: 107%
Asrock RAM Disk 4GB 4GB free Firmware: 1.00 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-2400C10-8GTX 0420 F3-2400C10-4GTX 0420 F3-2400C10-8GTX 0420 F3-2400C10-4GTX 24GB 101 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2400, 2400, 2400, 2400 MHz 8192, 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Performing below potential (36^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	77.4% Very good	MC Read 29 MC Write 29.5 MC Mixed 21.7 76% 26.7 GB/s	SC Read 20.2 SC Write 24.2 SC Mixed 25.4 66% 23.3 GB/s	Latency 49.6 81% 49.6 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 77.4% Great: 94%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z97 Extreme4 - $129

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	474x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	286x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	98x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	154x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	78x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	66x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	55x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	38x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	36x

RAM
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	43x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	39x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	24x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	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