Asrock Z97 Extreme4

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 63% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 82.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	87.4% 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	124% 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.

Very high background CPU (33%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z97 Extreme4 (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151012
Uptime	5 Days
Run Date	Nov 04 '17 at 23:01
Run Duration	223 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	33%

PC Performing as expected (56^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	82.6% Excellent	Memory 86.7 1-Core 126 2-Core 242 85% 152 Pts	4-Core 423 8-Core 640 66% 531 Pts	64-Core 664 41% 664 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 82.6% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36DD) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1607 MHz, MLim: 1800 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	87.4% Excellent	Lighting 114 Reflection 117 Parallax 106 93% 112 fps	MRender 97.2 Gravity 102 Splatting 84.4 76% 94.4 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 120GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13514 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2502 (B1) Unknown 96 96 40 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 69 55 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 653 (F1) Unknown 99 99 18933777481	83.7% Excellent	Read 492 Write 229 Mixed 356 79% 359 MB/s	4K Read 38.5 4K Write 73.3 4K Mixed 25.2 129% 45.7 MB/s	DQ Read 317 DQ Write 214 DQ Mixed 85.1 112% 205 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 83.7% Great: 118%
Samsung SM951 AHCI PCIe M.2 256GB-$223 7,621 User benchmarks, average bench 175% 102GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW2500Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4550 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 794 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 97 97 79 (AE) Unknown 99 99 16 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 890 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 56 42 44 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 20224 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6009 (F2) Unknown 99 99 5178	124% Outstanding	Read 759 Write 666 Mixed 716 159% 714 MB/s	4K Read 34 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 24.7 137% 53.2 MB/s	DQ Read 307 DQ Write 276 DQ Mixed 24.7 92% 203 MB/s
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 124% Great: 220%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 36GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5770 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1011 (B1) Unknown 99 99 11 (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 67 56 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 14 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5868298785	107% Outstanding	Read 502 Write 410 Mixed 421 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 36.2 4K Write 93.4 4K Mixed 42.4 159% 57.4 MB/s	DQ Read 338 DQ Write 256 DQ Mixed 110 133% 235 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 124%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 459GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 266 (03) Spinup time 174 173 4283 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4063 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7357 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1380 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 48 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 175 175 76151 (C2) HDA temperature 115 108 32 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	68.8% Good	Read 132 Write 107 Mixed 115 89% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 2.23 4K Mixed 0.18 88% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 68.8% Great: 84%
WD Blue 500GB (2007)-$80 10,362 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 118GB free Firmware: 12.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 179 5950 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14781 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 65 65 26083 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5925 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1716 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 14979 (C2) HDA temperature 118 98 32 (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 9 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	35.4% Below average	Read 58.5 Write 64.7 Mixed 46 42% 56.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.32 4K Write 1.79 4K Mixed 0.32 82% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 35.4% Great: 51%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$64 143,477 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 108GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 141 134 3916 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6058 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 14746 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2686 (C0) Power-off retract count 196 196 3347 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 132 132 206697 (C2) HDA temperature 114 104 29 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	80.4% Excellent	Read 141 Write 140 Mixed 113 98% 131 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 2.29 4K Mixed 0.16 81% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GB 48,796 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	57.9% Above average	MC Read 19.5 MC Write 21.2 MC Mixed 19.3 57% 20 GB/s	SC Read 15 SC Write 21 SC Mixed 18.1 52% 18 GB/s	Latency 70.7 57% 70.7 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 57.9% Great: 63%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z97 Extreme4 - $129

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	474x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	287x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	99x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	155x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	78x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	66x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	55x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	38x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	36x

RAM
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	43x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	39x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	24x

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Total price: $777

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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