Asus GRYPHON Z97 ARMOR EDITION

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 23% Surfboard	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 18% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	27.2% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 2 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus GRYPHON Z97 ARMOR EDITION (all builds)
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140429
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	Aug 15 '21 at 21:24
Run Duration	103 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4440-$128 81,111 User benchmarks, average bench 61% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.1 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	77.7% Very good	Memory 92.1 1-Core 98.2 2-Core 191 75% 127 Pts	4-Core 367 8-Core 369 49% 368 Pts	64-Core 364 22% 364 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 77.7% Great: 70%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 950-$100 111,509 User benchmarks, average bench 26% Asus(1043 8554) CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1652 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 452.06 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	27.2% Poor	Lighting 33.6 Reflection 40.3 Parallax 32.5 27% 35.5 fps	MRender 35.6 Gravity 33.5 Splatting 30.4 27% 33.2 fps
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 27.2% Great: 28%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 2TB (2015)-$78 253,816 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 693GB free (System drive) Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 58 71 61 60 67 73 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	44.7% Average	Read 90.3 Write 87 Mixed 48.8 SusWrite 65 53% 72.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.7 154% 1.27 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 44.7% Great: 84%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 77,652 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	62.2% Good	MC Read 22.4 MC Write 23.1 MC Mixed 19.9 62% 21.8 GB/s	SC Read 15.6 SC Write 17.5 SC Mixed 19.7 50% 17.6 GB/s	Latency 63.9 63% 63.9 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 62.2% Great: 63%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 97%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 81%

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Motherboard: Asus GRYPHON Z97 ARMOR EDITION

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	105x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	35x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	34x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	25x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	16x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	16x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	13x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	12x
S3 500G 500GBSandiskBench 92%, 12,292 samples	12x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	10x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	7x
Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 54%, 12,350 samples	7x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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) $30	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