Asrock Z97 Extreme4

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 87.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	91.4% 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	67% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Motherboard	Asrock Z97 Extreme4 (all builds)
Memory	14.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20160727
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 05 '16 at 00:26
Run Duration	384 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing as expected (58^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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	87.3% Excellent	Memory 92.6 1-Core 128 2-Core 256 89% 159 Pts	4-Core 442 8-Core 666 69% 554 Pts	64-Core 667 41% 667 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 21.21.13.7270 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.4% Outstanding	Lighting 117 Reflection 121 Parallax 103 95% 114 fps	MRender 99.7 Gravity 107 Splatting 101 84% 103 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Jmicron Generic DISK01 5TB 1.5TB free Firmware: 0103 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	16.5% Very poor	Read 113 Write 160 Mixed 90.7 27% 121 MB/s	4K Read 1.23 4K Write 8.65 4K Mixed 0.64 7% 3.51 MB/s	DQ Read 1.25 DQ Write 4.86 DQ Mixed 0.51 1% 2.21 MB/s

Jmicron Generic DISK03 5TB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 7% 872GB free Firmware: 0103 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	13.4% Very poor	Read 83.4 Write 134 Mixed 74 22% 97.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.98 4K Write 8.11 4K Mixed 0.53 6% 3.21 MB/s	DQ Read 0.67 DQ Write 3.96 DQ Mixed 0.51 1% 1.71 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 13.4% Great: 13%
Samsung 830 256GB-$261 25,763 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 43GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 24893 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 889 (B1) Unknown 97 97 87 (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 67 62 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 97 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12266264261	67% Good	Read 478 Write 214 Mixed 318 74% 337 MB/s	4K Read 18.3 4K Write 70.2 4K Mixed 19.8 90% 36.1 MB/s	DQ Read 280 DQ Write 68.7 DQ Mixed 62.2 75% 137 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 67% Great: 86%
Seagate Archive HDD 8TB (2015)-$120 2,225 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 2TB free Firmware: RT17 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 100 91227920 (03) Spinup time 91 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 73 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 24279767 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 575 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 11 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 12885098499 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 57 656146470 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1186 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2213 (C2) HDA temperature 38 43 85899345958 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 115 100 91227920 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 16488379449678 (F1) Unknown 100 253 18604304259 (F2) Unknown 100 253 7855101490	78.7% Very good	Read 164 Write 109 Mixed 76 86% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 7.03 4K Mixed 0.61 235% 2.84 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 78.7% Great: 87%
WD Green 2TB (2009)-$113 12,948 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 142 136 9875 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11425 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 32 32 49883 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 232 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 52 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 126 126 222515 (C2) HDA temperature 115 95 37 (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	59% Above average	Read 106 Write 100 Mixed 96.4 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.23 76% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 59% Great: 60%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$60 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 896GB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 210496184 (03) Spinup time 94 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4604 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 202063105 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 17297 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 181 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 55 572260385 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 34 34 133108 (C2) HDA temperature 33 45 64424509473 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 92105573666049 (F1) Unknown 100 253 29574832997 (F2) Unknown 100 253 586782938716	58.5% Above average	Read 106 Write 98 Mixed 106 78% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.13 61% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 58.5% Great: 96%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$60 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 533GB free Firmware: CC51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 195974632 (03) Spinup time 91 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 7155 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 52834172 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 27042 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 321 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 17180131332 (BD) vendor-specific 92 92 8 (BE) vendor-specific 64 45 605749284 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 67 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 25 25 150477 (C2) HDA temperature 36 55 51539607588 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -139380278685707 (F1) Unknown 100 253 40442315442 (F2) Unknown 100 253 164795106875	75.5% Very good	Read 149 Write 115 Mixed 89.8 88% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.03 4K Mixed 0.17 58% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 75.5% Great: 96%
Seagate Barracuda Desktop 5TB-$124 3,845 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 483GB free Firmware: CC49 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 100 161390384 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 68 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 52 163277089601 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1005 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 36 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 10 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 49 538705952 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 50 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5145 (C2) HDA temperature 32 51 85899345952 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 117 100 161390384 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 63724429771400 (F1) Unknown 100 253 28261862132 (F2) Unknown 100 253 39454750357	45.9% Average	Read 88.1 Write 69.5 Mixed 74.5 58% 77.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 7.58 4K Mixed 0.35 214% 2.92 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 45.9% Great: 90%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$60 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 180GB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 107647136 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5414 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 45077328 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 17332 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 181 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 54 521863199 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 7 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 30 30 141510 (C2) HDA temperature 31 46 64424509471 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 109762184219217 (F1) Unknown 100 253 23185231487 (F2) Unknown 100 253 77418762117	71.4% Very good	Read 126 Write 123 Mixed 124 94% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.19 64% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 71.4% Great: 96%
Jmicron Generic DISK00 5TB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 151GB free Firmware: 0103 Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	48.5% Average	Read 95.1 Write 72.3 Mixed 51.7 54% 73 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 5.98 4K Mixed 0.44 179% 2.29 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 48.5% Great: 77%
Jmicron Generic DISK02 5TB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 82GB free Firmware: 0103 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	66.2% Good	Read 109 Write 121 Mixed 93.3 81% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 5.34 4K Mixed 0.4 160% 2.04 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 66.2% Great: 66%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsZ DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 1,961 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	59.1% Above average	MC Read 21.8 MC Write 21.2 MC Mixed 16.6 57% 19.9 GB/s	SC Read 16.7 SC Write 22.7 SC Mixed 20.7 57% 20 GB/s	Latency 62.9 64% 62.9 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 59.1% Great: 96%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z97 Extreme4 - $129

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	475x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	288x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	99x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	156x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	78x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	66x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	55x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	38x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	36x

RAM
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	43x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	39x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	24x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $777

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	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 $175	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16