Asus Z97-A-USB31

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 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 82.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	119% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (36%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A-USB31 (all builds)
Memory	28.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 01 '16 at 21:52
Run Duration	720 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	36%

PC Performing as expected (42^nd 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 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	82.2% Excellent	Memory 91.3 1-Core 119 2-Core 234 84% 148 Pts	4-Core 394 8-Core 636 63% 515 Pts	64-Core 634 39% 634 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 82.2% Great: 80%

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. 20.19.15.4331 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 3% Great: 3%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung SM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$31 9,202 User benchmarks, average bench 183% 170GB free (System drive) Firmware: 300Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	119% Outstanding	Read 734 Write 627 Mixed 703 154% 688 MB/s	4K Read 45.7 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 26.1 164% 62.7 MB/s	DQ Read 42.1 DQ Write 139 DQ Mixed 28.7 40% 69.8 MB/s
Poor: 119% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 243%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 152GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 18 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 34 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 65 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 13 (F1) Unknown 99 99 229113618	114% Outstanding	Read 502 Write 409 Mixed 414 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 44.2 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 46.2 180% 64.2 MB/s	DQ Read 377 DQ Write 253 DQ Mixed 124 144% 251 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 124%
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB-$150 34,842 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 6GB free Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6929 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2873 (B1) Unknown 70 70 1069 (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 74 45 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 144 (F1) Unknown 99 99 40542414354	90.7% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 386 Mixed 433 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 32 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 24.4 139% 56.1 MB/s	DQ Read 33.2 DQ Write 238 DQ Mixed 62.4 70% 111 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 90.7% Great: 110%
WD Blue 2.5" 500GB-$21 80,932 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 62GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 2552 (03) Spinup time 152 147 1383 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6552 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4585 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1061 (BF) G-sense error rate 1 1 186 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 244 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 11921 (C2) HDA temperature 120 98 23 (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	39.9% Below average	Read 69.7 Write 69.3 Mixed 60 50% 66.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.22 74% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 39.9% Great: 61%
Toshiba MK2035GSS 200GB-$285 1,108 User benchmarks, average bench 16% 6GB free Firmware: DK020M Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1193 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 18501 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 6 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 43 43 23062 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 8257 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 301 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 119218 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 253403398171 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 6 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 126 (DE) Loaded hours 78 78 9123 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 305 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	12% Very poor	Read 19.1 Write 22.4 Mixed 19.6 15% 20.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 0.84 4K Mixed 0.21 52% 0.45 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 12% Great: 21%
Hitachi HTS545025B9A300 250GB 8,875 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 1GB free Firmware: PB2OC64G Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 85 85 8585338 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 202 202 64424509441 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 11631 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 107 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 10641 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2694 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 204210335 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 86399 (C2) HDA temperature 177 177 197568954399 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 119 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	7.98% Terrible	Read 0.26 Write 27.6 Mixed 32 16% 20 MB/s	4K Read 0.06 4K Write 0.009 4K Mixed 0.29 35% 0.12 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 7.98% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 4x8GB 8,984 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (35^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	56.5% Above average	MC Read 20.4 MC Write 20 MC Mixed 17.1 55% 19.2 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 20.1 SC Mixed 19.1 52% 18.2 GB/s	Latency 65.2 61% 65.2 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 56.5% Great: 63%

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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-A-USB31

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	850x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	246x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	125x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	205x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	127x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	80x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	93x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	90x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	39x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	69x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	65x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	46x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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