Asus Z97-A

Performance Results


Gaming 34% Sail boat	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 30% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 91.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	30.2% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	115% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A (all builds)
Memory	4.7 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140620
Uptime	4 Days
Run Date	Jul 21 '16 at 08:55
Run Duration	254 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing as expected (59^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, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.9% Outstanding	Memory 97.6 1-Core 130 2-Core 268 92% 165 Pts	4-Core 464 8-Core 692 72% 578 Pts	64-Core 700 43% 700 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 91.9% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 270X-$199 77,943 User benchmarks, average bench 27% Sapphire(174B E271) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 16.150.2211.0 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	30.2% Below average	Lighting 38.4 Reflection 34.5 Parallax 46 31% 39.6 fps	MRender 30.4 Gravity 31.9 Splatting 39.1 28% 33.8 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 30.2% Great: 29%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 96GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q 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 98 98 5162 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 87 (B1) Unknown 98 98 26 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 58 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 63 (EB) Unknown 99 99 25 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12777364025	115% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 408 Mixed 417 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 47 4K Write 93.6 4K Mixed 47.5 182% 62.7 MB/s	DQ Read 345 DQ Write 280 DQ Mixed 108 137% 244 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 124%
WD Green 1.5TB (2009)-$150 16,916 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 863GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 142 138 9891 (04) Start/Stop count 82 82 18051 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 27 27 53441 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 816 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 145 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 17899 (C2) HDA temperature 126 101 26 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 3 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 3 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 96 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	35.7% Below average	Read 69.7 Write 54.3 Mixed 54.9 45% 59.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.34 87% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 35.7% Great: 55%
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C 1TB-$40 97,793 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 338GB free Firmware: JP4OA3EA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 94 94 65561 (02) Throughput performance 137 137 91 (03) Spinup time 119 119 25790644543 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2679 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 9 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 144 144 28 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 42092 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 779 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 2978 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 2978 (C2) HDA temperature 214 214 236223922204 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 9 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	40.9% Average	Read 70.3 Write 72 Mixed 64.3 52% 68.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.24 4K Mixed 0.4 96% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 40.9% Great: 74%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 175GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 142161666 (03) Spinup time 95 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 37 37 65535 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 29 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 10929205 (09) Power-on hours count 65 65 30841 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 63 37 38780 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 125 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590131203 (BD) vendor-specific 94 94 6 (BE) vendor-specific 71 50 504692765 (C2) HDA temperature 29 50 4294967325 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 48 3 142161666 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 99 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 99 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 25258702703786 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2519489392 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3918681392	54.6% Above average	Read 101 Write 89.4 Mixed 96.4 72% 95.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.39 96% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 54.6% Great: 68%
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 546,982 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 110GB free Firmware: JB0OA3J0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 114 114 103079215106 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 4075 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 9797 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 515 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 25 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 41604 (C2) HDA temperature 214 214 257699020828 (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 200 200 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	51.5% Above average	Read 90.4 Write 89.1 Mixed 92.1 68% 90.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.15 4K Mixed 0.17 65% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 51.5% Great: 75%
Hitachi HTS 545025A7E380 250GB 18 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 102GB free Firmware: 0109 Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	44.1% Average	Read 86.4 Write 67.2 Mixed 71.2 56% 74.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.33 4K Mixed 0.2 70% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 44.1% Great: 61%
WD WD3000HLHX-01JJPV0 300GB 3,057 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 61GB free Firmware: 04.05G04 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 212 210 2366 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5299 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 9287 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2459 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 63 471072795 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 145 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5153 (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	62% Good	Read 98.4 Write 117 Mixed 106 81% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 3.01 4K Mixed 0.68 163% 1.49 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 62% Great: 79%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x4GB 3,657 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	79.3% Very good	MC Read 30.4 MC Write 29.1 MC Mixed 23.3 79% 27.6 GB/s	SC Read 20.2 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 23.4 65% 22.6 GB/s	Latency 47.7 84% 47.7 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 79.3% Great: 83%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-A - $150

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	2,309x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,185x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	420x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	790x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	342x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	307x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	271x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	202x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	137x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	248x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	151x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	120x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $798

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $15	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) $37	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