Asrock Z97M Anniversary

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing CPU, SSD, RAM
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (91st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 9 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
Graphics	72.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

High background CPU (23%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

9 years ago, 9 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z97M Anniversary (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150312
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 11 '15 at 22:44
Run Duration	934 Seconds
Run User	NZL-User
Background CPU	23%

PC Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		1-Core 125 2-Core 251 85% 188 Pts	4-Core 432 8-Core 688 69% 560 Pts	64-Core 701 43% 701 Pts
Poor: 67% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Gigabyte(1458 3685) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 9.18.13.4788 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	72.1% Very good	Lighting 86.4 Reflection 83.7 Parallax 75.4 70% 81.8 fps	MRender 91.9 Gravity 93.7 Splatting 91.1 75% 92.2 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 3TB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 187 187 76677 (03) Spinup time 178 172 6091 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 803 (05) Reallocated sector count 195 195 152 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4450 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 663 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 56 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 182 182 56854 (C2) HDA temperature 130 107 20 (C4) Reallocation count 158 158 42 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 196 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 199 198 737 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 198 181 925	0.86% Terrible	Read 2.1 Write 0.8 Mixed 1.07 1% 1.32 MB/s	4K Read 0.004 4K Write 0.29 4K Mixed 0.002 6% 0.1 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 0.86% Great: 83%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 770GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 129205960 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 63 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 10244214 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 412 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 64 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 80 69 336461844 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 8 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1149 (C2) HDA temperature 20 40 60129542164 (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 -59090160057962 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2401396037 (F2) Unknown 100 253 85855687229	105% Outstanding	Read 195 Write 170 Mixed 162 132% 176 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.21 76% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 112%

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Gaming 9%

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Desktop 73%

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Workstation 8%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z97M Anniversary - $130

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	41x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	25x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	24x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	20x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	18x
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	13x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	8x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	8x
MX500 500GBCrucial $46Bench 106%, 237,241 samples	8x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	16x
KHX1600C10D3/8G Hynix 8G1600CL11 16GBKingstonBench 58%, 7 samples	6x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	6x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $602

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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