Asus Z97-K

Performance Results


Gaming 15% Surfboard	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 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 83.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	14.8% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	70.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-K (all builds)
Memory	4 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140423
Uptime	2.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 09 '18 at 10:25
Run Duration	155 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (48^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770-$75 176,321 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.75 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	83.4% Excellent	Memory 91.8 1-Core 113 2-Core 219 81% 141 Pts	4-Core 405 8-Core 579 62% 492 Pts	64-Core 586 36% 586 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 83.4% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 650-Ti-$152 36,698 User benchmarks, average bench 14% Asus(1043 842A) 1GB CLim: 928 MHz, MLim: 1350 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	14.8% Very poor	Lighting 17.7 Reflection 16.2 Parallax 21.5 14% 18.5 fps	MRender 21.8 Gravity 21.5 Splatting 15.3 16% 19.5 fps
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 14.8% Great: 15%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M500 240GB-$54 31,779 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 98GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^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 2686 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3498 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 97 97 111 (AE) Unknown 100 100 25 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4066 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 77 53 201863462935 (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 1 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 97 97 3 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 21436032961 (F7) Unknown 100 100 677629031 (F8) Unknown 100 100 1053376863	70.8% Very good	Read 480 Write 263 Mixed 343 80% 362 MB/s	4K Read 17.9 4K Write 65.5 4K Mixed 15.4 82% 32.9 MB/s	DQ Read 300 DQ Write 219 DQ Mixed 13.5 77% 177 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 91%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 1TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 167 5966 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8616 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5721 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3506 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 27 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 178 178 68718 (C2) HDA temperature 128 114 22 (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	56.1% Above average	Read 98.9 Write 96.3 Mixed 88 71% 94.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.96 4K Mixed 0.22 88% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 56.1% Great: 84%
Seagate Barracuda Green 1.5TB-$130 20,479 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 451GB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 3056 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10661 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 115099138 (09) Power-on hours count 43 43 50008 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6836 (B7) Unknown 1 1 1720 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 1086643962607 (BD) vendor-specific 89 89 11 (BE) vendor-specific 77 53 437321751 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 69 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 14376 (C2) HDA temperature 23 47 68719476759 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 23 10 3056 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 197 6 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -32869384706692 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3883000713 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2314806032	47.5% Average	Read 96.5 Write 69.2 Mixed 80.4 62% 82.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 0.78 4K Mixed 0.55 97% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 47.5% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 47,852 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	33.1% Below average	MC Read 11.3 MC Write 10.6 MC Mixed 8.7 29% 10.2 GB/s	SC Read 10.9 SC Write 12.1 SC Mixed 11.3 33% 11.4 GB/s	Latency 64.4 62% 64.4 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 33.1% Great: 62%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97-K - $147

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	877x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	663x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	498x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	332x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	200x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	167x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	95x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	72x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	71x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	148x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	133x
CT102464BA160B.C16 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 11,058 samples	44x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $795

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