Asus Z97-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 47% Yacht	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 39% 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 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 79.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	56.1% 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	96.5% 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	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	3.4 Days
Run Date	Mar 10 '17 at 15:53
Run Duration	134 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

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 i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	79.1% Very good	Memory 88 1-Core 105 2-Core 214 77% 136 Pts	4-Core 379 8-Core 557 58% 468 Pts	64-Core 534 33% 534 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 79.1% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Gigabyte(1458 366F) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1519 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 378.66 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	56.1% Above average	Lighting 70.9 Reflection 71.8 Parallax 64.8 58% 69.2 fps	MRender 74.3 Gravity 65.4 Splatting 57.3 53% 65.7 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 56.1% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 114GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 245 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 28 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 69 65 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 4 (F1) Unknown 99 99 785236955	96.5% Outstanding	Read 505 Write 406 Mixed 414 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 44.4 4K Write 97.7 4K Mixed 26.1 152% 56.1 MB/s	DQ Read 46 DQ Write 265 DQ Mixed 26.5 58% 113 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 96.5% Great: 124%
Seagate FreeAgent 500GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 62GB free Firmware: 102D Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 168658264 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 110 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 3 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 50418292 (09) Power-on hours count 63 63 32458 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 110 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 87 87 13 (BE) vendor-specific 72 45 856817692 (C2) HDA temperature 28 55 55834574876 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 33 24 168658264 (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 -126345052924439 (F1) Unknown 100 253 261885803 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1281368563	25.2% Poor	Read 42.8 Write 44.8 Mixed 43 33% 43.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.44 4K Mixed 0.31 82% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 25.2% Great: 26%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9 1302 160C0 V3 Series 0215 CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9 1302 1600 CL9 Series 16GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 1867, 1600, 1867, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	49.5% Average	MC Read 16.9 MC Write 18.1 MC Mixed 15.1 48% 16.7 GB/s	SC Read 13 SC Write 18.2 SC Mixed 16.6 46% 15.9 GB/s	Latency 69.6 58% 69.6 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 49.5% Great: 50%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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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	568x
Core i5-4690KIntel $50Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	326x
Core i7-4790Intel $132Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	95x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	184x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	88x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	67x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	55x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	45x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $137Bench 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	39x

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