Asus Z97-A-USB31

Performance Results


Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (30th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 70 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 82.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	5.77% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	137% 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.

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

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A-USB31 (all builds)
Memory	7.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 30 '17 at 01:45
Run Duration	172 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	82.3% Excellent	Memory 90.2 1-Core 116 2-Core 213 81% 140 Pts	4-Core 406 8-Core 556 61% 481 Pts	64-Core 610 38% 610 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT 19,550 User benchmarks, average bench 5% PNY(196E 0719) 512MB Ram: 512MB, Driver: 341.96 Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	5.77% Terrible	Lighting 7.7 Reflection 7.81 Parallax 2.56 6% 6.02 fps	MRender 6.86 Gravity 5.83 Splatting 5.22 5% 5.97 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 5.77% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 355GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	137% Outstanding	Read 766 Write 642 Mixed 705 157% 704 MB/s	4K Read 47 4K Write 120 4K Mixed 30.5 174% 65.8 MB/s	DQ Read 365 DQ Write 352 DQ Mixed 159 174% 292 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 137% Great: 283%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB 8,189 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 495GB free Firmware: CC96 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 179519808 (03) Spinup time 93 87 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7794 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 376667260 (09) Power-on hours count 49 49 44830 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1966 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 95 95 5 (BE) vendor-specific 65 50 589496355 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 266 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 7920 (C2) HDA temperature 35 50 64424509475 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 118 99 179519808 (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 48945447350025 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2961360865 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3320490230	44.5% Average	Read 90.6 Write 64.7 Mixed 64.8 55% 73.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 0.33 4K Mixed 0.13 46% 0.36 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 44.5% Great: 74%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 32GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 185 146 7750 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5373 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 41 41 43320 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1940 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 196 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 50 50 450086 (C2) HDA temperature 114 109 38 (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 200 178 18473 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	48% Average	Read 78.2 Write 89.3 Mixed 73.6 60% 80.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.14 4K Write 0.8 4K Mixed 0.2 43% 0.38 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 48% Great: 83%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 18GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 186 144 7691 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10224 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 41 41 43210 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1873 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 340 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 37 37 491724 (C2) HDA temperature 116 105 36 (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	32.8% Below average	Read 58.7 Write 55.5 Mixed 58.3 43% 57.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.18 4K Mixed 0.22 70% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 32.8% Great: 83%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 19,522 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB 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	32.6% Below average	MC Read 10.4 MC Write 10.8 MC Mixed 9.4 29% 10.2 GB/s	SC Read 10.2 SC Write 11.5 SC Mixed 10.6 31% 10.8 GB/s	Latency 67 60% 67 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 32.6% Great: 63%

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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-USB31

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	849x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	245x
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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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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