Asus GRYPHON Z97

Performance Results


Gaming 60% Gunboat	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 50% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	62.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	94.3% 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	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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Motherboard	Asus GRYPHON Z97 (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140930
Uptime	11.7 Days
Run Date	Jul 07 '17 at 16:19
Run Duration	121 Seconds
Run User	ARG-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.8% Excellent	Memory 97.5 1-Core 119 2-Core 235 86% 151 Pts	4-Core 411 8-Core 615 64% 513 Pts	64-Core 616 38% 616 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 86.8% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Zotac(19DA 1370) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1430 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	62.6% Good	Lighting 79.3 Reflection 82.9 Parallax 74 65% 78.7 fps	MRender 78.9 Gravity 71.8 Splatting 66.2 58% 72.3 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 62.6% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Vector 150 120GB-$89 1,360 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 8GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 34 34 34 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 14978 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1141 (AB) Unknown 80 80 40432720 (AE) Unknown 100 100 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 34 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (D0) Spin buzz 100 100 516 (D2) Unknown 100 100 1 (E0) Load friction 100 100 1 (E9) Unknown 83 83 83 (F1) Unknown 100 100 10795 (F2) Unknown 100 100 6453 (F9) Unknown 100 100 864857107	94.3% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 424 Mixed 454 104% 464 MB/s	4K Read 27.3 4K Write 127 4K Mixed 21.4 136% 58.4 MB/s	DQ Read 225 DQ Write 148 DQ Mixed 60.6 79% 144 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 94.3% Great: 100%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 316GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 169 6325 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6877 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 15757 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1140 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 40 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6836 (C2) HDA temperature 128 106 22 (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	83% Excellent	Read 139 Write 151 Mixed 153 111% 148 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 2.65 4K Mixed 0.21 101% 1.18 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 83% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Sniper DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 3,641 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2448 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	87.2% Excellent	MC Read 32.4 MC Write 33.1 MC Mixed 28 89% 31.2 GB/s	SC Read 19.9 SC Write 21.6 SC Mixed 26.4 65% 22.6 GB/s	Latency 48.2 83% 48.2 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 87.2% Great: 87%

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Gaming 65%

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Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 55%

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Motherboard: Asus GRYPHON Z97 - $176

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	65x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	18x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	17x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	21x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	11x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	10x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	9x
840 Evo 500GBSamsung $150Bench 103%, 68,337 samples	8x
SSDNow V300 240GBKingston $35Bench 64%, 176,713 samples	7x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	6x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBCorsairBench 55%, 6,625 samples	5x
RipjawsX DDR3 2400 C11 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 68%, 1,661 samples	5x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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