Asus Z97-PRO (Wi-Fi ac)

Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 70% Battleship


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 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 90%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	95.4% 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	75% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO (Wi-Fi ac) (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151027
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 18 '18 at 15:29
Run Duration	86 Seconds
Run User	QAT-User
Background CPU	1%

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 i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90% Outstanding	Memory 92.5 1-Core 135 2-Core 270 92% 166 Pts	4-Core 471 8-Core 709 73% 590 Pts	64-Core 711 44% 711 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 90% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 855B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1610 MHz, MLim: 1990 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.4% Outstanding	Lighting 124 Reflection 129 Parallax 116 101% 123 fps	MRender 106 Gravity 114 Splatting 91.3 84% 104 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95.4% Great: 87%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 250GB-$80 26,761 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 46GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41100WD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3775 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 185 (A5) Unknown 100 100 12948996969 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 46 (A8) Unknown 100 100 24 (A9) Unknown 100 100 341 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 15 (AE) Unknown 100 100 148 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 62 52 223339937830 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 2409511125553 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3710 (EA) Unknown 100 100 6357 (F1) Unknown 253 253 5009 (F2) Unknown 253 253 5959 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	75% Very good	Read 499 Write 327 Mixed 326 85% 384 MB/s	4K Read 38 4K Write 71 4K Mixed 14.4 114% 41.1 MB/s	DQ Read 38.9 DQ Write 78.5 DQ Mixed 38 35% 51.8 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 75% Great: 100%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905403-728.A00LF 2x8GB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (10^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	32.8% Below average	MC Read 11.3 MC Write 10.6 MC Mixed 8.4 29% 10.1 GB/s	SC Read 10.2 SC Write 11.7 SC Mixed 11.1 31% 11 GB/s	Latency 63 64% 63 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 32.8% Great: 58%

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

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Gaming 43%

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Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97-PRO (Wi-Fi ac)

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	583x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	129x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	83x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	139x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	55x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	52x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	41x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	36x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	29x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	48x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	31x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	28x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $677

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 $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $46

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	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