Asus Z97-A

Performance Results


Gaming 124% UFO	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 104% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 92%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	138% 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	146% 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	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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A (all builds)
Memory	14.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 25 '17 at 18:54
Run Duration	196 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing above expectations (62^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92% Outstanding	Memory 94.1 1-Core 129 2-Core 263 90% 162 Pts	4-Core 486 8-Core 690 74% 588 Pts	64-Core 693 43% 693 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 92% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6593) CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	138% Outstanding	Lighting 194 Reflection 223 Parallax 191 158% 203 fps	MRender 139 Gravity 185 Splatting 138 125% 154 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 138% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Transcend TS480GSSD220S 480GB 5,978 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 250GB free Firmware: P0624AA Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 128 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 406 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 42 (A3) Unknown 100 100 599 (A4) Unknown 100 100 13085 (A5) Unknown 100 100 47 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 10 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 27 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 169 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 26496108199956 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 105191 (F2) Unknown 100 100 137716 (F5) Unknown 100 100 154566	78% Very good	Read 477 Write 244 Mixed 269 73% 330 MB/s	4K Read 29 4K Write 69.4 4K Mixed 24.7 112% 41 MB/s	DQ Read 285 DQ Write 182 DQ Mixed 46 85% 171 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 95%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 233GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9389 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2237 (B1) Unknown 94 94 67 (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 76 50 24 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 473 (F1) Unknown 99 99 32581443593	96.4% Outstanding	Read 492 Write 339 Mixed 358 88% 396 MB/s	4K Read 38.7 4K Write 88.2 4K Mixed 28.7 142% 51.9 MB/s	DQ Read 376 DQ Write 245 DQ Mixed 86.5 125% 236 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 96.4% Great: 118%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 190GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	146% Outstanding	Read 696 Write 532 Mixed 566 133% 598 MB/s	4K Read 52.8 4K Write 129 4K Mixed 49.5 212% 77 MB/s	DQ Read 579 DQ Write 412 DQ Mixed 213 236% 401 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 146% Great: 236%
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 112GB free Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 85 85 4313146 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 16707422795278 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 800 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 353 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 128 129 545469300864 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4313146 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4313146 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4313146 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 232 (EA) Unknown 0 0 179 (F1) Unknown 0 0 179 (F2) Unknown 0 0 345	72% Very good	Read 482 Write 126 Mixed 191 58% 267 MB/s	4K Read 30.8 4K Write 122 4K Mixed 17.7 134% 56.7 MB/s	DQ Read 158 DQ Write 141 DQ Mixed 47.4 63% 115 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 72% Great: 82%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 287GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 169 167 2508 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5880 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 9483 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2185 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 326 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5554 (C2) HDA temperature 110 95 33 (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	76.1% Very good	Read 135 Write 130 Mixed 129 99% 131 MB/s	4K Read 1.08 4K Write 2.34 4K Mixed 0.23 114% 1.22 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 28,220 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	61.2% Good	MC Read 21.6 MC Write 22 MC Mixed 18.2 59% 20.6 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 23.5 SC Mixed 20.5 58% 20.4 GB/s	Latency 59.7 67% 59.7 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 61.2% Great: 61%

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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	2,310x
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 $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