Asrock Z97 Extreme4

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	80.4% 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	205% 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

6 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z97 Extreme4 (all builds)
Memory	9.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151012
Uptime	2.2 Days
Run Date	Mar 11 '18 at 20:48
Run Duration	156 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

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PC Performing above expectations (66^th 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-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	88.8% Excellent	Memory 94.4 1-Core 129 2-Core 253 89% 159 Pts	4-Core 484 8-Core 467 64% 475 Pts	64-Core 486 30% 486 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 88.8% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (58^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.4% Excellent	Lighting 99.2 Reflection 114 Parallax 92.6 81% 102 fps	MRender 94.5 Gravity 93.6 Splatting 101 80% 96.4 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 98GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile)	205% Outstanding	Read 2,104 Write 730 Mixed 1,075 285% 1,303 MB/s	4K Read 48.1 4K Write 174 4K Mixed 33 207% 84.9 MB/s	DQ Read 414 DQ Write 306 DQ Mixed 161 174% 294 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 205% Great: 283%
WD Red 4TB (2013)-$110 55,507 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 6TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 210 184 6475 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1064 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 11800 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 61 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 43 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 10065 (C2) HDA temperature 98 92 54 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	83.9% Excellent	Read 155 Write 137 Mixed 124 104% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 2.32 4K Mixed 0.25 99% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 83.9% Great: 100%
WD Red 4TB (2013)-$110 55,507 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 6TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 208 182 6575 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 852 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 88 8213 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 62 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 46 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9477 (C2) HDA temperature 108 102 44 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	74.3% Very good	Read 135 Write 124 Mixed 128 97% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 2.07 4K Mixed 0.25 87% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 74.3% Great: 100%
Seagate SkyHawk 8TB (2016)-$170 125 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 7GB free Firmware: AV01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 81 76 117653127 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 6 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 86 60 379162024 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 23394686863207 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 6 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 43 37 7555840802873 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 5 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 512 (C2) HDA temperature 57 63 103079215161 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 1 1 117653127 (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 104122892158613 (F1) Unknown 100 253 33422975 (F2) Unknown 100 253 84230152
Poor: 45% Great: 89%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 34,385 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	61.6% Good	MC Read 20.9 MC Write 22.2 MC Mixed 19.6 60% 20.9 GB/s	SC Read 16.9 SC Write 22.6 SC Mixed 19.5 56% 19.7 GB/s	Latency 58.7 68% 58.7 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 61.6% Great: 63%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

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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	288x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	99x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	155x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	78x
GTX 1080Nvidia $245Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	66x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	55x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 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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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $777

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	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 $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16