Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

Performance Results


Gaming 28% Raft	Desktop 46% Yacht	Workstation 26% Raft


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 relatively low single core score, this CPU can handle email, light web browsing and basic audio/video playback, but it will struggle to handle CPU intensive tasks. Finally, with a gaming score of 32.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	81.9% 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	79.6% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO GAMER (all builds)
Memory	10.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Feb 14 '21 at 18:24
Run Duration	138 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	100%

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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 i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	32.7% Below average	Memory 34.3 1-Core 50.2 2-Core 97 34% 60.5 Pts	4-Core 175 8-Core 204 25% 190 Pts	64-Core 414 26% 414 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 32.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$278 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 461.40 Performing below potential (73^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.9% Excellent	Lighting 102 Reflection 111 Parallax 101 84% 105 fps	MRender 90.9 Gravity 99.4 Splatting 97.4 79% 95.9 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial BX500 240GB-$27 142,801 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 163GB free (System drive) Firmware: M6CR013 SusWrite @10s intervals: 406 105 137 21 151 130 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	79.6% Very good	Read 434 Write 394 Mixed 371 SusWrite 158 76% 340 MB/s	4K Read 32.1 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 25.2 137% 54.2 MB/s	DQ Read 230 DQ Write 326 DQ Mixed 0.4 78% 185 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 79.6% Great: 92%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$72 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 827GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 84 83 85 84 85 84 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	47.6% Average	Read 81.7 Write 81.9 Mixed 47.7 SusWrite 84 54% 73.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.6 117% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 47.6% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 0215 CMZ8GX3M1A1600C9 0215 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 16GB 58 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	26.8% Poor	MC Read 9.7 MC Write 12 MC Mixed 9.7 30% 10.5 GB/s	SC Read 2.1 SC Write 7.4 SC Mixed 2.7 12% 4.07 GB/s	Latency 231 17% 231 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 26.8% Great: 58%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

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Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-PRO GAMER

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,418x
Core i5-4690KIntel $50Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	551x
Core i7-4790Intel $132Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	298x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	465x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	222x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	182x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	192x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	107x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	74x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	128x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	109x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	104x

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