Asrock Z97 Pro4

Performance Results


Gaming 49% Yacht	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 42% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 76.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	60.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	84% 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	Asrock Z97 Pro4 (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180307
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 23 '18 at 21:43
Run Duration	198 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	76.4% Very good	Memory 90.9 1-Core 114 2-Core 221 81% 142 Pts	4-Core 334 8-Core 590 56% 462 Pts	64-Core 588 36% 588 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Zotac(19DA 1438) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	60.6% Good	Lighting 76.1 Reflection 77.5 Parallax 67.2 62% 73.6 fps	MRender 70.7 Gravity 68 Splatting 72.5 58% 70.4 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 60.6% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Transcend SSD320 256GB-$419 137 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 61GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.0.6 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 108 20919188 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 -31860067390459 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4441 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 353 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 33 95 42955898913 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 20919188 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 20919188 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 20919188 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 24383 (EA) Unknown 0 0 14228 (F1) Unknown 0 0 14228 (F2) Unknown 0 0 13773	84% Excellent	Read 429 Write 288 Mixed 260 72% 326 MB/s	4K Read 32.8 4K Write 89.2 4K Mixed 23.8 127% 48.6 MB/s	DQ Read 289 DQ Write 239 DQ Mixed 56.6 99% 195 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 92%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$23 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 307GB free Firmware: 19.01H19 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 3313 (03) Spinup time 139 137 4016 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11653 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 14334 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4226 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1025 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 10627 (C2) HDA temperature 108 95 35 (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 142043 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	50.4% Above average	Read 87.7 Write 87.8 Mixed 89.1 67% 88.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.25 79% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 50.4% Great: 69%
Toshiba P300 2TB-$61 100,891 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 183GB free Firmware: MX4OACF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 69 (03) Spinup time 126 126 25789464876 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3283 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3933 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 870 (C0) Power-off retract count 96 96 5011 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 5011 (C2) HDA temperature 193 193 214749085727 (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 200 200 0	64.5% Good	Read 97.3 Write 128 Mixed 153 96% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.22 4K Write 0.8 4K Mixed 0.11 37% 0.38 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 64.5% Great: 108%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$23 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 73GB free Firmware: 18.01H18 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 140 138 3991 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 865 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 21871 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 833 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 60 538312733 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 161 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 704 (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	44.5% Average	Read 77.4 Write 77.4 Mixed 76.4 58% 77.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.38 94% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 44.5% Great: 69%
Lenovo USB Hard Drive 1TB 1,783 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 106GB free, PID 4533 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	32.1% Below average	Read 83.7 Write 88.9 Mixed 64.4 101% 79 MB/s	4K Read 0.08 4K Write 0.18 4K Mixed 0.08 9% 0.12 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 32.1% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905584-015.A00LF Micron 16JTF51264AZ-1G6M1 0112 78.B1GE3.4210C 16GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (30^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	56.9% Above average	MC Read 20.9 MC Write 20.8 MC Mixed 16.2 55% 19.3 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 20.8 SC Mixed 19.2 53% 18.5 GB/s	Latency 66 61% 66 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 56.9% Great: 59%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asrock Z97 Pro4 - $77

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	271x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	239x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	71x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	108x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	51x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	46x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	43x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	32x
MX500 500GBCrucial $53Bench 106%, 237,241 samples	23x

RAM
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	40x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	34x
Ballistix Sport DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCrucialBench 56%, 44,086 samples	26x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $725

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $500	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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