Asus Z97-C

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 14% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 81.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	13% 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	82.3% 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.

Very high background CPU (42%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-C (all builds)
Memory	14 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150515
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 26 '18 at 01:29
Run Duration	194 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	42%

PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4590-$188 151,366 User benchmarks, average bench 63% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	81.6% Excellent	Memory 93.1 1-Core 108 2-Core 210 79% 137 Pts	4-Core 406 8-Core 408 54% 407 Pts	64-Core 408 25% 408 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 81.6% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 7770 38,053 User benchmarks, average bench 12% Gigabyte(1458 2556) 1GB CLim: 1100 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 17.7 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	13% Very poor	Lighting 15.4 Reflection 18.2 Parallax 20.3 13% 18 fps	MRender 15.3 Gravity 14.1 Splatting 20.1 14% 16.5 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 13% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 589GB free Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 291 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 132 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 77 56 23 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 6 (EB) Unknown 99 99 12 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3698719327	106% Outstanding	Read 492 Write 402 Mixed 419 97% 438 MB/s	4K Read 32.8 4K Write 90.9 4K Mixed 44.2 154% 56 MB/s	DQ Read 355 DQ Write 277 DQ Mixed 22.1 96% 218 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 133%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 134GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10667 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1727 (B1) Unknown 96 96 73 (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 62 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 462 (EB) Unknown 99 99 77 (F1) Unknown 99 99 38259722844	82.3% Excellent	Read 495 Write 396 Mixed 419 97% 437 MB/s	4K Read 35.2 4K Write 85.5 4K Mixed 19.3 123% 46.6 MB/s	DQ Read 30.9 DQ Write 83.6 DQ Mixed 102 65% 72.3 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 124%
Seagate Archive HDD 8TB (2015)-$137 2,225 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 2.5TB free Firmware: AR15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 34554240 (03) Spinup time 92 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6197 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 117223685 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7349 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1586 (B7) Unknown 2 2 98 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 1 73015689215 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 79 58 353370133 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 4233 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 14364 (C2) HDA temperature 21 42 34359738389 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 111 99 34554240 (C5) Current pending sector count 93 93 2488 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 93 93 2488 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 1 728102 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -53158810218940 (F1) Unknown 100 253 41270378952 (F2) Unknown 100 253 279405153961
Poor: 21% Great: 87%
USB Flash Drive 32GB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 26GB free, PID 2005 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	36.7% Below average	Read 190 Write 31.5 Mixed 38.1 79% 86.7 MB/s	4K Read 5.5 4K Write 0.31 4K Mixed 0.23 39% 2.01 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 36.7% Great: 37%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial CT102464BD160B.C16 2x8GB 4,052 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	61.4% Good	MC Read 22.5 MC Write 22.8 MC Mixed 18.1 60% 21.1 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 19.9 SC Mixed 19.2 54% 18.7 GB/s	Latency 62 64% 62 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 61%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97-C - $256

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	239x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	172x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	85x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	76x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	51x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	49x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	32x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	23x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	21x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	40x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	30x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 58%, 8,730 samples	25x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $913

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