Asus Z97-A

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 63% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 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 82.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	95.8% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	126% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A (all builds)
Memory	29.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140930
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 09 '20 at 14:01
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4670-$51 49,019 User benchmarks, average bench 66% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	82.6% Excellent	Memory 91 1-Core 110 2-Core 220 80% 140 Pts	4-Core 430 8-Core 432 58% 431 Pts	64-Core 429 26% 429 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 82.6% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 5700-$275 75,918 User benchmarks, average bench 85% AMD(1002 0B36) Ram: 8GB, Driver: 19.12.2 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.8% Outstanding	Lighting 120 Reflection 99.5 Parallax 218 97% 146 fps	MRender 99 Gravity 103 Splatting 129 92% 111 fps
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 95.8% Great: 91%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Ct1000mx 50 1TB 2,171 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 332GB free (System drive) Firmware: M3CR SusWrite @10s intervals: 403 441 443 455 419 418 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	126% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 463 Mixed 420 SusWrite 430 102% 456 MB/s	4K Read 41 4K Write 135 4K Mixed 61.9 213% 79.2 MB/s	DQ Read 312 DQ Write 255 DQ Mixed 267 204% 278 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 126% Great: 115%
Intel Raid 1 Volume 2TB 7,767 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 1TB free Firmware: 1.0. SusWrite @10s intervals: 41 37 42 42 39 37 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	38.6% Below average	Read 94.8 Write 98 Mixed 39.5 SusWrite 39.6 50% 68 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 0.5 4K Mixed 0.6 113% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 38.6% Great: 123%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Team Team-Elite-1600 4x8GB 334 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1632 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	62.6% Good	MC Read 23.2 MC Write 23.8 MC Mixed 18.8 63% 21.9 GB/s	SC Read 15.7 SC Write 19.8 SC Mixed 19 52% 18.2 GB/s	Latency 65.8 61% 65.8 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 62.6% Great: 63%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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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 - $150

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	2,313x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,192x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	420x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	793x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	342x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	309x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	272x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	202x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $75Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	138x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	250x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	152x
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 $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
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 $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16