Asus Z97-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 95% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 81% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (44th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 56 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 80.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	120% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	30% 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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

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Motherboard	Asus Z97-AR (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 10 '17 at 17:25
Run Duration	175 Seconds
Run User	EST-User
Background CPU	24%

PC Performing as expected (44^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	80.9% Excellent	Memory 86.2 1-Core 121 2-Core 248 84% 152 Pts	4-Core 407 8-Core 639 64% 523 Pts	64-Core 661 41% 661 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 80.9% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6393) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.59 Performing below potential (30^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	120% Outstanding	Lighting 167 Reflection 172 Parallax 162 136% 167 fps	MRender 107 Gravity 157 Splatting 111 101% 125 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 132GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q 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 9144 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1354 (B1) Unknown 99 99 12 (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 62 54 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 31 (F1) Unknown 99 99 27591185138	105% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 402 Mixed 417 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 42.4 4K Write 86.4 4K Mixed 34.7 154% 54.5 MB/s	DQ Read 341 DQ Write 261 DQ Mixed 136 147% 246 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 133%
Kingston SSDNow UV400 120GB-$35 80,916 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 60GB free Firmware: 0C3J96R9 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd 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 56 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4 (64) Unknown 100 100 90928 (65) Unknown 100 100 15920 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 2 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 53 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 590 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 36 100 163210199076 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 173 (EA) Unknown 100 100 93 (F1) Unknown 100 100 151 (F2) Unknown 100 100 72 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0	63.5% Good	Read 468 Write 192 Mixed 215 64% 292 MB/s	4K Read 30.4 4K Write 44.1 4K Mixed 12 85% 28.8 MB/s	DQ Read 275 DQ Write 120 DQ Mixed 24.6 64% 140 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 63.5% Great: 82%
Samsung PM810 2.5" 7mm 128GB 4,365 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 30GB free (System drive) Firmware: AXM76D1Q Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 16672 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2713 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 75 75 756 (B2) Unknown 79 79 418 (B3) Unknown 79 79 834 (B4) Unknown 79 79 3198 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (E8) Unknown 79 79 1598 (F1) Unknown 17 17 3589432282 (F2) Unknown 14 14 3695383632	30% Poor	Read 185 Write 165 Mixed 112 34% 154 MB/s	4K Read 10.8 4K Write 23.8 4K Mixed 4.28 34% 13 MB/s	DQ Read 98.5 DQ Write 21.5 DQ Mixed 6.45 19% 42.2 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 30% Great: 50%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 60GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 199 199 19489 (03) Spinup time 176 175 4158 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7904 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 22504 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3011 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 76 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7827 (C2) HDA temperature 108 101 39 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 90 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 73 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 80	69.1% Good	Read 145 Write 95.4 Mixed 108 87% 116 MB/s	4K Read 1.05 4K Write 1.82 4K Mixed 0.28 109% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 69.1% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 2,600 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	50.4% Above average	MC Read 17.8 MC Write 18.3 MC Mixed 16 50% 17.4 GB/s	SC Read 13.1 SC Write 17.2 SC Mixed 14.2 42% 14.8 GB/s	Latency 71.1 56% 71.1 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 50.4% Great: 74%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97-AR - $140

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	561x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	323x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	95x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	183x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	86x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	67x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	54x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	36x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	56x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	55x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	38x

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Total price: $788

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 $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