Asus Z97-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 63% Destroyer	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 53% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	73.7% 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-AR (all builds)
Memory	11.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Apr 04 '17 at 23:21
Run Duration	256 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing above expectations (71^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% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	84% Excellent	Memory 86.5 1-Core 133 2-Core 257 88% 159 Pts	4-Core 441 8-Core 620 67% 530 Pts	64-Core 691 43% 691 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.66 Performing below potential (23^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	73.7% Very good	Lighting 94.3 Reflection 100 Parallax 103 77% 99.2 fps	MRender 86.6 Gravity 90.2 Splatting 74.1 68% 83.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 73.7% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Jmicron Generic DISK00 8TB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 12% 6TB free Firmware: 0103 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	17.5% Very poor	Read 145 Write 150 Mixed 90.9 29% 128 MB/s	4K Read 1.33 4K Write 10.2 4K Mixed 0.65 8% 4.07 MB/s	DQ Read 1.27 DQ Write 9.89 DQ Mixed 0.67 2% 3.94 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 17.5% Great: 17%
Seagate Backup+ Desk 5TB 1,926 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 4TB free Firmware: 0511 Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	16.4% Very poor	Read 151 Write 133 Mixed 96.8 28% 127 MB/s	4K Read 1.18 4K Write 9.57 4K Mixed 0.63 8% 3.79 MB/s	DQ Read 2.96 DQ Write 0.79 DQ Mixed 0.75 1% 1.5 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 16.4% Great: 18%
OCZ Trion 100 960GB-$310 1,128 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 392GB free Firmware: SAFM11.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2350 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 208 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2995 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 199 199 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 23 (C2) HDA temperature 68 48 223339348000	67.2% Good	Read 491 Write 246 Mixed 181 67% 306 MB/s	4K Read 29.9 4K Write 53.4 4K Mixed 7.63 83% 30.3 MB/s	DQ Read 248 DQ Write 170 DQ Mixed 24.8 68% 148 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 67.2% Great: 89%
OCZ Vertex 460 480GB-$244 390 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 351GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 2 2 2 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 13630 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 967 (AB) Unknown 80 80 158992720 (AE) Unknown 100 100 96 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 2 (D0) Spin buzz 100 100 156 (D2) Unknown 100 100 179 (E0) Load friction 100 100 1 (E9) Unknown 95 95 95 (F1) Unknown 100 100 19527 (F2) Unknown 100 100 30478 (F9) Unknown 100 100 710845631	109% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 482 Mixed 492 110% 494 MB/s	4K Read 30.5 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 32.3 148% 58.8 MB/s	DQ Read 347 DQ Write 341 DQ Mixed 84.9 135% 258 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2TB free Firmware: CC3C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 138427192 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 11044 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 8222478 (09) Power-on hours count 41 11 51896 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1246 (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 73 59 521535515 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 103 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 12126 (C2) HDA temperature 27 41 55834574875 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 21 6 138427192 (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 -126873333915134 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1212012914 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1121486555	73.3% Very good	Read 120 Write 136 Mixed 106 90% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.17 4K Mixed 0.79 139% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 73.3% Great: 75%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 796GB free Firmware: CC3E Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 49895785 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 85 85 16284 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 51 51 566952541031 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 29289 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1616 (B7) Unknown 98 98 2 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 12885098504 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 55 538378267 (C2) HDA temperature 27 45 64424509467 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 22 20 49895785 (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 -18863496341528 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2966418487 (F2) Unknown 100 253 805955629	61.8% Good	Read 117 Write 98 Mixed 92.2 77% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.48 4K Mixed 0.51 116% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 61.8% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMX4GX3M1A1333C9 0215 CMX4GX3M1A1333C9 Kingston 9905403-558.A00LF 16GB 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	48.8% Average	MC Read 17 MC Write 17.4 MC Mixed 14.9 47% 16.4 GB/s	SC Read 13.6 SC Write 17.8 SC Mixed 16.2 45% 15.9 GB/s	Latency 70.9 56% 70.9 ns

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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	560x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	320x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	95x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	182x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	85x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	66x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	53x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 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	38x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $788

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