Asus Z97-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	112% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	56.2% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 (90%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-AR (all builds)
Memory	10.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140620
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 01 '17 at 17:40
Run Duration	145 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	90%

PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	75.7% Very good	Memory 93.2 1-Core 118 2-Core 244 85% 152 Pts	4-Core 315 8-Core 504 50% 409 Pts	64-Core 489 30% 489 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 75.7% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	112% Outstanding	Lighting 153 Reflection 176 Parallax 163 124% 164 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 138 Splatting 100 95% 118 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 13GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4010 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 904 (B1) Unknown 99 99 16 (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 70 48 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 38 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2286988199	115% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 413 Mixed 420 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 46.2 4K Write 99.6 4K Mixed 44.8 180% 63.5 MB/s	DQ Read 348 DQ Write 282 DQ Mixed 103 135% 245 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 124%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 0GB free (System drive) Firmware: 541ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 9803452 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 -28999619175669 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2163 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 544 (B1) Unknown 0 0 98 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 27 46 34362753051 (C2) HDA temperature 27 46 34362753051 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 9803452 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 9803452 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 9803452 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 10573 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9261 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9261 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11021	56.2% Above average	Read 443 Write 108 Mixed 156 51% 236 MB/s	4K Read 16.6 4K Write 100 4K Mixed 14.6 97% 43.8 MB/s	DQ Read 62.1 DQ Write 106 DQ Mixed 10.2 29% 59.5 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 56.2% Great: 73%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 2TB 13,609 User benchmarks, average bench 146% 230GB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	150% Outstanding	Read 294 Write 229 Mixed 187 176% 237 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 3.12 4K Mixed 0.49 143% 1.45 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 150% Great: 213%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR3 1600 4x4GB 473 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1632 MHz Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	55.9% Above average	MC Read 18.1 MC Write 21.5 MC Mixed 18 55% 19.2 GB/s	SC Read 13.5 SC Write 19.4 SC Mixed 16.3 47% 16.4 GB/s	Latency 61.7 65% 61.7 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 55.9% Great: 64%

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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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Typical Z97-AR Builds (Compare 1,170 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97-AR - $140

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	563x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	325x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	95x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	183x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	87x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	67x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	54x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	36x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	56x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	55x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	38x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $788

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16