Asrock Z97 Anniversary

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 60% Gunboat


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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	87.4% 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	47% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z97 Anniversary (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180308
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 31 '18 at 13:44
Run Duration	157 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	21%

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 i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.8% Excellent	Memory 91.2 1-Core 124 2-Core 250 87% 155 Pts	4-Core 485 8-Core 499 65% 492 Pts	64-Core 449 28% 449 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36B6) CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	87.4% Excellent	Lighting 114 Reflection 118 Parallax 106 93% 113 fps	MRender 98.3 Gravity 105 Splatting 84.5 77% 95.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston A400 120GB-$28 166,392 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 24GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFK71E0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1015 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 407 (94) Unknown 255 255 0 (95) Unknown 255 255 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 8 (AA) Unknown 100 100 9 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1507381 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 255 255 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 100 (C2) HDA temperature 71 62 163209871389 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 97 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2405 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2056 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2829 (F4) Unknown 100 100 23 (F5) Unknown 100 100 53 (F6) Unknown 100 100 140268	47% Average	Read 322 Write 235 Mixed 277 62% 278 MB/s	4K Read 22.3 4K Write 47.2 4K Mixed 0.76 60% 23.4 MB/s	DQ Read 28.5 DQ Write 142 DQ Mixed 6.36 28% 59 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 47% Great: 85%
WD Blue 3D 250GB-$50 23,658 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 14GB free Firmware: X61130WD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 9 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4 (A5) Unknown 100 100 4194341 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 42 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 182 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 71 37 158915362845 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 30064771079 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 216 (EA) Unknown 100 100 224 (F1) Unknown 253 253 222 (F2) Unknown 253 253 24 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	65.2% Good	Read 498 Write 168 Mixed 227 65% 298 MB/s	4K Read 28.3 4K Write 37.9 4K Mixed 20.1 89% 28.8 MB/s	DQ Read 230 DQ Write 149 DQ Mixed 44.6 72% 141 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 65.2% Great: 105%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 674GB free Firmware: 2AR20004 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 90 43 3062 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3983 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5110 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 96 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2794 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 19293289 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 114 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 144817 (C2) HDA temperature 64 44 253403791386 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 1315 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 3778 (F1) Unknown 91 88 12249338 (F2) Unknown 92 83 11159893 (FE) Unknown 252 252 0	51.1% Above average	Read 82.9 Write 95.1 Mixed 93.7 68% 90.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.28 79% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 51.1% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-1600C9-4GAB Kingston 9905403-198.A00LF 0420 F3-1600C9-4GAB Kingston KHX1600C9D3/4GX 16GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	52.6% Above average	MC Read 18.2 MC Write 18.7 MC Mixed 16.5 51% 17.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.8 SC Write 18.6 SC Mixed 16.1 47% 16.5 GB/s	Latency 65.4 61% 65.4 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 52.6% Great: 53%

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Typical Z97 Anniversary Builds (Compare 1,187 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asrock Z97 Anniversary - $120

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	327x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	245x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	112x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	141x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	96x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	77x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	69x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $79Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	56x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	40x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	36x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	36x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	29x

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Total price: $768

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16