Asus Z97-E/USB 3.1

Performance Results


Gaming 60% Destroyer	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 50% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	79.3% 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	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 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-E/USB 3.1 (all builds)
Memory	10.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150520
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 20 '18 at 07:07
Run Duration	136 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	9%

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PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	74.6% Very good	Memory 84.7 1-Core 105 2-Core 191 74% 127 Pts	4-Core 350 8-Core 494 53% 422 Pts	64-Core 564 35% 564 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 85A0) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing below potential (50^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	79.3% Very good	Lighting 98.6 Reflection 110 Parallax 91.6 80% 100 fps	MRender 93.3 Gravity 92.3 Splatting 96.7 77% 94.1 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 79.3% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Black NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB (2017)-$135 28,136 User benchmarks, average bench 121% 213GB free Firmware: B35500WD Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	84.8% Excellent	Read 682 Write 396 Mixed 386 108% 488 MB/s	4K Read 36.6 4K Write 49.9 4K Mixed 17.2 104% 34.6 MB/s	DQ Read 36.6 DQ Write 101 DQ Mixed 36.5 37% 57.9 MB/s
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 84.8% Great: 144%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$51 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 194 194 3275 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 10 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 20 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 9 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 5 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 4 (C2) HDA temperature 110 102 37 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	106% Outstanding	Read 171 Write 196 Mixed 176 136% 181 MB/s	4K Read 1.06 4K Write 3.06 4K Mixed 0.56 163% 1.56 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 112%
WD WD5000LPVX-60V0TT0 2TB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 608GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 193741872 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 144 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 265583168 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8626 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 160 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 92 92 8 (BE) vendor-specific 64 47 706150436 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 89 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 166 (C2) HDA temperature 36 53 73014444068 (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 -85383949835575 (F1) Unknown 100 253 53578185923 (F2) Unknown 100 253 365042096799	82.2% Excellent	Read 122 Write 164 Mixed 146 108% 144 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 5.4 4K Mixed 0.6 192% 2.2 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 82.2% Great: 82%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 40,596 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (28^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	48.3% Average	MC Read 16.6 MC Write 17.7 MC Mixed 15.1 47% 16.5 GB/s	SC Read 11.9 SC Write 17.2 SC Mixed 15.1 42% 14.7 GB/s	Latency 72.3 55% 72.3 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 48.3% Great: 85%

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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-E/USB 3.1

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	254x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	106x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	68x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	65x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	57x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	38x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	32x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	30x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	24x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	63x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	14x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	13x

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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