Asus Z97-K

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 89.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	92.7% 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	115% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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-K (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160331
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Apr 17 '17 at 22:12
Run Duration	243 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	3%

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PC Performing above expectations (66^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.8% Excellent	Memory 96.2 1-Core 134 2-Core 268 93% 166 Pts	4-Core 450 8-Core 691 71% 570 Pts	64-Core 699 43% 699 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 89.8% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2201 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.7% Outstanding	Lighting 118 Reflection 120 Parallax 102 96% 113 fps	MRender 107 Gravity 104 Splatting 105 86% 105 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 92.7% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M550 128GB-$40 2,673 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 82GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4475 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1424 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 49 (AE) Unknown 100 100 363 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1036 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 49 40 257699020851 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 6935049198 (F7) Unknown 100 100 217420014 (F8) Unknown 100 100 180989585	106% Outstanding	Read 523 Write 346 Mixed 409 94% 426 MB/s	4K Read 32.9 4K Write 123 4K Mixed 38.2 164% 64.9 MB/s	DQ Read 375 DQ Write 286 DQ Mixed 62.6 120% 241 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 104%
SanDisk Ultra II 120GB-$76 9,139 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 65GB free Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 5483 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1693 (A5) Unknown 100 100 150351511933 (A6) Unknown 100 100 4 (A7) Unknown 100 100 21 (A8) Unknown 100 100 45 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 9 (AE) Unknown 100 100 489 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 60 58 249109151784 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1447425999185 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1007 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1917 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1569 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1830 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	77.2% Very good	Read 450 Write 196 Mixed 160 58% 268 MB/s	4K Read 36.1 4K Write 82.5 4K Mixed 21.2 126% 46.6 MB/s	DQ Read 308 DQ Write 169 DQ Mixed 46 86% 174 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 77.2% Great: 93%
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 38GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6403 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1751 (B1) Unknown 93 93 140 (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 54 37 46 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 398 (F1) Unknown 99 99 33753919159	115% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 412 Mixed 415 100% 447 MB/s	4K Read 46.4 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 45.5 182% 64.3 MB/s	DQ Read 367 DQ Write 244 DQ Mixed 96.2 128% 236 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 115%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 498GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 122572104 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2107 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 101341552 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6765 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1884 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8 (BD) vendor-specific 89 89 11 (BE) vendor-specific 56 45 806813740 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 173 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 80 80 40530 (C2) HDA temperature 44 55 51539607596 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -3010772069668 (F1) Unknown 100 253 56896027769 (F2) Unknown 100 253 7765764656659	74.5% Very good	Read 142 Write 118 Mixed 102 90% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 0.53 4K Mixed 0.2 65% 0.5 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 74.5% Great: 114%
Seagate ST3500312CS 500GB-$24 89,637 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 95GB free Firmware: SC13 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 105971747 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 78 78 22549 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 184030717 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8114 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 464 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 58 51 756482090 (C2) HDA temperature 42 49 47244640298 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 53 36 105971747 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	38.8% Below average	Read 67.1 Write 68 Mixed 64 50% 66.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.42 100% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 38.8% Great: 60%
Seagate Momentus 5400.6 2.5" 500GB-$16 83,084 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 71GB free Firmware: D005DEM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 90 201526913 (03) Spinup time 98 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4625 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 72016203 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5781 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2040 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 488 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 60 42 120998723624 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 267 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 109 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 79 79 43643 (C2) HDA temperature 40 58 38654705704 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 48 45 201526913 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -119103738082587 (F1) Unknown 100 253 287445493 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3821596282 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	23% Poor	Read 43 Write 37.3 Mixed 44.1 31% 41.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.28 4K Write 0.8 4K Mixed 0.27 57% 0.45 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 23% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 4x4GB 14,299 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1616 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	61.8% Good	MC Read 21.6 MC Write 22.1 MC Mixed 18.3 59% 20.7 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 23.2 SC Mixed 19.8 57% 20 GB/s	Latency 53.2 75% 53.2 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 61.8% Great: 64%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-K - $147

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	875x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	663x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	498x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	332x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	200x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	167x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	95x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	72x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	71x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	148x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	133x
CT102464BA160B.C16 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 11,058 samples	44x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $795

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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) $30	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