Asus Z97M-PLUS/BR

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 28% Raft	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 24% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	32% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z97M-PLUS/BR (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1440 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160222
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 26 '17 at 18:22
Run Duration	120 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (75^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	86.1% Excellent	Memory 87.9 1-Core 128 2-Core 232 85% 149 Pts	4-Core 454 8-Core 661 70% 558 Pts	64-Core 649 40% 649 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1050-Ti-$59 946,701 User benchmarks, average bench 29% Gigabyte(1458 3732) CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	32% Below average	Lighting 39.8 Reflection 31.7 Parallax 38.3 32% 36.6 fps	MRender 39.7 Gravity 38.1 Splatting 36.9 31% 38.2 fps
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 32% Great: 33%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate ST3160813AS 500GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 293GB free Firmware: CR100-13 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 253 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 5760 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6844 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8814 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2791 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 57388 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 5 (BE) vendor-specific 65 53 35 (C2) HDA temperature 130 97 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 57388 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2850 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 119	39.5% Below average	Read 66.4 Write 71.2 Mixed 71.2 52% 69.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.21 4K Mixed 0.37 83% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 39.5% Great: 50%
Samsung HM321HI 320GB-$40 12,451 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 70GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 30 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 89 89 3403 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2657 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4780 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 540 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2413 (BF) G-sense error rate 98 98 28449 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 62 56 188979085350 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 886 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 540 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 70609	38.3% Below average	Read 67.1 Write 66.4 Mixed 66 50% 66.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.11 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.18 44% 0.46 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 38.3% Great: 50%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9 Kingston 99U5403-036.A00LF 0215 CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9 Kingston 99P5474-022.A00LF 16GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	50.7% Above average	MC Read 17.7 MC Write 18.2 MC Mixed 15.4 49% 17.1 GB/s	SC Read 14.5 SC Write 18.9 SC Mixed 16.1 47% 16.5 GB/s	Latency 69.6 57% 69.6 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 50.7% Great: 52%

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Gaming 38%

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Desktop 77%

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Workstation 32%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97M-PLUS/BR

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	75x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	63x
Core i5-4690Intel $51Bench 67%, 73,695 samples	23x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	46x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	22x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	21x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	21x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	12x
SSDNow V300 240GBKingston $35Bench 64%, 176,713 samples	11x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	28x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	15x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	10x

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Total price: $363

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $500	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16