Asus Z97-A

Performance Results


Gaming 64% Destroyer	Desktop 80% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 52% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	84.3% 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	55.9% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (20%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A (all builds)
Memory	25 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Feb 21 '17 at 17:28
Run Duration	204 Seconds
Run User	FIN-User
Background CPU	20%

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PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	75.6% Very good	Memory 87.9 1-Core 101 2-Core 202 75% 130 Pts	4-Core 348 8-Core 462 51% 405 Pts	64-Core 462 29% 462 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 75.6% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.66 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	84.3% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 115 Parallax 98.1 86% 106 fps	MRender 94.7 Gravity 99 Splatting 99.4 80% 97.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 84.3% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 39GB free (System drive) Firmware: 608ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 39358626 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 87136296502405 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 214 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 49 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 30 47 85902426142 (C2) HDA temperature 30 47 85902426142 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 39358626 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 39358626 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 39358626 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 68719476736 (E9) Unknown 0 0 1948 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1612 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1612 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1807 (F4) Unknown 100 100 1900557	55.9% Above average	Read 424 Write 127 Mixed 174 52% 241 MB/s	4K Read 22.7 4K Write 60.3 4K Mixed 17.5 89% 33.5 MB/s	DQ Read 82.7 DQ Write 138 DQ Mixed 37.3 49% 86.1 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 55.9% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 703GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 82 63 185341624 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 777 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 34810866 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3142 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 487 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 68 61 555155488 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 784 (C2) HDA temperature 32 18 77309411360 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 3 1 185341624 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 89721866816481 (F1) Unknown 100 253 11762350024 (F2) Unknown 100 253 10347050975	96.8% Outstanding	Read 174 Write 163 Mixed 144 120% 161 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.32 98% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 96.8% Great: 112%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$50 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 513GB free Firmware: CC62 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 224261456 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1448 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 291945809 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10973 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1438 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 3 (BD) vendor-specific 74 74 26 (BE) vendor-specific 67 50 555221025 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 367 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5410 (C2) HDA temperature 33 50 55834574881 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 14139032349395 (F1) Unknown 100 253 62978734642 (F2) Unknown 100 253 72992501193	82% Excellent	Read 150 Write 134 Mixed 98.1 95% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 5.41 4K Mixed 0.79 220% 2.33 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 82% Great: 108%
Hitachi HTS545050A7E680 500GB 66,048 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 461GB free Firmware: GR2OA3E0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 214 214 60129542145 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 374 (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 100 100 368 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 182 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 5906 (C2) HDA temperature 222 222 201864708123 (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	57% Above average	Read 90.1 Write 109 Mixed 87.5 72% 95.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 0.19 69% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 57% Great: 58%
Seagate ST3500620AS 500GB-$145 5,462 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 392GB free Firmware: HP26 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 104325168 (03) Spinup time 94 86 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8497 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 5 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 34631951867 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 17075 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 7 (0C) Power cycle count 95 37 5370 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 7 (BD) vendor-specific 86 86 14 (BE) vendor-specific 67 59 555221025 (C2) HDA temperature 33 41 77309411361 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 34 25 104325168 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 5 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	58.3% Above average	Read 105 Write 98 Mixed 95.5 75% 99.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 0.94 4K Mixed 0.33 75% 0.59 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 58.3% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378B1G73QH0-CK0 4x8GB 1,052 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (11^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	50.5% Above average	MC Read 19 MC Write 18.2 MC Mixed 14.4 49% 17.2 GB/s	SC Read 14.2 SC Write 17.6 SC Mixed 15 45% 15.6 GB/s	Latency 69.7 57% 69.7 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 50.5% Great: 82%

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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	2,310x
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	791x
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 $94Bench 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 $300	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