Asus Z97-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (82nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 18 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 75.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	107% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-AR (all builds)
Memory	22.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140707
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Aug 06 '17 at 00:58
Run Duration	158 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770-$75 176,321 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	75.9% Very good	Memory 90.4 1-Core 106 2-Core 205 77% 134 Pts	4-Core 333 8-Core 500 52% 417 Pts	64-Core 553 34% 553 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 75.9% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6386) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Lighting 138 Reflection 155 Parallax 146 112% 146 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 143 Splatting 113 101% 124 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 523GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5445 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 157 (B1) Unknown 99 99 9 (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 63 53 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 15 (F1) Unknown 99 99 17589099780
Poor: 80% Great: 133%
JMicron 250GB 65 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 121GB free Firmware: 0223 Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	69.7% Good	Read 417 Write 418 Mixed 419 94% 418 MB/s	4K Read 21.4 4K Write 35.9 4K Mixed 22.8 81% 26.7 MB/s	DQ Read 63.5 DQ Write 49.3 DQ Mixed 29.6 29% 47.5 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 69.7% Great: 82%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$109 43,695 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 824GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 24 (03) Spinup time 120 114 6958 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4837 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 20736 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3618 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 595 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 133 133 203742 (C2) HDA temperature 111 98 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	69.7% Good	Read 130 Write 113 Mixed 107 88% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 0.22 82% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 69.7% Great: 69%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 2TB 13,609 User benchmarks, average bench 146% 495GB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	208% Outstanding	Read 578 Write 146 Mixed 150 214% 292 MB/s	4K Read 1.85 4K Write 3.49 4K Mixed 0.86 238% 2.07 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 208% Great: 213%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10 0215 CMZ8GX3M1A1600C10 0215 CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10 0215 CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10 32GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	57.7% Above average	MC Read 20.5 MC Write 21.6 MC Mixed 17.8 57% 20 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 19.1 SC Mixed 18.4 49% 17.3 GB/s	Latency 66.7 60% 66.7 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 57.7% Great: 62%

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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	561x
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 $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