Asus Z97-P

Performance Results


Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	14.2% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	72.4% 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-P (all builds)
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150305
Uptime	3.2 Days
Run Date	Dec 17 '17 at 07:08
Run Duration	195 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing above expectations (77^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	86.6% Excellent	Memory 94 1-Core 124 2-Core 225 85% 148 Pts	4-Core 428 8-Core 658 67% 543 Pts	64-Core 659 41% 659 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 86.6% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 460-$203 31,648 User benchmarks, average bench 12% EVGA(3842 1372) 1GB CLim: 763 MHz, MLim: 950 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	14.2% Very poor	Lighting 16.4 Reflection 19.2 Parallax 14.6 13% 16.7 fps	MRender 23 Gravity 16.5 Splatting 19.1 16% 19.5 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 14.2% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 341GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3461 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 533 (A5) Unknown 100 100 51560710378 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 49 (A8) Unknown 100 100 6 (A9) Unknown 100 100 600 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 88 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 45 193274642462 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 56 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 283469676610 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1217 (EA) Unknown 100 100 4805 (F1) Unknown 253 253 4156 (F2) Unknown 253 253 8622 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	72.4% Very good	Read 489 Write 255 Mixed 245 72% 330 MB/s	4K Read 23.9 4K Write 59.3 4K Mixed 15.1 87% 32.8 MB/s	DQ Read 342 DQ Write 190 DQ Mixed 38.9 90% 190 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 72.4% Great: 108%
Hitachi HDT725050VLA360 500GB-$159 3,335 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 79GB free Firmware: V56OA73A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 169 169 38671352143 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3520 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 173 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 65430 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2379 (C0) Power-off retract count 95 95 6550 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 6550 (C2) HDA temperature 166 166 240518758436 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 174 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 253 1209	39.1% Below average	Read 70 Write 65.8 Mixed 66.2 51% 67.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.37 92% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 39.1% Great: 40%
Hitachi HDT725050VLA360 1TB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2GB free Firmware: 01.01B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 395 (03) Spinup time 187 174 7625 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2710 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 51 51 35872 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1935 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1498 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 171 171 89769 (C2) HDA temperature 120 97 32 (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 6830 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	22.7% Poor	Read 39.7 Write 39 Mixed 38.1 29% 38.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.3 81% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 22.7% Great: 86%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 19,522 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	60.5% Good	MC Read 21.6 MC Write 22.1 MC Mixed 19.2 60% 21 GB/s	SC Read 13.7 SC Write 20.7 SC Mixed 17.4 49% 17.3 GB/s	Latency 59.8 67% 59.8 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 60.5% Great: 63%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97-P - $110

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	976x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	673x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	322x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	481x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	222x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	219x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	176x
SSDNow V300 240GBKingston $35Bench 64%, 176,713 samples	100x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	85x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	160x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	115x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	74x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $758

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $542	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16