Asus Z97-PRO (Wi-Fi ac)

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 70% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (39th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 61 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 80.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	102% 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	66.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO (Wi-Fi ac) (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140617
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 06 '18 at 17:59
Run Duration	138 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	9%

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PC Performing below expectations (39^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	80.3% Excellent	Memory 87 1-Core 118 2-Core 238 83% 148 Pts	4-Core 397 8-Core 643 64% 520 Pts	64-Core 648 40% 648 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 8591) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing below potential (51^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	102% Outstanding	Lighting 131 Reflection 146 Parallax 125 107% 134 fps	MRender 113 Gravity 128 Splatting 105 94% 116 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk X400 512GB-$99 7,913 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 424GB free (System drive) Firmware: X4120000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2367 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 628 (A5) Unknown 100 100 253527721660 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 34 (A8) Unknown 100 100 13 (A9) Unknown 100 100 480 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 6 (AE) Unknown 100 100 12 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 61 74 317829087271 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 4793189074012 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3160 (EA) Unknown 100 100 16601 (F1) Unknown 253 253 15888 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2750 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	66.3% Good	Read 479 Write 346 Mixed 321 85% 382 MB/s	4K Read 27.3 4K Write 41.6 4K Mixed 9.03 75% 26 MB/s	DQ Read 27 DQ Write 187 DQ Mixed 29.7 46% 81.1 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 66.3% Great: 104%
Crucial MX200 250GB-$134 26,364 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 232GB free Firmware: MU03 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st 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 10 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 687 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3 (AE) Unknown 100 100 11 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2587 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 71 59 176094838813 (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 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 631508514 (F7) Unknown 100 100 19793757 (F8) Unknown 100 100 12087017	89.6% Excellent	Read 517 Write 393 Mixed 410 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 28.8 4K Write 84.6 4K Mixed 16.4 109% 43.3 MB/s	DQ Read 331 DQ Write 272 DQ Mixed 60 111% 221 MB/s
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 89.6% Great: 113%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$90 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 489GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 181089232 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 865 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 39860899 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2294 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 689 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 196612 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 65 471531548 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 283 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 11354 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 77309411356 (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 -1417339204736 (F1) Unknown 100 253 16055789616 (F2) Unknown 100 253 176743177656	82.9% Excellent	Read 122 Write 166 Mixed 124 103% 137 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 5.3 4K Mixed 0.49 170% 2.07 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 82.9% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 99[1/6/3]996(F) 1314 99[1/6/3]996(F) 1314 99[2/7/4]164(S/Y) 1314 99[2/7/4]164(S/Y) 16GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	49.8% Average	MC Read 17.1 MC Write 18.2 MC Mixed 15 48% 16.8 GB/s	SC Read 13.6 SC Write 18.7 SC Mixed 16.4 46% 16.2 GB/s	Latency 70.5 57% 70.5 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 49.8% Great: 52%

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Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-PRO (Wi-Fi ac)

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	587x
Core i5-4690KIntel $50Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	132x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	88x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	141x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	55x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	53x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $137Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	41x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	36x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $72Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	29x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	49x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	32x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	28x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $685

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $169	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	WD Black SN850X M.2 2TB $150
Intel Core i5-12400F $110	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	WD Black SN850X M.2 1TB $89
Intel Core i5-13600K $249	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $369