Asus Z97-C

Performance Results


Gaming 11% Tree trunk	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 92.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	3.2% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	275% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 9 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-C (all builds)
Memory	11.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.8 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160310
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 14 '17 at 12:57
Run Duration	304 Seconds
Run User	IRL-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (55^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 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.7% Outstanding	Memory 95.3 1-Core 133 2-Core 263 92% 164 Pts	4-Core 487 8-Core 692 74% 589 Pts	64-Core 692 43% 692 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 92.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Asus(1043 8534) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 10.18.10.3960 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 3% Great: 3%
Nvidia GeForce GT 630 60,212 User benchmarks, average bench 4% Asus(1043 8491) 2GB CLim: 700 MHz, MLim: 400 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 353.82 Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	3.2% Terrible	Lighting 4.1 Reflection 4.77 Parallax 3.38 3% 4.08 fps	MRender 3.33 Gravity 4.47 Splatting 3.09 3% 3.63 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.2% Great: 5%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 750GB-$310 3,724 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 234GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8090 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2841 (B1) Unknown 98 98 19 (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 71 51 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 512 (F1) Unknown 99 99 31377404823	85.4% Excellent	Read 505 Write 344 Mixed 273 83% 374 MB/s	4K Read 40.3 4K Write 62.4 4K Mixed 24.1 125% 42.3 MB/s	DQ Read 229 DQ Write 98.8 DQ Mixed 74.8 79% 134 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 85.4% Great: 125%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 84GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	275% Outstanding	Read 2,461 Write 1,198 Mixed 1,301 363% 1,653 MB/s	4K Read 64 4K Write 173 4K Mixed 43.4 244% 93.4 MB/s	DQ Read 1,002 DQ Write 453 DQ Mixed 177 277% 544 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 275% Great: 236%
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 74GB free Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 542 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 223 (A5) Unknown 100 100 5832775 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 51 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3 (A9) Unknown 100 100 342 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 32 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 65 279173267483 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 85901180956 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 555 (EA) Unknown 100 100 729 (F1) Unknown 253 253 699 (F2) Unknown 253 253 495 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	54.3% Above average	Read 479 Write 165 Mixed 187 60% 277 MB/s	4K Read 29.9 4K Write 30.5 4K Mixed 10.7 75% 23.7 MB/s	DQ Read 125 DQ Write 32.4 DQ Mixed 24.2 32% 60.4 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 54.3% Great: 101%
OCZ CACHE-SYNAPSE 32GB 111 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 30GB free Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 -57526791954179 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1743 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 701 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (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 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 13384 (EA) Unknown 0 0 17341 (F1) Unknown 0 0 17341 (F2) Unknown 0 0 27418	41.1% Average	Read 202 Write 64.9 Mixed 88.3 26% 118 MB/s	4K Read 25.8 4K Write 62.6 4K Mixed 14.2 90% 34.2 MB/s	DQ Read 65.8 DQ Write 59.1 DQ Mixed 21.7 27% 48.9 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 41.1% Great: 50%
WD My Book 1130 1TB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 390GB free Firmware: 1016 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	41.5% Average	Read 79.4 Write 65 Mixed 61.8 52% 68.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.14 76% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 41.5% Great: 42%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GB 1,755 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1800 MHz Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	67% Good	MC Read 23.6 MC Write 24.3 MC Mixed 21 66% 23 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 23.8 SC Mixed 20.9 59% 20.8 GB/s	Latency 56.3 71% 56.3 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 67% Great: 73%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97-C - $256

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	243x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	172x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	85x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	76x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	51x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	49x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	33x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	24x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	21x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	40x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	30x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 58%, 8,730 samples	25x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $898

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $500	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16