Asus Z97-AR

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


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 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 85.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	99.3% 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	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

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-AR (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150212
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 12 '17 at 05:09
Run Duration	200 Seconds
Run User	PRI-User
Background CPU	3%

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 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 (93^rd percentile)	85.6% Excellent	Memory 95.6 1-Core 132 2-Core 236 88% 154 Pts	4-Core 409 8-Core 582 62% 496 Pts	64-Core 682 42% 682 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX Titan-$1,088 6,806 User benchmarks, average bench 47% EVGA(3842 2791) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1344 MHz, MLim: 1547 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.5 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 43% Great: 50%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 100GB free Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 92 92 6834473 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 9517647540341 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3250 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 449 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 6834473 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 6834473 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 6834473 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 17356 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11078 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11078 (F2) Unknown 0 0 19063	73.5% Very good	Read 503 Write 135 Mixed 183 59% 274 MB/s	4K Read 33.8 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 20.9 135% 54.3 MB/s	DQ Read 143 DQ Write 119 DQ Mixed 46.6 58% 103 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 73.5% Great: 82%
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 64GB free Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 94 94 7076885 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 130489696399475 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3248 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 447 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 7076885 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 7076885 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 7076885 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 17140 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11061 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11061 (F2) Unknown 0 0 19129	73.2% Very good	Read 499 Write 128 Mixed 230 62% 286 MB/s	4K Read 33.5 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 20.9 133% 53.1 MB/s	DQ Read 172 DQ Write 132 DQ Mixed 50.3 65% 118 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 73.2% Great: 82%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 29GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	99.3% Outstanding	Read 767 Write 232 Mixed 460 106% 486 MB/s	4K Read 45.1 4K Write 125 4K Mixed 28.7 171% 66.2 MB/s	DQ Read 46.6 DQ Write 153 DQ Mixed 28.1 42% 75.9 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 99.3% Great: 283%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 706GB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 217999560 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3452 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 62 60 1802565 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3407 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1536 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 91 91 9 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065667 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 50 538509343 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 620 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 15289 (C2) HDA temperature 31 50 77309411359 (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 -44706314582805 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3837714902 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1798650065	97% Outstanding	Read 176 Write 162 Mixed 154 123% 164 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.17 4K Mixed 0.25 75% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 97% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 466GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 214284207 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 85 85 15666 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 235851316 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 18079 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 37 6884 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 94 8590065677 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 46 538509343 (C2) HDA temperature 31 54 85899345951 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 26 15 214284207 (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 -129519033749189 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2384166150 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1895274459	61.4% Good	Read 116 Write 97.6 Mixed 108 81% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.64 134% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 4x4GB 2,168 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	82.8% Excellent	MC Read 30.9 MC Write 31.3 MC Mixed 26.1 84% 29.4 GB/s	SC Read 20 SC Write 23.7 SC Mixed 25.7 66% 23.1 GB/s	Latency 55.1 72% 55.1 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 82.8% Great: 88%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-AR - $140

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	560x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	320x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	95x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	182x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	85x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	66x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	53x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	36x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	56x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	55x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	38x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $788

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