Asus Z97-PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 59% Gunboat	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 92%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	60.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	57% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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	Asus Z97-PRO (all builds)
Memory	9.1 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colori
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151027
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 31 '18 at 00:42
Run Duration	175 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92% Outstanding	Memory 96.5 1-Core 129 2-Core 264 91% 163 Pts	4-Core 508 8-Core 490 67% 499 Pts	64-Core 513 32% 513 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 92% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% MSI(1462 3160) CLim: 1625 MHz, MLim: 1922 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	60.4% Good	Lighting 76.4 Reflection 78.1 Parallax 69.2 62% 74.6 fps	MRender 78.7 Gravity 71.1 Splatting 61.3 57% 70.4 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 60.4% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 3D 1TB-$100 16,039 User benchmarks, average bench 100% 710GB free Firmware: X61130WD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 617 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 24 (A5) Unknown 100 100 4849705 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 25 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 385 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 47 201864642587 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 34359738376 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 963 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1016 (F1) Unknown 253 253 990 (F2) Unknown 253 253 466 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	77.3% Very good	Read 485 Write 322 Mixed 341 85% 383 MB/s	4K Read 23.4 4K Write 36.2 4K Mixed 23.3 85% 27.7 MB/s	DQ Read 328 DQ Write 225 DQ Mixed 49.6 98% 201 MB/s
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 77.3% Great: 121%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 52GB free (System drive) Firmware: 600ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 8610400448 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 113971252181145 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 605 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 81 (B1) Unknown 0 0 98 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 27 37 55836999707 (C2) HDA temperature 27 37 55836999707 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 105 105 8610400448 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 105 105 8610400448 (CC) Soft ECC correction 105 105 8610400448 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 21690 (EA) Unknown 0 0 13748 (F1) Unknown 0 0 13748 (F2) Unknown 0 0 12049 (F4) Unknown 95 95 196739231	57% Above average	Read 408 Write 107 Mixed 152 48% 222 MB/s	4K Read 21 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 13.2 105% 46.7 MB/s	DQ Read 73.6 DQ Write 111 DQ Mixed 29.1 40% 71.3 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 57% Great: 73%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$31 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 189GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 179 173 2033 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1064 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7303 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 246 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 19 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 193 193 21832 (C2) HDA temperature 114 105 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	63.1% Good	Read 118 Write 102 Mixed 107 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.98 4K Mixed 0.26 91% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 63.1% Great: 109%
WD Blue 640GB (2008)-$33 94,563 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 124GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 163 160 4825 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2945 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 64 64 26978 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2331 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 182 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2935 (C2) HDA temperature 116 99 31 (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	53.7% Above average	Read 101 Write 85.9 Mixed 98.6 72% 95.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.4 98% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 53.7% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMX4GX3M2A1600C8 0215 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C8 0215 CMX4GX3M2A1600C8 0215 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C8 12GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 2048, 4096, 2048, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	65.8% Good	MC Read 22.5 MC Write 23.5 MC Mixed 20.7 64% 22.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 23.8 SC Mixed 20.9 60% 20.9 GB/s	Latency 52.2 77% 52.2 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 65.8% Great: 66%

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Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97-PRO - $215

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	330x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	81x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	68x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	71x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	45x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	34x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	21x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	18x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	17x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	22x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	19x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	15x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $857

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16