Asus Z97M-PLUS/BR

Performance Results


Gaming 13% Tree trunk	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 84.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	11.9% 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	109% 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	18GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 18GB 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (18%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97M-PLUS/BR (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 18 GB @ 1.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151204
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 03 '16 at 00:52
Run Duration	212 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	18%

PC Performing above expectations (60^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-$50 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	84.3% Excellent	Memory 89.8 1-Core 118 2-Core 228 83% 145 Pts	4-Core 443 8-Core 515 62% 479 Pts	64-Core 517 32% 517 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 84.3% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 760-$209 161,132 User benchmarks, average bench 26% Gigabyte(1458 3643) 2GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6472 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	11.9% Very poor	Lighting 14 Reflection 13.1 Parallax 16.3 11% 14.5 fps	MRender 20.7 Gravity 12.9 Splatting 14.6 13% 16.1 fps
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 11.9% Great: 28%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 3GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2881 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 779 (B1) Unknown 95 95 97 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 54 46 46 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 117 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10390323264	109% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 408 Mixed 413 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 42.2 4K Write 84.9 4K Mixed 41.6 162% 56.2 MB/s	DQ Read 372 DQ Write 265 DQ Mixed 99.2 134% 246 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 115%
WD Blue 250GB (2007)-$25 41,230 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 21GB free Firmware: 01.03A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1243 (03) Spinup time 153 151 3316 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4369 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 12635 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3994 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 890 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4369 (C2) HDA temperature 94 85 49 (C4) Reallocation count 199 199 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 27 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	47.4% Average	Read 89.2 Write 75.8 Mixed 84.6 63% 83.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 1.88 4K Mixed 0.35 86% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 47.4% Great: 55%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$30 107,978 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 3GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 31150331 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8298 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 189197897 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13482 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4564 (B7) Unknown 98 98 2 (B8) Unknown 99 99 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 71 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 58 50 706674730 (C2) HDA temperature 42 50 60129542186 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 24 19 31150331 (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 84808424254129 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3643253500 (F2) Unknown 100 253 90282030	43.4% Average	Read 79.9 Write 71.3 Mixed 71 56% 74.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.46 99% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 43.4% Great: 70%
Toshiba MK3265GSX 160GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 0GB free Firmware: ZM100-47 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 253 100 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 5632 (04) Start/Stop count 83 83 17590 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 24638 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 7904 (BB) vendor-specific 71 71 131102 (BE) vendor-specific 88 61 50 (C2) HDA temperature 88 61 50 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 9143 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 1	24.8% Poor	Read 30.9 Write 55.2 Mixed 47.7 34% 44.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.28 4K Mixed 0.4 92% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 24.8% Great: 31%
Samsung M3 Portable 1TB 17,632 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 2GB free, PID 61b6 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	34% Below average	Read 74.6 Write 79.3 Mixed 71.9 98% 75.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.88 4K Mixed 0.37 78% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 34% Great: 42%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-056.A00LF 99U5471-001.A00LF 18GB 13 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 1355, 1355, 1355, 1355 MHz 8192, 4096, 2048, 4096 MB Performing below potential (8^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	34.5% Below average	MC Read 11.3 MC Write 11.8 MC Mixed 10.2 32% 11.1 GB/s	SC Read 10.2 SC Write 11.3 SC Mixed 10.5 30% 10.7 GB/s	Latency 67.5 59% 67.5 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 34.5% Great: 54%

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Gaming 38%

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Desktop 77%

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Workstation 32%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97M-PLUS/BR

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	75x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	63x
Core i5-4690Intel $51Bench 67%, 73,695 samples	23x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	46x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	22x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	21x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	21x
SSDNow V300 240GBKingston $35Bench 64%, 176,713 samples	12x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	12x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	28x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	15x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	10x

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Total price: $363

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Intel Core i5-13600K $245	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $359