Asus Z97-PRO (Wi-Fi ac)

Performance Results


Gaming 7% Tree trunk	Desktop 50% Yacht	Workstation 7% Tree trunk


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 an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 53.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	3.74% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	129% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (94%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-PRO (Wi-Fi ac) (all builds)
Memory	8.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151027
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 30 '17 at 19:25
Run Duration	241 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	94%

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 i7-4770-$75 176,321 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	53.7% Above average	Memory 66.6 1-Core 59.7 2-Core 95.9 47% 74.1 Pts	4-Core 221 8-Core 334 34% 277 Pts	64-Core 380 24% 380 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 53.7% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Asus(1043 8534) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4624 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	3.74% Terrible	Lighting 3.77 Reflection 6.65 Parallax 6.03 3% 5.48 fps	MRender 8.29 Gravity 2.27 Splatting 7.52 5% 6.02 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.74% Great: 3%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M4 512GB-$74 4,600 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 221GB free Firmware: 040H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 15808 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4264 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 216 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 94 94 194 (AE) Unknown 100 100 650 (B5) Unknown 100 100 23523595325913 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 148 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 106 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 94 94 6 (CE) Flying height 100 1 216	67.3% Good	Read 504 Write 252 Mixed 339 80% 365 MB/s	4K Read 22.7 4K Write 90.3 4K Mixed 9.39 94% 40.8 MB/s	DQ Read 121 DQ Write 113 DQ Mixed 11.5 38% 81.8 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 67.3% Great: 81%
Crucial MX100 256GB-$116 55,768 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 116GB free Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 13115 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2045 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 93 93 234 (AE) Unknown 100 100 335 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2159 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 67 52 206159216673 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 93 93 7 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 47061230881 (F7) Unknown 100 100 1490212265 (F8) Unknown 100 100 2352063581	91% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 329 Mixed 396 92% 413 MB/s	4K Read 29.2 4K Write 94.7 4K Mixed 31.9 135% 51.9 MB/s	DQ Read 170 DQ Write 253 DQ Mixed 48.9 83% 157 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 97%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 55GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	129% Outstanding	Read 761 Write 481 Mixed 723 146% 655 MB/s	4K Read 44.6 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 45.9 182% 65.3 MB/s	DQ Read 399 DQ Write 217 DQ Mixed 143 150% 253 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 129% Great: 243%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$50 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 660GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 220230136 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5725 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 63868724 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10731 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1618 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 262154 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 67 46 555548705 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 363 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 22959 (C2) HDA temperature 33 54 33 (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 27148488288993 (F1) Unknown 100 253 22244413113 (F2) Unknown 100 253 902256768536	84.1% Excellent	Read 155 Write 137 Mixed 111 100% 134 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 5.2 4K Mixed 0.55 176% 2.06 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 84.1% Great: 108%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 566GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 170 4150 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11025 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6966 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 7420 (C0) Power-off retract count 195 195 4064 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 176 176 73170 (C2) HDA temperature 118 100 29 (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	58.2% Above average	Read 104 Write 98.3 Mixed 93.6 74% 98.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.98 4K Mixed 0.18 81% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 58.2% Great: 84%
WD Elements 2TB 35,768 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 348GB free, PID 107c Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	44.5% Average	Read 108 Write 99.6 Mixed 80.4 120% 96 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 2.27 4K Mixed 0.21 87% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 44.5% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 992123R (997123R) 2x8GB 63 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 2400 MHz clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (8^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	46.8% Average	MC Read 17.8 MC Write 18.5 MC Mixed 15.3 49% 17.2 GB/s	SC Read 9.3 SC Write 13.5 SC Mixed 10.4 32% 11.1 GB/s	Latency 110 36% 110 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 46.8% Great: 84%

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Gaming 43%

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Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-PRO (Wi-Fi ac)

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	583x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	129x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	83x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	139x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	55x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	52x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	41x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	36x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	29x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	48x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	31x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	28x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $688

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