Asus Z97-A-USB31

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 85.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	107% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	78.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A-USB31 (all builds)
Memory	11.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 27 '17 at 21:52
Run Duration	216 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770-$75 176,321 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	85.6% Excellent	Memory 90.5 1-Core 119 2-Core 236 84% 148 Pts	4-Core 435 8-Core 624 66% 530 Pts	64-Core 635 39% 635 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 78%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Asus(1043 8534) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 10.18.14.4264 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 3% Great: 3%
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3717) CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Lighting 141 Reflection 149 Parallax 132 114% 140 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 133 Splatting 108 96% 119 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 235GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 141 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 19 (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 62 48 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1 (F1) Unknown 99 99 696065670	116% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 400 Mixed 421 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 46.7 4K Write 94.9 4K Mixed 50.8 186% 64.1 MB/s	DQ Read 347 DQ Write 285 DQ Mixed 129 148% 254 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 134%
PNY CS2211 240GB-$90 1,866 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 41GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS221016 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2843 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 624 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 339 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3604605 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 85 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850919454 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 9939	78.3% Very good	Read 512 Write 197 Mixed 295 73% 335 MB/s	4K Read 32.3 4K Write 81.8 4K Mixed 14.2 110% 42.8 MB/s	DQ Read 328 DQ Write 316 DQ Mixed 52.4 113% 232 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 562GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 230922360 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1350 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 23986100 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5453 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1088 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 67 58 555745313 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 25 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 68 68 64302 (C2) HDA temperature 33 42 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 83708912602127 (F1) Unknown 100 253 11628880274 (F2) Unknown 100 253 368642380718	68.9% Good	Read 132 Write 108 Mixed 100 85% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 0.21 71% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 68.9% Great: 112%
Hitachi HUA722020ALA331 2TB 22,636 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 377GB free Firmware: JKAOA3FD Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 132 132 103 (03) Spinup time 119 119 51579322977 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1163 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 121 121 35 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 35860 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 976 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1193 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1193 (C2) HDA temperature 150 150 223339348008 (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	45.2% Average	Read 67.2 Write 90.1 Mixed 77.4 59% 78.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.24 4K Mixed 0.29 75% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 45.2% Great: 68%
WD My Book 1235 4TB 2,399 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 1.5TB free, PID 1235 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	49% Average	Read 128 Write 120 Mixed 114 154% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.31 4K Mixed 0.24 55% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 49% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8GBH2X04E99924-15- 0118 8GBH2X04E99927-15 16GB 20 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing below potential (22^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	51.1% Above average	MC Read 17.8 MC Write 18.5 MC Mixed 15.3 49% 17.2 GB/s	SC Read 14 SC Write 19.6 SC Mixed 15.9 47% 16.5 GB/s	Latency 66.5 60% 66.5 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 51.1% Great: 63%

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Gaming 42%

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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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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 $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