Asus Z97-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 43% Speed boat	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 37% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 92.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	39% 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	107% 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-AR (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 05 '17 at 22:54
Run Duration	209 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (70^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.5% Outstanding	Memory 97.8 1-Core 135 2-Core 257 92% 163 Pts	4-Core 470 8-Core 714 73% 592 Pts	64-Core 721 45% 721 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 92.5% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 770-$279 116,895 User benchmarks, average bench 34% MSI(1462 2835) 2GB CLim: 1306 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 378.66 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	39% Below average	Lighting 47 Reflection 42.9 Parallax 56.3 38% 48.7 fps	MRender 57 Gravity 54.6 Splatting 39.9 40% 50.5 fps
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 39% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 256GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4067 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 36 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (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 66 50 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 11 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6448738310	107% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 416 Mixed 424 101% 452 MB/s	4K Read 48.8 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 29.8 170% 62.8 MB/s	DQ Read 200 DQ Write 287 DQ Mixed 105 118% 197 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 211GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13231 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 70 (B1) Unknown 98 98 25 (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 68 48 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 27 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10523871979	119% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 394 Mixed 423 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 50.3 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 52.1 205% 72.9 MB/s	DQ Read 233 DQ Write 289 DQ Mixed 112 126% 211 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 124%
Seagate Backup+ Desk 4TB 3,378 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 3.5TB free Firmware: 040B Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	95.4% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 162 Mixed 155 122% 163 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.14 74% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 95.4% Great: 99%
Toshiba X300 4TB-$148 23,740 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2.5TB free Firmware: FP2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^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 4285 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 20 (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 100 100 177 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 20 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 2 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 10 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 102 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 158915297314 (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 200 253 1 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 100 100 44 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 541 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	75.3% Very good	Read 136 Write 127 Mixed 115 95% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 0.26 98% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 75.3% Great: 104%
Seagate ST3000DM003-1F216N 3TB 4,050 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC52 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 52813072 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 571 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 41970010 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 25421 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 235 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 91 91 9 (BE) vendor-specific 72 49 471531548 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 143 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 54 54 93503 (C2) HDA temperature 28 51 73014444060 (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 123909806502154 (F1) Unknown 100 253 21554720943 (F2) Unknown 100 253 23055010934	69.7% Good	Read 128 Write 116 Mixed 118 91% 120 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 0.85 4K Mixed 0.2 58% 0.51 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 69.7% Great: 99%
WD Green 2TB (2009)-$113 12,948 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 814GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 197 134 7150 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1285 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 43 43 41859 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 562 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 128 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1151 (C2) HDA temperature 118 94 34 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 35 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 19 (C8) Write error rate 200 183 0	47.2% Average	Read 85.4 Write 79 Mixed 70.4 59% 78.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.31 77% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 47.2% Great: 60%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 40,596 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	86.4% Excellent	MC Read 31.4 MC Write 32.4 MC Mixed 26.9 86% 30.2 GB/s	SC Read 22 SC Write 25.4 SC Mixed 27.6 72% 25 GB/s	Latency 47.1 85% 47.1 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 85%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97-AR - $140

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	560x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	323x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	95x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	183x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	86x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	67x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	54x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	36x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	56x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	55x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	38x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $788

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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