Asus Z97-E/USB 3.1

Performance Results


Gaming 55% Gunboat	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 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 80.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	64.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	109% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-E/USB 3.1 (all builds)
Memory	21.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160316
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Nov 21 '17 at 06:29
Run Duration	108 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	29%

PC Performing as expected (46^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 above expectations (62^nd percentile)	80.6% Excellent	Memory 89.2 1-Core 115 2-Core 214 80% 139 Pts	4-Core 389 8-Core 597 61% 493 Pts	64-Core 632 39% 632 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 80.6% 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 1996) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.31 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	64.6% Good	Lighting 84.5 Reflection 87.9 Parallax 69.8 69% 80.8 fps	MRender 68.2 Gravity 70.8 Splatting 67.2 56% 68.7 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 64.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 130GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2340 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1036 (B1) Unknown 99 99 18 (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 50 48 50 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 81 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12546844375	109% Outstanding	Read 505 Write 400 Mixed 413 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 42.8 4K Write 80.9 4K Mixed 46.4 167% 56.7 MB/s	DQ Read 336 DQ Write 231 DQ Mixed 126 137% 231 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 134%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 614GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 163418704 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1377 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 64 60 2675796 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2167 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1036 (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 54 52 773128238 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 42 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1668 (C2) HDA temperature 46 48 64424509486 (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 -39608188402169 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1219091105 (F2) Unknown 100 253 962814947	73.2% Very good	Read 95.5 Write 159 Mixed 142 100% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 5.24 4K Mixed 0.56 178% 2.08 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 73.2% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GB 12,722 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	63.8% Good	MC Read 23 MC Write 24.3 MC Mixed 20.6 65% 22.6 GB/s	SC Read 14.6 SC Write 20.7 SC Mixed 17.7 50% 17.7 GB/s	Latency 68.3 59% 68.3 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 63.8% Great: 80%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

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	67x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	65x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	57x
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 $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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