Asus H97-PLUS

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 89.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	84.9% 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	37.3% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Motherboard	Asus H97-PLUS (all builds)
Memory	9.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150520
Uptime	2.2 Days
Run Date	Nov 19 '17 at 21:26
Run Duration	182 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing above expectations (66^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 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.3% Excellent	Memory 95.9 1-Core 128 2-Core 256 90% 160 Pts	4-Core 446 8-Core 662 69% 554 Pts	64-Core 663 41% 663 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 89.3% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 854B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.49 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	84.9% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 113 Parallax 103 89% 109 fps	MRender 95.8 Gravity 98.1 Splatting 87.4 76% 93.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ RevoDrive 3 PCIe 120GB-$100 560 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 21GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	37.3% Below average	Read 366 Write 92.7 Mixed 110 41% 190 MB/s	4K Read 8.36 4K Write 29.8 4K Mixed 8.7 40% 15.6 MB/s	DQ Read 121 DQ Write 110 DQ Mixed 39.2 50% 90.2 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 37.3% Great: 69%
Crucial C300-CTFDDAC128M 128GB 288 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 17GB free Firmware: 0002 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 4096 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 32487 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2808 (AA) Unknown 100 100 8817 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 2 (AD) Unknown 81 81 972 (AE) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 10346576217704 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 164 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 3 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 81 81 19 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	56.8% Above average	Read 350 Write 136 Mixed 196 50% 227 MB/s	4K Read 29.5 4K Write 90.8 4K Mixed 4.3 98% 41.5 MB/s	DQ Read 221 DQ Write 125 DQ Mixed 16.2 54% 121 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 56.8% Great: 59%
Seagate ST3160815AS 160GB-$46 33,785 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 121GB free Firmware: 3.AA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 92 188868766 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3268 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 15 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 477856594 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 26883 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2011 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 802 (BE) vendor-specific 71 49 488374301 (C2) HDA temperature 29 51 64424509469 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 58 47 138011844 (C5) Current pending sector count 1 1 2048 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 1 1 2048 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 3 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	21.8% Poor	Read 37.3 Write 38.4 Mixed 40.2 29% 38.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.14 4K Mixed 0.39 86% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 21.8% Great: 42%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C8 4x4GB 1,004 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	62.5% Good	MC Read 22.3 MC Write 21.9 MC Mixed 18.9 60% 21 GB/s	SC Read 17 SC Write 22.9 SC Mixed 20.6 58% 20.2 GB/s	Latency 54.3 74% 54.3 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 62.5% Great: 70%

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Gaming 39%

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Desktop 78%

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Workstation 32%

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Motherboard: Asus H97-PLUS - $132

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	375x
Core i5-4590Intel $188Bench 63%, 151,366 samples	255x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	244x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	192x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	127x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	121x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	66x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	48x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	41x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	91x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	46x
Ballistix Sport DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCrucialBench 56%, 44,086 samples	35x

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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $567

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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