Asrock Z97 Extreme6

Performance Results


Gaming 13% Tree trunk	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 12% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 87.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	5.46% 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	87.9% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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.

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Motherboard	Asrock Z97 Extreme6 (all builds)
Memory	21.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140915
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Feb 21 '18 at 18:04
Run Duration	385 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	27%

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PC Performing as expected (50^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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	87.1% Excellent	Memory 97.1 1-Core 114 2-Core 218 83% 143 Pts	4-Core 417 8-Core 612 64% 514 Pts	64-Core 641 40% 641 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 87.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.77 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	5.46% Terrible	Lighting 5.97 Reflection 12.2 Parallax 9.41 5% 9.19 fps	MRender 15.1 Gravity 5.6 Splatting 5.22 7% 8.64 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 5.46% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 589GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3057 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 87 (B1) Unknown 99 99 6 (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 51 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 55 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13351204166	87.9% Excellent	Read 502 Write 395 Mixed 409 97% 435 MB/s	4K Read 37.9 4K Write 77.5 4K Mixed 25.1 131% 46.8 MB/s	DQ Read 42.6 DQ Write 185 DQ Mixed 24.8 45% 84 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 133%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 20GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 22313 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 153 (B1) Unknown 97 97 51 (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 74 54 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 82 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23013461897	102% Outstanding	Read 503 Write 399 Mixed 412 97% 438 MB/s	4K Read 40.4 4K Write 75.4 4K Mixed 40.9 154% 52.2 MB/s	DQ Read 284 DQ Write 190 DQ Mixed 80.7 102% 185 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 134%
Intel Raid 1 Volume 2TB 7,767 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 265GB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	69.7% Good	Read 125 Write 118 Mixed 125 92% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.24 94% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 69.7% Great: 123%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 54GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 238 162 3083 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2982 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 29 29 52007 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 747 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 454 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 726451 (C2) HDA temperature 124 97 26 (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 200 198 143 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	56.3% Above average	Read 103 Write 93.2 Mixed 108 77% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 0.2 64% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 56.3% Great: 67%
TS-RDF8 CF Transcend 64GB 12 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 57GB free, PID 4000 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	56.5% Above average	Read 151 Write 128 Mixed 119 166% 133 MB/s	4K Read 8.97 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 1.2 124% 3.88 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 56.5% Great: 54%
TS-RDF8 SD Transcend 32GB 127 User benchmarks, average bench 23% 29GB free, PID 4000 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	9.58% Terrible	Read 22.9 Write 4.97 Mixed 7.54 12% 11.8 MB/s	4K Read 4.74 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 1.47 112% 2.51 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 9.58% Great: 40%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 4x8GB 7,519 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	78% Very good	MC Read 30.1 MC Write 29.5 MC Mixed 22.8 78% 27.5 GB/s	SC Read 18.6 SC Write 22 SC Mixed 23.5 61% 21.4 GB/s	Latency 50.1 80% 50.1 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 119%

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Gaming 43%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z97 Extreme6 - $220

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	556x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	146x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	77x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	127x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	77x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	54x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	39x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	31x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	25x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	25x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 51%, 21,220 samples	25x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	24x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $862

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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) $64	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16