Asus Z97-PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 61% Destroyer	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 52% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 83.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	70.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	60.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151027
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 26 '18 at 23:18
Run Duration	175 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	83.5% Excellent	Memory 94.8 1-Core 120 2-Core 238 86% 151 Pts	4-Core 390 8-Core 626 62% 508 Pts	64-Core 629 39% 629 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 83.5% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Gigabyte(1458 367C) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	70.1% Very good	Lighting 90.9 Reflection 88.4 Parallax 85.9 74% 88.4 fps	MRender 82.4 Gravity 78.9 Splatting 70.1 62% 77.2 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$31 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 177GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z32070RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 4558 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 481 (A5) Unknown 100 100 2499759244591 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 8 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 5 (AE) Unknown 100 100 18 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 60 44 240518168616 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1898380263866 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1219 (EA) Unknown 100 100 12496 (F1) Unknown 253 253 6049 (F2) Unknown 253 253 6092 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	60.4% Good	Read 503 Write 203 Mixed 267 71% 324 MB/s	4K Read 18.5 4K Write 84.4 4K Mixed 4.86 79% 35.9 MB/s	DQ Read 26.1 DQ Write 250 DQ Mixed 0.04 41% 92.1 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 60.4% Great: 86%
Samsung HD752LJ 750GB 228 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 648GB free Firmware: 1AA01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 99 40 (03) Spinup time 75 75 8330 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 4854 (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 93 93 36044 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4279 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 99 19 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 159 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 87 54 218955789 (C2) HDA temperature 83 53 286064657 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 28811 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 4 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	58.4% Above average	Read 103 Write 100 Mixed 102 77% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.82 4K Mixed 0.43 106% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 58.4% Great: 64%
Samsung HD642JJ 640GB-$70 13,060 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 237GB free Firmware: 1AA01112 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 99 1 (03) Spinup time 86 86 5190 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3098 (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 96 96 21985 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 98 98 1566 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2522 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 99 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 9 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 87 62 218955789 (C2) HDA temperature 83 61 286064657 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 100848 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	50.5% Above average	Read 89.1 Write 86.6 Mixed 74.3 62% 83.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 2.35 4K Mixed 0.27 97% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 50.5% Great: 63%
WD My Book 1170 1TB 61 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 841GB free, PID 1170 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	37.2% Below average	Read 87 Write 87.1 Mixed 71.7 104% 81.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.79 4K Mixed 0.16 68% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 37.2% Great: 49%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 0904 5631160 0215 CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 16GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	60.9% Good	MC Read 21.2 MC Write 21.9 MC Mixed 18.6 59% 20.6 GB/s	SC Read 16.7 SC Write 22.2 SC Mixed 20.2 56% 19.7 GB/s	Latency 57.8 69% 57.8 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 61%

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Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-PRO - $215

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	334x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	82x
Core i5-4690KIntel $50Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	69x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	71x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	45x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	35x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	21x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	18x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $55Bench 275%, 495,311 samples	17x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	22x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	19x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	16x

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Value: 63% - Good

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $169	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	WD Black SN850X M.2 2TB $135
Intel Core i5-12400F $110	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	WD Black SN850X M.2 1TB $89
Intel Core i5-13600K $249	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $369