Asus Z97-A

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 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 67.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	106% 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	78.6% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 13 '17 at 04:03
Run Duration	137 Seconds
Run User	ARG-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing as expected (46^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	67.4% Good	Memory 62.9 1-Core 119 2-Core 229 74% 137 Pts	4-Core 387 8-Core 564 59% 476 Pts	64-Core 606 38% 606 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 67.4% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 36FE) CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2551 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	Lighting 140 Reflection 140 Parallax 133 114% 138 fps	MRender 110 Gravity 134 Splatting 108 95% 117 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$139 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 284GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4453 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 321 (B1) Unknown 99 99 12 (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 73 54 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 75 (F1) Unknown 99 99 22788393996	92.3% Outstanding	Read 481 Write 399 Mixed 409 96% 430 MB/s	4K Read 42 4K Write 87.6 4K Mixed 26.5 144% 52.1 MB/s	DQ Read 43.7 DQ Write 240 DQ Mixed 117 97% 133 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 92.3% Great: 133%
Crucial MX100 256GB-$116 55,768 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 139GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 12743 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1491 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 84 84 482 (AE) Unknown 100 100 395 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2159 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 72 47 227634118684 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 84 84 16 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 82818981624 (F7) Unknown 100 100 5128861757 (F8) Unknown 100 100 20793285893	78.6% Very good	Read 507 Write 331 Mixed 392 91% 410 MB/s	4K Read 28 4K Write 99.6 4K Mixed 19.3 120% 49 MB/s	DQ Read 28.8 DQ Write 112 DQ Mixed 19 30% 53.3 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 78.6% Great: 97%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 750GB-$60 30,974 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 101GB free Firmware: 1AA01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 99 0 (03) Spinup time 85 85 5510 (04) Start/Stop count 85 85 14835 (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 93 93 37742 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4103 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 99 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 10 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 5 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 51 437911578 (C2) HDA temperature 73 50 454688795 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 69545 (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 100 100 9 (C8) Write error rate 99 93 337 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	56.6% Above average	Read 99.3 Write 97.9 Mixed 102 75% 99.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.91 4K Mixed 0.37 105% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 56.6% Great: 60%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-2400C10-4GTX 0420 F3-2400C10-4GTX 0215 CMY8GX3M2A2400C11 0215 CMY8GX3M2A2400C11 16GB 17 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2400, 2400, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance (0^th percentile)	40.7% Average	MC Read 14.8 MC Write 16.3 MC Mixed 13.6 43% 14.9 GB/s	SC Read 8 SC Write 12.5 SC Mixed 8.8 28% 9.77 GB/s	Latency 120 34% 120 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 40.7% Great: 78%

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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	2,301x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,182x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	419x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	787x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	340x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	307x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	270x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	201x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	136x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	247x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	150x
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 $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