Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

Performance Results


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


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 79%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	66.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO GAMER (all builds)
Memory	10.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150521
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 30 '20 at 08:53
Run Duration	143 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3-$209 19,313 User benchmarks, average bench 73% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	79% Very good	Memory 88.8 1-Core 115 2-Core 219 80% 141 Pts	4-Core 373 8-Core 583 59% 478 Pts	64-Core 582 36% 582 Pts
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 79% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Zotac(19DA 1394) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 457.30 Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	66.7% Good	Lighting 86.2 Reflection 99.4 Parallax 76.8 70% 87.5 fps	MRender 78.6 Gravity 74.3 Splatting 68.3 60% 73.7 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 66.7% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial BX100 250GB-$141 42,930 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 90GB free Firmware: MU02 SusWrite @10s intervals: 359 358 361 248 294 367 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 359 Mixed 331 SusWrite 331 86% 382 MB/s	4K Read 30.4 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 43.3 159% 60.6 MB/s	DQ Read 278 DQ Write 316 DQ Mixed 196 176% 264 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 103%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free (System drive) Firmware: CC4B SusWrite @10s intervals: 176 168 180 189 183 176 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Read 200 Write 200 Mixed 83.3 SusWrite 179 121% 165 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.9 155% 1 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 114%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 1TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 60 63 63 61 63 63 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	55.1% Above average	Read 130 Write 73.8 Mixed 70.7 SusWrite 62.2 62% 84.2 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 0.7 4K Mixed 0.7 132% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 55.1% Great: 84%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-054.A00LF 2x8GB 9,823 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1648 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	58.9% Above average	MC Read 21.8 MC Write 21.7 MC Mixed 17.1 58% 20.2 GB/s	SC Read 16.8 SC Write 20.8 SC Mixed 19.4 54% 19 GB/s	Latency 68.7 58% 68.7 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 58.9% Great: 61%

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Typical Z97-PRO GAMER Builds (Compare 2,858 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,396x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	541x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	293x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	453x
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 $109Bench 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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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

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 $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) $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