Asus Z97-C

Performance Results


Gaming 46% Yacht	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 36% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	57.4% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	103% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-C (all builds)
Memory	25 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	4096 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160310
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 07 '16 at 06:21
Run Duration	280 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	29%

PC Performing above expectations (68^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 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	74.1% Very good	Memory 92.2 1-Core 103 2-Core 200 77% 132 Pts	4-Core 319 8-Core 354 44% 337 Pts	64-Core 380 24% 380 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 74.1% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Asus(1043 8518) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 21.21.13.7270 Performing below potential (35^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	57.4% Above average	Lighting 73.3 Reflection 77 Parallax 67 60% 72.4 fps	MRender 73.4 Gravity 61.3 Splatting 60.9 53% 65.2 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 57.4% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 750GB-$310 3,724 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 568GB free Firmware: EXT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8993 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 668 (B1) Unknown 98 98 20 (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 51 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 431 (F1) Unknown 99 99 33815384999	96.1% Outstanding	Read 505 Write 345 Mixed 356 89% 402 MB/s	4K Read 44.5 4K Write 84.8 4K Mixed 27.9 148% 52.4 MB/s	DQ Read 311 DQ Write 196 DQ Mixed 70.2 102% 192 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 96.1% Great: 125%
SanDisk Extreme II 480GB-$192 1,439 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 365GB free (System drive) Firmware: R131 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 6635 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 488 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 24 (A8) Unknown 100 100 78 (A9) Unknown 100 100 476 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 12 (AE) Unknown 100 100 196 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 153 657130979355 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 40 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 6574 (F1) Unknown 253 253 3480 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1948 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	103% Outstanding	Read 466 Write 452 Mixed 421 100% 446 MB/s	4K Read 33.7 4K Write 119 4K Mixed 28.1 150% 60.4 MB/s	DQ Read 302 DQ Write 257 DQ Mixed 66.7 108% 209 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 110%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 950GB free Firmware: 51.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 168 6375 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1088 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4630 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 380 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 248 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 176 176 74635 (C2) HDA temperature 114 103 36 (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 0	50.1% Above average	Read 90.4 Write 83.8 Mixed 75.5 62% 83.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.84 4K Mixed 0.2 82% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 50.1% Great: 67%
Samsung HD103SI 1TB-$89 48,059 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 930GB free Firmware: 1AG0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 98 0 (03) Spinup time 83 83 5890 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10604 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 12542 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 17463 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 3 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3482 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 98 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 85 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 1 505151517 (C2) HDA temperature 69 50 521732127 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 288210 (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 99 13 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	60.6% Good	Read 102 Write 109 Mixed 111 81% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.68 4K Mixed 0.42 103% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 60.6% Great: 59%
Samsung HD103SI 1TB-$89 48,059 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 797GB free Firmware: 1AG0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 84 84 5830 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9355 (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 18454 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3482 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 48 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 1 522059806 (C2) HDA temperature 68 55 538640416 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 140599 (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 11 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	54.6% Above average	Read 91.5 Write 98.9 Mixed 94 71% 94.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.41 95% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 54.6% Great: 59%
HGST TOURO Mobile 1TB 337 User benchmarks, average bench 22% 127GB free, PID 1024 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	32.9% Below average	Read 90.1 Write 73.2 Mixed 7.84 63% 57 MB/s	4K Read 0.32 4K Write 1.23 4K Mixed 0.15 48% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 32.9% Great: 38%
Kingston DataTraveler 100 G3 USB 3.0 64GB-$12 26,708 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 54GB free, PID 1666 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Read 128 Write 4.34 46% 66.4 MB/s
Poor: 6% Great: 30%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GB 8,730 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	59.9% Above average	MC Read 21.1 MC Write 22.6 MC Mixed 18.9 60% 20.9 GB/s	SC Read 14.1 SC Write 18.5 SC Mixed 18.7 49% 17.1 GB/s	Latency 63.6 63% 63.6 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 59.9% Great: 63%

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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 $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	33x
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: 62% - Good

Total price: $898

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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