Asus Z97-WS

Performance Results


Gaming 15% Tree trunk	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 70%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	14.5% 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	111% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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.

High background CPU (27%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-WS (all builds)
Memory	27.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1440 x 900 - 32 Bit colors, , 1440 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150618
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 31 '16 at 17:09
Run Duration	162 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	27%

PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E3-1246 v3-$200 2,511 User benchmarks, average bench 73% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (29^th percentile)	70% Very good	Memory 83.2 1-Core 99 2-Core 171 70% 118 Pts	4-Core 307 8-Core 511 50% 409 Pts	64-Core 551 34% 551 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 82%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD Graphics P4600 2,141 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Asus(1043 8534) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4444 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	3.66% Terrible	Lighting 3.67 Reflection 6.12 Parallax 4.62 3% 4.8 fps	MRender 8.57 Gravity 2.27 Splatting 7.17 5% 6 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.66% Great: 4%
Nvidia Tesla C2075 25 User benchmarks, average bench 15% Nvidia(10DE 0910) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.5499 Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	14.5% Very poor	Lighting 16.9 Reflection 24.3 Parallax 19.1 14% 20.1 fps	MRender 22.8 Gravity 13.4 Splatting 21.7 16% 19.3 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 14.5% Great: 16%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 98GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2802 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 201 (B1) Unknown 99 99 6 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 61 47 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 43 (EB) Unknown 99 99 28 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3881337811	111% Outstanding	Read 505 Write 404 Mixed 413 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 42.4 4K Write 93.7 4K Mixed 46.2 173% 60.8 MB/s	DQ Read 329 DQ Write 253 DQ Mixed 98.5 126% 227 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 124%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$40 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 667GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 174 2200 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 196 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 515 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 29 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 195 (C2) HDA temperature 115 111 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	91% Outstanding	Read 172 Write 145 Mixed 140 114% 152 MB/s	4K Read 1.12 4K Write 2.8 4K Mixed 0.35 137% 1.42 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 108%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$40 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 29GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 175 2216 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 459 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2801 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 201 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 65 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 393 (C2) HDA temperature 116 105 27 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	80.3% Excellent	Read 150 Write 130 Mixed 123 101% 134 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.26 100% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown BLT8G3D1869DT1TX0. 0821 16G-D3-1600-MR 1315 BLT8G3D1869DT1TX0. 0821 16G-D3-1600-MR 32GB 1867, 1600, 1867, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	46.3% Average	MC Read 16.6 MC Write 17.9 MC Mixed 14.6 47% 16.4 GB/s	SC Read 9.9 SC Write 12.2 SC Mixed 12.1 33% 11.4 GB/s	Latency 74.9 53% 74.9 ns

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Gaming 97%

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Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 81%

Aircraft carrier

Motherboard: Asus Z97-WS - $318

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	76x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	22x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	13x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	13x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	13x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	11x

SSD
MX500 1TBCrucial $81Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	6x
980 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 2TBSamsung $170Bench 416%, 138,083 samples	5x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	5x

RAM
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	6x
RipjawsX DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 54%, 8,026 samples	5x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	4x

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Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $1,232

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16