Asrock Z97 Anniversary

Performance Results


Gaming 53% Yacht	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 44% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 89%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	54.2% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	86.9% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z97 Anniversary (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	Χρώματα 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180308
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 14 '18 at 09:22
Run Duration	182 Seconds
Run User	GRC-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	89% Excellent	Memory 96.9 1-Core 117 2-Core 234 85% 149 Pts	4-Core 444 8-Core 593 66% 519 Pts	64-Core 602 37% 602 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% PNY(196E 1131) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1481 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	54.2% Above average	Lighting 67.7 Reflection 71.5 Parallax 63.6 55% 67.6 fps	MRender 74.9 Gravity 63.9 Splatting 56.7 52% 65.2 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 54.2% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Team L5 3D 240GB 407 User benchmarks, average bench 98% 161GB free (System drive) Firmware: Q0526A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^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 100 100 204 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 225 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 89 (A3) Unknown 100 100 7 (A4) Unknown 100 100 4078 (A5) Unknown 100 100 31 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 2 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 12 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 7 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 35565 (F2) Unknown 100 100 77931 (F5) Unknown 100 100 16312	86.9% Excellent	Read 461 Write 413 Mixed 439 98% 438 MB/s	4K Read 35.1 4K Write 78.4 4K Mixed 28.1 131% 47.2 MB/s	DQ Read 35.9 DQ Write 147 DQ Mixed 24.9 38% 69.3 MB/s
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 545GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 63 208643108 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2172 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 68 60 6515244 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3750 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2173 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 71 53 487718941 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2178 (C2) HDA temperature 29 16 68719476765 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 8 1 208643108 (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 -53510997537121 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6428519123 (F2) Unknown 100 253 7103701012	95.7% Outstanding	Read 169 Write 165 Mixed 140 118% 158 MB/s	4K Read 1.02 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.31 109% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 95.7% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2016)-$114 34,353 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 453GB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 73 64 22083474 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2530 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 93454361 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 -138139033136994 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2532 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 73 53 470941723 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 279 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 10117 (C2) HDA temperature 27 47 68719476763 (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 78073915510481 (F1) Unknown 100 253 23603518066 (F2) Unknown 100 253 26500982658	64.9% Good	Read 120 Write 106 Mixed 105 83% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.2 73% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 64.9% Great: 105%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 353GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 119248016 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5586 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 134795103 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 9732 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6676 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 19 (BD) vendor-specific 94 94 6 (BE) vendor-specific 70 48 504627230 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1702 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 19685 (C2) HDA temperature 30 52 51539607582 (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 -3904125254636 (F1) Unknown 100 253 22288545648 (F2) Unknown 100 253 91076854354	85.3% Excellent	Read 142 Write 154 Mixed 131 107% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 5.6 4K Mixed 0.76 224% 2.41 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 112%
WD Blue 1TB (2015)-$40 52,322 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 199GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 138 137 4091 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 55 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 147 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 55 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 7 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 475 (C2) HDA temperature 115 110 28 (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 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	84.9% Excellent	Read 146 Write 150 Mixed 142 110% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.96 4K Write 2.68 4K Mixed 0.28 121% 1.31 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 87%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 2133 C10 2x8GB 3,028 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	75.5% Very good	MC Read 29 MC Write 27.2 MC Mixed 22 74% 26.1 GB/s	SC Read 19.9 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 26.5 65% 22.8 GB/s	Latency 50.6 79% 50.6 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 75.5% Great: 79%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z97 Anniversary - $120

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	326x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	243x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	112x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	140x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	96x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	77x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	69x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	56x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	40x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	36x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	36x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	29x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $768

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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