Asus Z97-E/USB 3.1

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 86.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	13% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	123% 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

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-E/USB 3.1 (all builds)
Memory	14.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150520
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 17 '18 at 08:40
Run Duration	231 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770-$75 176,321 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.3% Excellent	Memory 93.6 1-Core 117 2-Core 234 84% 148 Pts	4-Core 438 8-Core 552 64% 495 Pts	64-Core 591 37% 591 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 86.3% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 460-$203 31,648 User benchmarks, average bench 12% EVGA(3842 1360) 768MB CLim: 720 MHz, MLim: 900 MHz, Ram: 768MB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	13% Very poor	Lighting 15.4 Reflection 18 Parallax 13.7 13% 15.7 fps	MRender 20.4 Gravity 15.6 Splatting 15.4 14% 17.1 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 13% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 192GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	123% Outstanding	Read 721 Write 542 Mixed 563 135% 609 MB/s	4K Read 51.3 4K Write 92 4K Mixed 26.4 160% 56.6 MB/s	DQ Read 348 DQ Write 296 DQ Mixed 149 159% 264 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 123% Great: 236%
Kingston DataTraveler 101 G2 USB 2.0 8GB-$6 2,874 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 3GB free, PID 1642 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	7.15% Terrible	Read 24.1 Write 7.44 Mixed 10.7 15% 14.1 MB/s	4K Read 7.3 4K Write 0.1 4K Mixed 0.02 31% 2.47 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 7.15% Great: 7%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905403-684.A00LF 2x8GB 25 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	60% Above average	MC Read 22.3 MC Write 21.4 MC Mixed 17.1 58% 20.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 21.5 SC Mixed 19.9 56% 19.7 GB/s	Latency 60.7 66% 60.7 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 60% Great: 60%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 43%

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Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-E/USB 3.1

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	252x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	104x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	67x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	65x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	57x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	38x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	30x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	30x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	24x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	63x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	14x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	13x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $657

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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