Asus Z97-K

Performance Results


Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 90.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	90.3% 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	126% 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

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-K (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kolorów
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160331
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Apr 19 '17 at 22:30
Run Duration	180 Seconds
Run User	POL-User
Background CPU	6%

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PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-5675C-$289 945 User benchmarks, average bench 81% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.1 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	90.9% Outstanding	Memory 95.2 1-Core 134 2-Core 269 92% 166 Pts	4-Core 507 8-Core 468 66% 487 Pts	64-Core 500 31% 500 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 90.9% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3302) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.3% Outstanding	Lighting 115 Reflection 116 Parallax 99.7 94% 110 fps	MRender 99.6 Gravity 103 Splatting 104 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.3% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Vertex 4 128GB-$215 19,372 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 95GB free Firmware: 1.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 5 0 5 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 15118 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2743 (E8) Unknown 100 100 26718121936 (E9) Unknown 95 0 95	101% Outstanding	Read 403 Write 376 Mixed 383 87% 387 MB/s	4K Read 30 4K Write 126 4K Mixed 35.7 158% 64.1 MB/s	DQ Read 342 DQ Write 319 DQ Mixed 112 144% 258 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 104%
Samsung MZVPV256HDGL-000H1 256GB 3,288 User benchmarks, average bench 192% 93GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW7 Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	126% Outstanding	Read 771 Write 551 Mixed 669 148% 664 MB/s	4K Read 49.8 4K Write 129 4K Mixed 32.5 185% 70.3 MB/s	DQ Read 52.2 DQ Write 289 DQ Mixed 107 101% 149 MB/s
Poor: 124% ↑ This bench: 126% Great: 237%
Samsung HD502HJ 500GB-$50 72,924 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 596GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 83 82 5429 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9157 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 23051 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4226 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 56 188979413018 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 21 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 9324	56.4% Above average	Read 104 Write 92.3 Mixed 73.7 67% 90 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 2.59 4K Mixed 0.32 98% 1.09 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 56.4% Great: 77%
Toshiba External USB HDD 320GB 173 User benchmarks, average bench 16% 268GB free, PID a001 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	19.1% Very poor	Read 41.4 Write 42.9 Mixed 30.7 49% 38.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.18 4K Mixed 0.28 51% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 19.1% Great: 19%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905403-199.A00LF KHX1600C9D3/4GX 9905403-199.A00LF KHX1600C9D3/4GX 16GB 129 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	84.2% Excellent	MC Read 39.2 MC Write 22.8 MC Mixed 32.2 90% 31.4 GB/s	SC Read 11.8 SC Write 20.3 SC Mixed 19.3 49% 17.1 GB/s	Latency 56.6 71% 56.6 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 84.2% Great: 64%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97-K - $147

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	877x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	663x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	498x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	332x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	200x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	167x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	95x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	72x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	71x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	148x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	133x
CT102464BA160B.C16 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 11,058 samples	44x

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Total price: $795

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