Asrock Z97 Extreme4/3.1

Performance Results


Gaming 96% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 80% Aircraft carrier


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 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 97.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	96.1% 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	120% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 Extreme4/3.1 (all builds)
Memory	14.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160524
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 03 '17 at 17:00
Run Duration	242 Seconds
Run User	AUT-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 i7-4790K-$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)	97.7% Outstanding	Memory 98.1 1-Core 136 2-Core 265 94% 166 Pts	4-Core 529 8-Core 730 79% 630 Pts	64-Core 731 45% 731 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 97.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 1B81) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2126 MHz, MLim: 2109 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96.1% Outstanding	Lighting 122 Reflection 126 Parallax 107 100% 118 fps	MRender 106 Gravity 111 Splatting 111 90% 109 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 96.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 233GB free Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 951 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 440 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 66 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 27 (F1) Unknown 99 99 641771501	68.1% Good	Read 371 Write 303 Mixed 311 73% 328 MB/s	4K Read 35.5 4K Write 68.6 4K Mixed 18.1 113% 40.7 MB/s	DQ Read 29.5 DQ Write 52.3 DQ Mixed 118 68% 66.5 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 68.1% Great: 124%
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 196GB free Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9342 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 4757 (B1) Unknown 98 98 57 (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 76 58 24 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 171 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11207152555	87.6% Excellent	Read 496 Write 437 Mixed 506 107% 480 MB/s	4K Read 30.7 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 19.8 133% 55.1 MB/s	DQ Read 28.5 DQ Write 88.6 DQ Mixed 20.4 27% 45.8 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 87.6% Great: 116%
Samsung SM951 AHCI PCIe M.2 256GB-$223 7,621 User benchmarks, average bench 175% 187GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW2500Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3776 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1924 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 98 98 54 (AE) Unknown 99 99 43 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 996 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 67 51 33 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 13832 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4472 (F2) Unknown 99 99 8684	120% Outstanding	Read 791 Write 673 Mixed 750 165% 738 MB/s	4K Read 39.3 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 22.4 151% 59.9 MB/s	DQ Read 33.5 DQ Write 128 DQ Mixed 20.2 33% 60.5 MB/s
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 220%
Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB-$80 85,620 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2.5TB free Firmware: MX6OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 72 (03) Spinup time 141 141 34386674063 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 8240 (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 99 99 10794 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 4676 (C0) Power-off retract count 90 90 12698 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 12698 (C2) HDA temperature 193 193 210454183967 (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 61	84.2% Excellent	Read 153 Write 141 Mixed 146 110% 147 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.95 4K Mixed 0.21 89% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 84.2% Great: 107%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 884GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 171 2258 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8639 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 12121 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4989 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 378 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8260 (C2) HDA temperature 113 97 30 (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 67 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	85% Excellent	Read 151 Write 145 Mixed 149 112% 148 MB/s	4K Read 1.17 4K Write 2.56 4K Mixed 0.34 134% 1.36 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 85% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GB 24,592 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	81.5% Excellent	MC Read 32.5 MC Write 29.7 MC Mixed 21.7 80% 28 GB/s	SC Read 23.2 SC Write 25.4 SC Mixed 26.4 71% 25 GB/s	Latency 45.7 88% 45.7 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 81.5% Great: 88%

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Gaming 65%

Destroyer

Desktop 86%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 54%

Yacht

Motherboard: Asrock Z97 Extreme4/3.1

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	20x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	12x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	4x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	10x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	10x
GTX 560 TiNvidia $188Bench 16%, 42,397 samples	3x

SSD
SX6000LNP 256GBAdataBench 168%, 9,539 samples	5x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	4x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	3x

RAM
1600 CL9 Series 2x8GBUnknownBench 55%, 7,092 samples	4x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 56%, 22,320 samples	3x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x8GBKingstonBench 57%, 3,744 samples	2x

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Value: 93% - Outstanding

Total price: $480

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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