Asus GRYPHON Z97

Performance Results


Gaming 48% Yacht	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 38% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 71.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	65.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	109% 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.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus GRYPHON Z97 (all builds)
Memory	8.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140930
Uptime	3.2 Days
Run Date	Mar 14 '17 at 17:36
Run Duration	159 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690-$52 73,695 User benchmarks, average bench 67% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	71.5% Very good	Memory 83.2 1-Core 99.3 2-Core 195 72% 126 Pts	4-Core 347 8-Core 343 46% 345 Pts	64-Core 368 23% 368 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 71.5% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% MSI(1462 3282) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.66 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	65.1% Good	Lighting 82.7 Reflection 81 Parallax 75.2 67% 79.6 fps	MRender 69.2 Gravity 75.6 Splatting 76.5 61% 73.8 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 65.1% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 23GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 14514 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 102 (B1) Unknown 94 94 114 (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 62 50 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 51 (F1) Unknown 99 99 19579866403	109% Outstanding	Read 498 Write 397 Mixed 409 97% 435 MB/s	4K Read 41.3 4K Write 91.3 4K Mixed 43.6 167% 58.7 MB/s	DQ Read 362 DQ Write 273 DQ Mixed 108 138% 248 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 115%
WD Black 5TB (2015)-$71 7,245 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 955GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 100 0 (03) Spinup time 217 100 8116 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 10 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2473 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 10 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 100 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 100 6 (C2) HDA temperature 119 111 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 100 0	82.9% Excellent	Read 117 Write 171 Mixed 131 105% 140 MB/s	4K Read 3.28 4K Write 2.31 4K Mixed 0.3 213% 1.96 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 82.9% Great: 107%
Seagate ST33000651AS 3TB-$229 5,029 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 742GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 233628034 (03) Spinup time 91 89 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2088 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 8653330950 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 17590 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 139 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 38655295497 (BD) vendor-specific 82 82 18 (BE) vendor-specific 66 45 622788642 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 83 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2098 (C2) HDA temperature 34 55 73014444066 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 23 6 233628034 (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 106433584578354 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2867355044 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2863506577	63.9% Good	Read 119 Write 104 Mixed 117 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.47 111% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 63.9% Great: 86%
WD WD10EURX 1TB-$23 53,598 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 196GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 137 134 4150 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4255 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 60 60 29444 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 384 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 225 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4029 (C2) HDA temperature 116 93 27 (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	64.2% Good	Read 115 Write 109 Mixed 115 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.89 4K Mixed 0.19 70% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 64.2% Great: 87%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 10,150 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	46.3% Average	MC Read 15.4 MC Write 17 MC Mixed 14.8 45% 15.7 GB/s	SC Read 12.7 SC Write 15.7 SC Mixed 14.8 41% 14.4 GB/s	Latency 74.9 53% 74.9 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 46.3% Great: 63%

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

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Gaming 65%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 55%

Yacht

Motherboard: Asus GRYPHON Z97 - $176

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	65x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	18x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	17x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	21x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	11x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	10x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	9x
840 Evo 500GBSamsung $150Bench 103%, 68,337 samples	8x
SSDNow V300 240GBKingston $35Bench 64%, 176,713 samples	7x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	6x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBCorsairBench 55%, 6,625 samples	5x
RipjawsX DDR3 2400 C11 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 68%, 1,661 samples	5x

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Total price: $786

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	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