Asrock Z97X Killer

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 60% Gunboat


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 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 84.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	84.5% 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	96.8% 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

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z97X Killer (all builds)
Memory	11.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150512
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jan 16 '17 at 07:23
Run Duration	216 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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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 i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	84.9% Excellent	Memory 92.9 1-Core 114 2-Core 220 82% 142 Pts	4-Core 417 8-Core 584 63% 500 Pts	64-Core 583 36% 583 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 84%

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: 376.33 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	84.5% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 119 Parallax 99.8 86% 108 fps	MRender 98 Gravity 98.2 Splatting 99.7 81% 98.6 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 584GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q 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 96 96 19834 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 31 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (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 72 60 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 8 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9486127249	88.8% Excellent	Read 496 Write 401 Mixed 421 98% 439 MB/s	4K Read 37.5 4K Write 88.6 4K Mixed 20.8 130% 49 MB/s	DQ Read 34.3 DQ Write 263 DQ Mixed 20.4 54% 106 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 88.8% Great: 133%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 410GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 12677 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 30 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 70 57 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 8 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8509526373	96.8% Outstanding	Read 494 Write 399 Mixed 414 97% 436 MB/s	4K Read 39 4K Write 88.6 4K Mixed 24.4 137% 50.7 MB/s	DQ Read 307 DQ Write 252 DQ Mixed 20.2 86% 193 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 96.8% Great: 134%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 241575816 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 319 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 13562895 (09) Power-on hours count 60 60 35783 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 132 (B7) Unknown 95 95 5 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 87 4295032845 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 50 504954908 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 88 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 56 56 89934 (C2) HDA temperature 28 50 73014444060 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 197 53 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -118459492964410 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5979292378 (F2) Unknown 100 253 13677955716	99% Outstanding	Read 178 Write 167 Mixed 152 124% 166 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 1.29 4K Mixed 0.32 99% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 99% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 417GB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 219991376 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 460 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 18650486 (09) Power-on hours count 63 63 32820 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 198 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 91 91 9 (BE) vendor-specific 72 50 504954908 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 106 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 51 51 99347 (C2) HDA temperature 28 50 42949672988 (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 89678917161582 (F1) Unknown 100 253 25568076571 (F2) Unknown 100 253 35212004986	102% Outstanding	Read 181 Write 173 Mixed 124 119% 159 MB/s	4K Read 0.97 4K Write 1.23 4K Mixed 0.18 83% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 114%
ST2000DM 001-1CH164 2TB 64 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 2TB free, PID 0567 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	70.8% Very good	Read 169 Write 187 Mixed 165 226% 174 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.31 73% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 71%
ST2000DM 001-1CH164 2TB 64 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 2TB free, PID 0567 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	63.7% Good	Read 150 Write 174 Mixed 106 183% 143 MB/s	4K Read 0.99 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.33 57% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 63.7% Great: 71%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Sniper DDR3 2133 C11 4x4GB 666 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	58.1% Above average	MC Read 22 MC Write 21.1 MC Mixed 16.4 57% 19.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.6 SC Write 19.4 SC Mixed 20.3 52% 18.1 GB/s	Latency 62.2 64% 62.2 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 58.1% Great: 79%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 37%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asrock Z97X Killer - $195

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	352x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	111x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	57x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	96x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	50x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	49x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	27x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	26x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	26x

RAM
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	33x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	27x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	25x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $882

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) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16