Asus Z97-WS

Performance Results


Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 49% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	65.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	66.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia 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	Asus Z97-WS (all builds)
Memory	26.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140707
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 02 '17 at 23:16
Run Duration	110 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing above expectations (69^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% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	82.2% Excellent	Memory 70.6 1-Core 124 2-Core 257 81% 150 Pts	4-Core 512 8-Core 684 76% 598 Pts	64-Core 683 42% 683 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 82.2% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Asus(1043 850A) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	65.7% Good	Lighting 83.2 Reflection 87.8 Parallax 77.1 68% 82.7 fps	MRender 82.3 Gravity 76.8 Splatting 69.4 62% 76.2 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 65.7% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX200 250GB-$134 26,364 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 1GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8489 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 137 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 98 98 83 (AE) Unknown 100 100 49 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2582 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 65 55 193274970147 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 98 98 2 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 9056218748 (F7) Unknown 100 100 283180134 (F8) Unknown 100 100 588678593	66.1% Good	Read 381 Write 247 Mixed 271 66% 300 MB/s	4K Read 27.1 4K Write 62.8 4K Mixed 19.3 99% 36.4 MB/s	DQ Read 163 DQ Write 131 DQ Mixed 39.1 59% 111 MB/s
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 113%
Seagate Momentus Thin 7200 2.5" 320GB-$29 12,279 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 199GB free Firmware: 0004LVM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 1064 (03) Spinup time 99 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 11120 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 39902235 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 -120667106158061 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3711 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 3 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 55 521666590 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 15 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 230720 (C2) HDA temperature 30 45 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 53 47 1064 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 13804024891944 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (FA) Read error retry rate 1 1 12720 (FB) Unknown 100 1 2922 (FC) Unknown 100 100 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	52.7% Above average	Read 87.1 Write 96.6 Mixed 97 71% 93.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 0.84 4K Mixed 0.68 120% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 52.7% Great: 64%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C9D3/8G KHX1600C9D3/8GX KHX1600C9D3/8G KHX1600C9D3/8GX 32GB 9 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	58.5% Above average	MC Read 21 MC Write 21.7 MC Mixed 18.2 58% 20.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 23.8 SC Mixed 20.7 59% 20.6 GB/s	Latency 100 40% 100 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 58.5% Great: 59%

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Gaming 97%

Nuclear submarine

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 81%

Aircraft carrier

Motherboard: Asus Z97-WS - $318

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	76x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	22x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	13x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	13x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	13x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	11x

SSD
MX500 1TBCrucial $66Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	6x
980 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 2TBSamsung $162Bench 416%, 138,083 samples	5x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	5x

RAM
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	6x
RipjawsX DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 54%, 8,026 samples	5x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	4x

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Value: 65% - Good

Total price: $1,217

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $177	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