Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

Performance Results


Gaming 119% UFO	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 101% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 88.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	135% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	156% 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	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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO GAMER (all builds)
Memory	24.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 05 '18 at 02:34
Run Duration	293 Seconds
Run User	ARG-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing as expected (60^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 4.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.9% Excellent	Memory 95.8 1-Core 132 2-Core 260 91% 162 Pts	4-Core 442 8-Core 693 70% 568 Pts	64-Core 704 44% 704 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 88.9% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	135% Outstanding	Lighting 191 Reflection 208 Parallax 183 156% 194 fps	MRender 132 Gravity 182 Splatting 128 119% 147 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 135% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 369GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B6Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	156% Outstanding	Read 690 Write 637 Mixed 686 150% 671 MB/s	4K Read 46.3 4K Write 136 4K Mixed 63.9 224% 82.2 MB/s	DQ Read 481 DQ Write 435 DQ Mixed 214 227% 376 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 156% Great: 353%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 226GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 12794 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1658 (B1) Unknown 98 98 29 (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 71 46 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 97 97 2055 (EB) Unknown 99 99 130 (F1) Unknown 99 99 42548380558	114% Outstanding	Read 501 Write 403 Mixed 419 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 43 4K Write 98.9 4K Mixed 48.3 180% 63.4 MB/s	DQ Read 362 DQ Write 280 DQ Mixed 115 142% 252 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 134%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 29GB free Firmware: 527ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 3824432 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 -55731495615989 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2527 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 470 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 28 44 1009320198172 (C2) HDA temperature 28 44 1009320198172 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3824432 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3824432 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3824432 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 10792 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9493 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9493 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9939	67.6% Good	Read 495 Write 204 Mixed 254 70% 318 MB/s	4K Read 21.6 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 14.3 106% 46.5 MB/s	DQ Read 31.9 DQ Write 183 DQ Mixed 60.4 60% 91.7 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 85%
Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB-$80 85,620 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2.5TB free Firmware: MX6OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 68 (03) Spinup time 139 139 34387657103 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1525 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 121 121 34 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6574 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 791 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 2894 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 2894 (C2) HDA temperature 139 139 231929085995 (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 200 200 0	77.8% Very good	Read 158 Write 113 Mixed 145 105% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.15 4K Mixed 0.18 63% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 107%
Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB-$80 85,620 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 922GB free Firmware: MX6OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 69 (03) Spinup time 132 132 34388181425 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 840 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6600 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 791 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 2005 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2005 (C2) HDA temperature 136 136 227634118700 (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 200 200 0	78.8% Very good	Read 134 Write 141 Mixed 123 100% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.37 4K Mixed 0.21 76% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 78.8% Great: 107%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 564GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 164 5950 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5912 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 64 64 26908 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3851 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 507 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 105 105 287639 (C2) HDA temperature 120 100 30 (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	46.9% Average	Read 84.8 Write 78.3 Mixed 80.2 61% 81.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.13 71% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 46.9% Great: 67%
Toshiba MQ01ABB200 2TB 1,626 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 208GB free Firmware: AY000U Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 4752 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 5682 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 34 34 26657 (0A) Spinup retry count 213 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1057 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 166 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 84 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 84 84 162037 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 231928889373 (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 200 200 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 84 84 6664 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 264 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	46.3% Average	Read 83 Write 78.3 Mixed 76.9 60% 79.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.25 4K Write 1.26 4K Mixed 0.17 52% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 46.3% Great: 61%
TOSHIBA DT01ACA300 802GB 92 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 735GB free, PID 0400 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	51.6% Above average	Read 126 Write 128 Mixed 105 153% 120 MB/s	4K Read 1.05 4K Write 1.65 4K Mixed 0.17 66% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 51.6% Great: 52%
TOSHIBA DT01ACA300 2TB 101 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 554GB free, PID 0400 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	49.6% Average	Read 120 Write 123 Mixed 64.2 127% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.18 65% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 49.6% Great: 66%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Sniper DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GB 546 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	70.5% Very good	MC Read 25.5 MC Write 25.4 MC Mixed 21.8 69% 24.2 GB/s	SC Read 18.4 SC Write 24.2 SC Mixed 22.9 62% 21.8 GB/s	Latency 54.5 73% 54.5 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 70.5% Great: 86%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

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Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,399x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	543x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	293x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	454x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	220x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	181x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	187x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	107x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	74x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	126x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	108x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	103x

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Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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