Asus Z97M-PLUS/BR

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 21% Surfboard	Desktop 68% Battle cruiser	Workstation 19% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 68.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	27.9% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

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Motherboard	Asus Z97M-PLUS/BR (all builds)
Memory	11.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141104
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 26 '17 at 19:32
Run Duration	156 Seconds
Run User	COL-User
Background CPU	100%

PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	68.7% Good	Memory 78 1-Core 73.8 2-Core 153 60% 102 Pts	4-Core 319 8-Core 604 55% 462 Pts	64-Core 591 37% 591 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 68.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 760-$209 161,132 User benchmarks, average bench 26% Gigabyte(1458 3643) 2GB CLim: 1254 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	27.9% Poor	Lighting 32.8 Reflection 29.7 Parallax 37.5 27% 33.3 fps	MRender 40.6 Gravity 38.8 Splatting 33.3 30% 37.6 fps
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 27.9% Great: 28%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$38 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free (System drive) Firmware: CC49 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 99 21920192 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1013 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 107557609 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2794 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1002 (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 65 59 588709923 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 169 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3066 (C2) HDA temperature 35 41 51539607587 (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 -48485885801718 (F1) Unknown 100 253 19838569993 (F2) Unknown 100 253 28416413394	99.8% Outstanding	Read 171 Write 177 Mixed 155 126% 168 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.22 4K Mixed 0.22 71% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 99.8% Great: 114%
LaCie Hard Drive 500GB 25 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 51GB free, PID 1016 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	21.4% Poor	Read 41.9 Write 42.5 Mixed 26.5 46% 37 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.91 4K Mixed 0.54 86% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 21.4% Great: 21%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905403-559.A00LF 16GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	54% Above average	MC Read 21.1 MC Write 21.2 MC Mixed 16.6 56% 19.6 GB/s	SC Read 9.9 SC Write 16.3 SC Mixed 12.8 37% 13 GB/s	Latency 84.3 47% 84.3 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 54% Great: 59%

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Gaming 38%

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Desktop 77%

Battleship

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
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	12x
SSDNow V300 240GBKingston $35Bench 64%, 176,713 samples	11x

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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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $363

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	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 $39	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