Asus Z97-A-USB31

Performance Results


Gaming 34% Sail boat	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 31% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	36.5% 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	85.2% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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.

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Motherboard	Asus Z97-A-USB31 (all builds)
Memory	23.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	13.9 Days
Run Date	Jan 04 '17 at 02:25
Run Duration	187 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	18%

PC Performing above expectations (69^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	83.2% Excellent	Memory 89.7 1-Core 135 2-Core 241 88% 155 Pts	4-Core 413 8-Core 698 68% 555 Pts	64-Core 696 43% 696 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 83.2% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 280X-$500 94,130 User benchmarks, average bench 35% Gigabyte(1458 3001) CLim: 1100 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 16.12.1 Performing below potential (74^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	36.5% Below average	Lighting 47.6 Reflection 31.7 Parallax 59.1 39% 46.1 fps	MRender 30.3 Gravity 46.3 Splatting 39.5 32% 38.7 fps
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 36.5% Great: 39%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandisk SD8SN8U1T001122 1TB 1,266 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 120GB free Firmware: X4120000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6193 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 114 (A5) Unknown 100 100 7667795 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 38 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3 (A9) Unknown 100 100 1265 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 94 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 72 64 274879152156 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 98785165335 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1406 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1602 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1543 (F2) Unknown 253 253 930 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	98.8% Outstanding	Read 503 Write 484 Mixed 462 108% 483 MB/s	4K Read 29.9 4K Write 67.3 4K Mixed 28.9 118% 42 MB/s	DQ Read 332 DQ Write 269 DQ Mixed 54.1 108% 219 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 98.8% Great: 101%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 25GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 1 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 25772 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 621 (B1) Unknown 76 76 288 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 1 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 46 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 467 (F1) Unknown 99 99 67884986349	85.2% Excellent	Read 486 Write 342 Mixed 329 85% 386 MB/s	4K Read 42.6 4K Write 83.3 4K Mixed 20.9 135% 48.9 MB/s	DQ Read 44.5 DQ Write 213 DQ Mixed 20.8 48% 92.7 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 85.2% Great: 108%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 931GB free Firmware: 2AR10002 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2173 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 89 82 3457 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2866 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 25673 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 888 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2236 (B5) Unknown 100 100 20210362 (B7) Unknown 252 252 0 (B8) Unknown 252 252 0 (BA) Unknown 252 252 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 1645 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (BE) vendor-specific 80 50 219044053012 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 108 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 1921778 (C2) HDA temperature 64 50 219044053012 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 3 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 12 (C8) Write error rate 1 1 61661	61% Good	Read 108 Write 105 Mixed 102 79% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.22 78% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 61% Great: 59%
Hitachi HDS721010CLA630 1TB 13,178 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 674GB free Firmware: JP4OA41A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 99 0 (02) Throughput performance 135 100 98 (03) Spinup time 142 100 25786908944 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1429 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 140 100 30 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 32358 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 645 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (B9) Unknown 100 100 65535 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 89 17301972 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 47 371195928 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1882 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1882 (C2) HDA temperature 250 113 227634249752 (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 200 199 10	56.7% Above average	Read 97.8 Write 100 Mixed 93.9 73% 97.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.3 74% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 56.7% Great: 76%
Hitachi HDS721010CLA632 1TB-$109 12,285 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 341GB free Firmware: JP4OA41A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 98 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 100 92 (03) Spinup time 148 100 25785008407 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2507 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 140 100 30 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 41328 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1054 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (B9) Unknown 100 100 65535 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 87 80937499 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 76 47 371195928 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 3022 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 3022 (C2) HDA temperature 250 113 227634380824 (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	66.4% Good	Read 119 Write 113 Mixed 106 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.32 77% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 66.4% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-2400C10-8GTX 1315 BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 0420 F3-2400C10-8GTX 1315 BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 32GB 11 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 2400, 1600, 2400, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	57% Above average	MC Read 20.5 MC Write 20.4 MC Mixed 18 56% 19.6 GB/s	SC Read 13.8 SC Write 21.3 SC Mixed 17.2 50% 17.4 GB/s	Latency 67.7 59% 67.7 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 57% Great: 60%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

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 $179	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