Asus GRYPHON Z97

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 60% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	82.6% 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	48.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus GRYPHON Z97 (all builds)
Memory	28.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141105
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 20 '18 at 02:39
Run Duration	143 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing above expectations (75^th 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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.8% Outstanding	Memory 94.2 1-Core 130 2-Core 257 90% 160 Pts	4-Core 503 8-Core 515 68% 509 Pts	64-Core 476 30% 476 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 90.8% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8598) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.6% Excellent	Lighting 104 Reflection 111 Parallax 94.4 84% 103 fps	MRender 95.3 Gravity 95.4 Splatting 98.3 79% 96.3 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 150GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2507 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 439 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 65 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 6 (EB) Unknown 99 99 6 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4383878638	113% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 413 Mixed 422 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 49.3 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 47.8 195% 69.6 MB/s	DQ Read 48.7 DQ Write 284 DQ Mixed 115 104% 149 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 99GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5625 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 983 (B1) Unknown 99 99 6 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 61 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 3 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6946407871	119% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 413 Mixed 421 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 49.2 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 47.1 194% 69.5 MB/s	DQ Read 348 DQ Write 284 DQ Mixed 104 136% 245 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 134%
OCZ AGILITY3 128GB 513 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 20GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 92 92 26943841 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 1417339214739 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1171 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 11 (B1) Unknown 0 0 16 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 26943841 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 26943841 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 26943841 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 0 0 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 15980 (EA) Unknown 0 0 13444 (F1) Unknown 0 0 13444 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7874	48.8% Average	Read 193 Write 102 Mixed 111 30% 135 MB/s	4K Read 19.3 4K Write 99.1 4K Mixed 16.4 103% 44.9 MB/s	DQ Read 117 DQ Write 107 DQ Mixed 11.8 36% 78.5 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 48.8% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GB 4,160 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1632 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	63.6% Good	MC Read 22 MC Write 22.9 MC Mixed 19.8 62% 21.6 GB/s	SC Read 17.8 SC Write 23.4 SC Mixed 21.5 60% 20.9 GB/s	Latency 59.4 67% 59.4 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 63.6% Great: 61%

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

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Gaming 65%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 55%

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Motherboard: Asus GRYPHON Z97 - $176

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	65x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	18x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	17x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	21x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	11x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	10x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	9x
840 Evo 500GBSamsung $150Bench 103%, 68,337 samples	8x
SSDNow V300 240GBKingston $35Bench 64%, 176,713 samples	7x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	6x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBCorsairBench 55%, 6,625 samples	5x
RipjawsX DDR3 2400 C11 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 68%, 1,661 samples	5x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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