Asrock Z97 Extreme6

Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 81.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	79.1% 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	230% 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	Asrock Z97 Extreme6 (all builds)
Memory	11.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150526
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Sep 09 '17 at 10:39
Run Duration	366 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd 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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	81.1% Excellent	Memory 91.5 1-Core 120 2-Core 227 84% 146 Pts	4-Core 382 8-Core 598 60% 490 Pts	64-Core 581 36% 581 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 81.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing below potential (55^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	79.1% Very good	Lighting 102 Reflection 111 Parallax 99.6 83% 104 fps	MRender 91.6 Gravity 94.3 Splatting 79 71% 88.3 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 79.1% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung SM951 AHCI PCIe M.2 512GB-$290 5,772 User benchmarks, average bench 185% 348GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW2500Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3735 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 688 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 97 97 77 (AE) Unknown 99 99 10 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1646 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 61 43 39 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 39824 (F1) Unknown 99 99 16795 (F2) Unknown 99 99 10695	230% Outstanding	Read 1,923 Write 1,255 Mixed 1,443 341% 1,540 MB/s	4K Read 44.3 4K Write 135 4K Mixed 47.8 200% 75.8 MB/s	DQ Read 419 DQ Write 315 DQ Mixed 195 193% 310 MB/s
Poor: 114% ↑ This bench: 230% Great: 241%
Crucial M500 480GB-$84 9,168 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 158GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1423 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7821 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1382 (AA) Unknown 100 100 16 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 29 (AE) Unknown 100 100 329 (B5) Unknown 100 100 6433887421511 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1070 (C2) HDA temperature 67 62 167500316705 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 4294967295 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 16 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	96.1% Outstanding	Read 494 Write 406 Mixed 437 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 25.7 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 29.3 132% 53.1 MB/s	DQ Read 298 DQ Write 238 DQ Mixed 50.2 97% 196 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 96.1% Great: 100%
Crucial M4 512GB-$74 4,600 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 151GB free Firmware: 040H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 9526 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1503 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 15 (AE) Unknown 100 100 136 (B5) Unknown 100 100 2143203885323 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 159 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 214 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	72.5% Very good	Read 501 Write 256 Mixed 341 81% 366 MB/s	4K Read 23.2 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 9.02 101% 45 MB/s	DQ Read 179 DQ Write 205 DQ Mixed 11.3 58% 132 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 81%
Crucial M4 256GB-$218 17,938 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 143GB free Firmware: 040H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7659 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1374 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 12 (AE) Unknown 100 100 161 (B5) Unknown 100 100 532577517667 (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 86 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	69.3% Good	Read 496 Write 269 Mixed 348 82% 371 MB/s	4K Read 22.6 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 4.13 95% 44.1 MB/s	DQ Read 166 DQ Write 144 DQ Mixed 5.75 45% 105 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 69.3% Great: 74%
Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB-$70 27,495 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 101GB free Firmware: 506ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 102 5760634 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 -128342212729971 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1532 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 382 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 25 74 64429359129 (C2) HDA temperature 25 74 64429359129 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 5760634 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 5760634 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 5760634 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 3715 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3722 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3722 (F2) Unknown 0 0 3923	83.7% Excellent	Read 463 Write 258 Mixed 292 75% 338 MB/s	4K Read 34.6 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 22.5 135% 53 MB/s	DQ Read 237 DQ Write 211 DQ Mixed 40.4 80% 163 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 83.7% Great: 94%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2TB free Firmware: CC51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 33468728 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1772 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 8609077542 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8567 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1466 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 95 95 5 (BE) vendor-specific 73 70 454230043 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 777 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 29588 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 55834574875 (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 128505421502707 (F1) Unknown 100 253 17632109074 (F2) Unknown 100 253 41822735298	74% Very good	Read 142 Write 116 Mixed 115 94% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.07 4K Mixed 0.19 60% 0.58 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 96%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC52 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 40243528 (03) Spinup time 91 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1499 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 40315727 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7716 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1348 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 73 64 471007259 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 760 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 64 64 72849 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 60129542171 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -38783554679327 (F1) Unknown 100 253 21757240665 (F2) Unknown 100 253 48316283558	70.7% Very good	Read 135 Write 112 Mixed 122 93% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.06 4K Mixed 0.14 58% 0.58 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 96%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 909GB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 134651464 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2776 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 12953956512 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13608 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2245 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 17 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 65 4799594523 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 883 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2822 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 -140737488355301 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 26 5 134651464 (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 -69196218091632 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2786193353 (F2) Unknown 100 253 698964431	57.3% Above average	Read 113 Write 87.1 Mixed 77.5 69% 92.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.04 4K Mixed 0.39 89% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 57.3% Great: 75%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$65 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 342GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 198 1688 (03) Spinup time 117 113 7125 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4439 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 63 63 27054 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2747 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1060 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5727 (C2) HDA temperature 118 97 29 (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	56.4% Above average	Read 109 Write 87.7 Mixed 93 73% 96.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.22 84% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 56.4% Great: 57%
Seagate ST9500320AS 500GB 173 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 203GB free Firmware: 0002BSM2 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 81239500 (03) Spinup time 97 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2088 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4298686106 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 6112 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1208 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 4295032848 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 78 57 387055638 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 4 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 31 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 21398 (C2) HDA temperature 22 43 51539607574 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 58 58 81239500 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	32.8% Below average	Read 60.1 Write 54.4 Mixed 56.4 43% 56.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 0.86 4K Mixed 0.29 62% 0.5 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 32.8% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 22,320 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	56.4% Above average	MC Read 20.5 MC Write 21 MC Mixed 16.2 55% 19.2 GB/s	SC Read 14.6 SC Write 20.5 SC Mixed 17.8 50% 17.6 GB/s	Latency 64.9 62% 64.9 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 56.4% Great: 63%

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Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z97 Extreme6 - $220

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	555x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	146x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	77x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	127x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	77x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	54x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	38x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	31x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	25x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	25x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 51%, 21,220 samples	24x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	24x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $862

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