Asus Z97-A

Performance Results


Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: 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 90.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	58.5% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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 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.

High background CPU (26%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A (all builds)
Memory	29.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20140930
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 20 '17 at 20:13
Run Duration	192 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	26%

PC Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.5% Outstanding	Memory 94.4 1-Core 128 2-Core 253 89% 158 Pts	4-Core 475 8-Core 623 70% 549 Pts	64-Core 649 40% 649 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 90.5% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Gigabyte(1458 367A) CLim: 1519 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 378.66 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	58.5% Above average	Lighting 75 Reflection 73.4 Parallax 65 61% 71.1 fps	MRender 74.8 Gravity 66.9 Splatting 57.1 53% 66.2 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 58.5% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 121GB free Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 105 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 33 (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 64 58 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1 (F1) Unknown 99 99 397905271	127% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 498 Mixed 504 113% 506 MB/s	4K Read 45.2 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 54.7 197% 70.3 MB/s	DQ Read 357 DQ Write 329 DQ Mixed 136 159% 274 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 127% Great: 124%
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C 1TB-$40 97,793 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 772GB free Firmware: JP4OA3MA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 135 135 99 (03) Spinup time 122 122 25790120246 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2258 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 140 140 30 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3981 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1746 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 2259 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2259 (C2) HDA temperature 214 214 197569085468 (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 2	64.6% Good	Read 113 Write 113 Mixed 105 83% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.33 4K Mixed 0.35 85% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 64.6% Great: 74%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$32 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 677GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 168 2241 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 933 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2343 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 910 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 155 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 777 (C2) HDA temperature 115 101 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	90.5% Outstanding	Read 171 Write 144 Mixed 113 106% 143 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 2.83 4K Mixed 0.39 123% 1.29 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 90.5% Great: 109%
Hitachi HTS725025A9A364 250GB-$79 2,695 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 224GB free Firmware: PC2OC70E Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 238 238 73014444033 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 2840 (05) Reallocated sector count 94 94 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 5786 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2247 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 104 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 60201 (C2) HDA temperature 189 189 249108561949 (C4) Reallocation count 92 92 829 (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	36% Below average	Read 96.7 Write 28.6 Mixed 77.7 52% 67.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.21 4K Mixed 0.41 95% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 36% Great: 59%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$32 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 147GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 167 2275 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1466 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2275 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 892 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 150 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1315 (C2) HDA temperature 114 99 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	65.8% Good	Read 104 Write 125 Mixed 91.5 80% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.36 4K Mixed 0.31 111% 1.16 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 65.8% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 4x8GB 6,467 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	61.8% Good	MC Read 22 MC Write 22.1 MC Mixed 19 60% 21 GB/s	SC Read 16.7 SC Write 21.9 SC Mixed 19.7 56% 19.4 GB/s	Latency 58.7 68% 58.7 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 61.8% Great: 65%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-A - $150

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	2,317x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,194x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	420x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	794x
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	273x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	202x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	138x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	251x
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 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16