Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

Performance Results


Gaming 64% Destroyer	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 93.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	64.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	79.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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-PRO GAMER (all builds)
Memory	13.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160226
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 23 '17 at 08:02
Run Duration	238 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.1% Outstanding	Memory 96.2 1-Core 132 2-Core 266 92% 165 Pts	4-Core 520 8-Core 520 70% 520 Pts	64-Core 530 33% 530 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 93.1% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85AB) CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2037 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	64.6% Good	Lighting 81.5 Reflection 83.1 Parallax 70.7 66% 78.5 fps	MRender 72.5 Gravity 75.2 Splatting 75.2 61% 74.3 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 64.6% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$30 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 137GB free Firmware: Z32080RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 1014 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 601 (A5) Unknown 100 100 249121079461 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 34 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 57 52 206158430251 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 236223987767 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 200 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1546 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1247 (F2) Unknown 253 253 574 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	62.7% Good	Read 512 Write 197 Mixed 434 84% 381 MB/s	4K Read 23.5 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 5.35 98% 44.7 MB/s	DQ Read 24.6 DQ Write 118 DQ Mixed 3.63 22% 48.6 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 62.7% Great: 86%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$30 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 107GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 251 100 251 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1355 (A6) Unknown 100 100 5 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 22 (A9) Unknown 100 100 24 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 15 (AE) Unknown 100 100 254 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 100 171798691872 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3540 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2887 (F2) Unknown 253 253 4116	79.9% Very good	Read 499 Write 369 Mixed 427 96% 431 MB/s	4K Read 33.5 4K Write 126 4K Mixed 4.39 123% 54.7 MB/s	DQ Read 30.7 DQ Write 145 DQ Mixed 4.31 28% 59.8 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 79.9% Great: 86%
OCZ Trion 100 240GB-$95 9,561 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 85GB free Firmware: SAFM11.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2243 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1613 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 93274 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 200 200 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 308 (C2) HDA temperature 69 62 163209936927	62.4% Good	Read 498 Write 180 Mixed 211 65% 297 MB/s	4K Read 29.6 4K Write 59.2 4K Mixed 7.44 86% 32.1 MB/s	DQ Read 285 DQ Write 57.4 DQ Mixed 7.08 48% 117 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 62.4% Great: 83%
OCZ Agility 3 120GB-$102 38,562 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 72GB free Firmware: 2.22 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 10110353021776 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4160 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 1567 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 3307 (EA) Unknown 0 0 4681 (F1) Unknown 0 0 4681 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4593	45.5% Average	Read 186 Write 85.3 Mixed 105 28% 125 MB/s	4K Read 22.8 4K Write 95.1 4K Mixed 10.9 99% 42.9 MB/s	DQ Read 108 DQ Write 109 DQ Mixed 9.06 34% 75.3 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 45.5% Great: 61%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$40 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 616GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 172 2258 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 784 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1495 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 762 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 71 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 712 (C2) HDA temperature 117 110 26 (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	89.2% Excellent	Read 158 Write 152 Mixed 153 116% 154 MB/s	4K Read 1.28 4K Write 2.72 4K Mixed 0.36 144% 1.45 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 89.2% Great: 108%
WDC WD10 EZEX-08WN4A0 1TB 42 User benchmarks, average bench 19% 613GB free, PID 2338 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	23.4% Poor	Read 41.4 Write 37.7 Mixed 38.7 50% 39.3 MB/s	4K Read 1.21 4K Write 2.88 4K Mixed 0.34 114% 1.48 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 23.4% Great: 23%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 122,541 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	73.5% Very good	MC Read 25.9 MC Write 26.8 MC Mixed 23.6 73% 25.4 GB/s	SC Read 19.8 SC Write 24.7 SC Mixed 22.2 64% 22.2 GB/s	Latency 53.2 75% 53.2 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 73.5% Great: 72%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

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Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,408x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	547x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	295x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	458x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	221x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	182x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	189x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	107x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	74x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	126x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	109x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	104x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $160	Nvidia RTX 4070 $515	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $29

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16