Asus Z97-E/USB 3.1

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 89.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	85.4% 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	117% 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-E/USB 3.1 (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160316
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 17 '17 at 21:54
Run Duration	136 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (76^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.9% Excellent	Memory 98.2 1-Core 132 2-Core 260 92% 163 Pts	4-Core 440 8-Core 694 70% 567 Pts	64-Core 697 43% 697 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 854B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1532 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 385.28 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	85.4% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 115 Parallax 104 91% 110 fps	MRender 96.9 Gravity 99.9 Splatting 83 75% 93.3 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 500GB 25,072 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 170GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2206 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 854 (B1) Unknown 99 99 15 (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 59 42 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 318 (F1) Unknown 99 99 17111055596	117% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 412 Mixed 419 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 48.6 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 48.4 195% 69.6 MB/s	DQ Read 291 DQ Write 251 DQ Mixed 123 133% 222 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 131%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 561GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 202 179 2875 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 979 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1703 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 638 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 230 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 748 (C2) HDA temperature 107 96 40 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	92.8% Outstanding	Read 149 Write 174 Mixed 165 123% 163 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 2.62 4K Mixed 0.32 111% 1.19 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 92.8% Great: 112%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 640GB 1,575 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 275GB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	81.3% Excellent	Read 151 Write 132 Mixed 122 101% 135 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 3.63 4K Mixed 0.7 170% 1.65 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 81.3% Great: 120%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GB 24,592 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	87.1% Excellent	MC Read 31.9 MC Write 32.5 MC Mixed 27.3 87% 30.6 GB/s	SC Read 21.7 SC Write 24.1 SC Mixed 27.6 70% 24.5 GB/s	Latency 45.2 88% 45.2 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 87.1% Great: 88%

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Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-E/USB 3.1

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	252x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	104x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	66x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	65x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	56x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	38x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	30x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	30x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	24x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	63x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	14x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	13x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $657

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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