Asus Z97I-PLUS

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 36% Jet ski	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 28% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (96th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 4 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	38.5% 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)
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus Z97I-PLUS (all builds)
Memory	5.2 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150407
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 18 '16 at 02:00
Run Duration	111 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690T 681 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2.5 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	83% Excellent	Memory 97.5 1-Core 102 2-Core 204 79% 134 Pts	4-Core 395 8-Core 405 53% 400 Pts	64-Core 407 25% 407 Pts
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 83% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% PNY(196E 1138) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6881 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	38.5% Below average	Lighting 49.9 Reflection 48.4 Parallax 43.4 41% 47.2 fps	MRender 43.3 Gravity 43.3 Splatting 39.5 34% 42 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 38.5% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 68GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q 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 96 96 16556 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 473 (B1) Unknown 97 97 34 (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 61 49 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 140 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10973604242
Poor: 63% Great: 108%
WD WD10JPCX-24UE4T0 1TB 40,989 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 592GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 184 178 1758 (04) Start/Stop count 51 51 49219 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 9322 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 331 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 232 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 160 160 122027 (C2) HDA temperature 116 93 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (F0) Head flying hours 96 96 3614	56.8% Above average	Read 97.2 Write 101 Mixed 93.6 73% 97.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 1.86 4K Mixed 0.23 75% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 56.8% Great: 61%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 992093 (997093) 2x4GB 38 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2 of 2 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	88.6% Excellent	MC Read 32.5 MC Write 34.3 MC Mixed 29.3 92% 32 GB/s	SC Read 19.7 SC Write 19.2 SC Mixed 25.5 61% 21.5 GB/s	Latency 48 83% 48 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 88.6% Great: 89%

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Gaming 9%

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Desktop 72%

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Workstation 8%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97I-PLUS - $200

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	237x
Core i5-4690KIntel $50Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	107x
Core i7-4790Intel $132Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	51x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	67x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	64x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	40x

SSD
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	29x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	21x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	18x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	33x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	29x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	28x

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Value: 60% - Good

Total price: $663

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