Benchmarking Results:
Below are some of the benchmarking results we achieved when testing our system. The Hi-Fi Z97WE remained stable throughout all of the tests without any problems. We choose the tests that we thought would be the most useful in terms of testing the Hi-Fi Z97WE’s stability and performance when pushing our system to it’s limits. As mentioned previously, we will not be able to show off any overclocking results due to the issues we had with our board.
3D Mark
3DMark pushes your graphics card and CPU to the limits. This is one of the best tests out there for pure CPU gaming performance, and is perfect for the gaming system that we are testing. For this this review we used the Fire Strike test, which is more than capable of showing us how well our computer handles getting thrown in the fire. The Hi-Fi Z97WE remained stable and allowed us to push our cpu to the limits. We scored in the top 11% of system’s ever tested, which is a very respectable result.
PCmark8
PCMark8 is another full system test, but focuses a little more on the CPU and memory portion of the system. With the Hi-Fi Z97WE we scored a 4172, which is higher than 89% of all systems ever tested. The stock results were very impressive and we saw very similar results when testing on our higher end boards.
PCmark7
PCMark7 much like PCmark8 is a full system test and includes more than 25 individual workloads combined into 7 separate tests to give different views of system performance. We scored a 6742 which we couldn’t be happier with.
SiSoft Sandra
With SiSoft Sandra, you’re able to test almost every component of your system. With the 4790K we pulled 145.2 GIPS and 96 GFLOPS at stock.. Even though the Hi-Fi Z97WE is a level entry board, our stock results are almost identical to the results we received when testing with other boards.
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