Asrock Z97 Extreme6

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 91.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	81.9% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	72.4% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z97 Extreme6 (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160517
Uptime	6.1 Days
Run Date	May 31 '17 at 06:01
Run Duration	196 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (67^th 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, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.9% Outstanding	Memory 97.7 1-Core 128 2-Core 242 89% 156 Pts	4-Core 464 8-Core 727 73% 595 Pts	64-Core 722 45% 722 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 91.9% Great: 87%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% ASRock(1849 0412) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4531 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 3% Great: 3%
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing below potential (74^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.9% Excellent	Lighting 104 Reflection 112 Parallax 109 85% 108 fps	MRender 92.8 Gravity 98.3 Splatting 88.4 76% 93.2 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 250GB 28,058 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 148GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4646 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 811 (B1) Unknown 99 99 18 (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 60 44 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 32 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8047757240	72.4% Very good	Read 492 Write 402 Mixed 416 97% 437 MB/s	4K Read 25.2 4K Write 49.6 4K Mixed 18.4 88% 31.1 MB/s	DQ Read 28.7 DQ Write 55.8 DQ Mixed 15.3 19% 33.3 MB/s
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 72.4% Great: 122%
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 42GB free Firmware: 526ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 10612542 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 -20074677128149 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2742 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 414 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 30 76 73019424798 (C2) HDA temperature 30 76 73019424798 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 10612542 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 10612542 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 10612542 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 17957 (EA) Unknown 0 0 10414 (F1) Unknown 0 0 10414 (F2) Unknown 0 0 14411	61% Good	Read 478 Write 200 Mixed 279 70% 319 MB/s	4K Read 21.5 4K Write 60.4 4K Mixed 12.2 80% 31.4 MB/s	DQ Read 112 DQ Write 181 DQ Mixed 11.2 46% 101 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 61% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 295GB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 89406872 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3939 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 8644887668 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13703 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2689 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 68 62 538443808 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 301 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 58 58 84368 (C2) HDA temperature 32 40 68719476768 (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 -100248831648030 (F1) Unknown 100 253 51510472234 (F2) Unknown 100 253 64053667309	106% Outstanding	Read 193 Write 177 Mixed 161 133% 177 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 1.31 4K Mixed 0.29 90% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB-$80 31,610 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 38GB free Firmware: 3.ADG Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 87 47817039 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4979 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 653454760 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 17298 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4397 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 42 17819041829 (C2) HDA temperature 37 58 73014444069 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 54 46 223195431 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	41.7% Average	Read 68.1 Write 77.1 Mixed 51.6 49% 65.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.05 4K Mixed 0.23 67% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 41.7% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 2133 C10 2x8GB 3,028 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2402 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	80.5% Excellent	MC Read 31.7 MC Write 29.9 MC Mixed 22.2 80% 27.9 GB/s	SC Read 20.4 SC Write 23.7 SC Mixed 26.5 67% 23.5 GB/s	Latency 47.3 84% 47.3 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 79%

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Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asrock Z97 Extreme6 - $220

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	555x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	146x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	77x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	127x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	77x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	54x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	38x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	31x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	25x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	25x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 51%, 21,220 samples	24x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	24x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $877

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 $184	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