Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

Performance Results


Gaming 116% UFO	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 92% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 94.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	120% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	195% 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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO GAMER (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	1.8 Days
Run Date	Jun 15 '18 at 18:13
Run Duration	186 Seconds
Run User	MYS-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.9% Outstanding	Memory 97.9 1-Core 132 2-Core 268 93% 166 Pts	4-Core 532 8-Core 530 71% 531 Pts	64-Core 544 34% 544 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 94.9% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 2138 MHz, MLim: 2782 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	120% Outstanding	Lighting 163 Reflection 169 Parallax 160 133% 164 fps	MRender 131 Gravity 159 Splatting 122 111% 137 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 403GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3816 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 296 (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 71 61 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 53 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1513210712	114% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 414 Mixed 422 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 49.7 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 51.5 201% 71.4 MB/s	DQ Read 49.2 DQ Write 244 DQ Mixed 31.1 58% 108 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 134%
Kingston SHSS37A480G 480GB 14,802 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 195GB free Firmware: SAFM001B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 11300 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 795 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 865 (AD) Unknown 100 100 262158 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 197 (C2) HDA temperature 72 64 154620067868 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1942 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1781 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2105 (F4) Unknown 100 100 4 (F5) Unknown 100 100 14 (F6) Unknown 100 100 562944	91.5% Outstanding	Read 521 Write 508 Mixed 511 115% 513 MB/s	4K Read 31.6 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 13.2 127% 54.3 MB/s	DQ Read 32.7 DQ Write 130 DQ Mixed 13.2 30% 58.6 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 91.5% Great: 110%
Liteon IT SCS-256L9S 256GB 160 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 187GB free Firmware: RC80206 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 557056 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1914 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1309 (AA) Unknown 100 100 68 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 12 (AE) Unknown 100 100 485 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 13052 (B2) Unknown 100 100 2 (B3) Unknown 100 100 68 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1280 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 1 1 562 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 68 (BC) Unknown 100 100 29 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 485 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 68 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 62 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 97 97 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3263 (F1) Unknown 100 100 73630 (F2) Unknown 100 100 95071	87.3% Excellent	Read 493 Write 393 Mixed 430 98% 439 MB/s	4K Read 36 4K Write 99.2 4K Mixed 24.1 138% 53.1 MB/s	DQ Read 37.4 DQ Write 101 DQ Mixed 23.8 31% 54.2 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 102%
Samsung PM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB 99,566 User benchmarks, average bench 177% 133GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXB7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	195% Outstanding	Read 1,458 Write 1,065 Mixed 1,070 266% 1,198 MB/s	4K Read 62.6 4K Write 134 4K Mixed 39.4 216% 78.5 MB/s	DQ Read 64.3 DQ Write 306 DQ Mixed 164 132% 178 MB/s
Poor: 106% ↑ This bench: 195% Great: 236%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 713GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 175 4125 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1339 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 17025 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1171 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 277 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1061 (C2) HDA temperature 115 84 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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 36	69% Good	Read 138 Write 103 Mixed 114 89% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 2.13 4K Mixed 0.4 118% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 20,216 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.5% Excellent	MC Read 32.7 MC Write 33.8 MC Mixed 29.3 91% 31.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 24.8 SC Mixed 27.6 67% 23.4 GB/s	Latency 46.7 86% 46.7 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 89.5% Great: 86%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

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Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,395x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	541x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	293x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	452x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	220x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	181x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	187x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	107x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	74x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	126x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	108x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	103x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $275	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