Asus Z97-A

Performance Results


Gaming 55% Gunboat	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 48% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 92.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	53.1% 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	101% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A (all builds)
Memory	28.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Nov 15 '17 at 16:02
Run Duration	195 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (69^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.7% Outstanding	Memory 97.5 1-Core 138 2-Core 274 95% 170 Pts	4-Core 474 8-Core 729 74% 602 Pts	64-Core 732 45% 732 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 92.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% EVGA(3842 2974) CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	53.1% Above average	Lighting 66.6 Reflection 69.5 Parallax 62.1 54% 66 fps	MRender 72 Gravity 62.7 Splatting 55 51% 63.2 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 53.1% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 120GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7363 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1630 (B1) Unknown 97 97 52 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 54 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 44 (F1) Unknown 99 99 27691849085	101% Outstanding	Read 501 Write 404 Mixed 419 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 33.7 4K Write 78.7 4K Mixed 36.5 140% 49.6 MB/s	DQ Read 378 DQ Write 249 DQ Mixed 110 137% 246 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 3TB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 145628072 (03) Spinup time 90 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2243 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 60 57 30074547145 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7742 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1896 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 7 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 66 39 1697083818018 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 198 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 19064 (C2) HDA temperature 34 61 55834574882 (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 -19456201846056 (F1) Unknown 100 253 56657252634 (F2) Unknown 100 253 46993359624	61.4% Good	Read 102 Write 110 Mixed 80.3 73% 97.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 7.55 4K Mixed 0.61 239% 2.97 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 113%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 235 145 5233 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2526 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7672 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2136 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 216 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 193 193 23384 (C2) HDA temperature 119 99 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 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	71.4% Very good	Read 124 Write 124 Mixed 109 90% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 1.91 4K Mixed 0.24 96% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 71.4% Great: 83%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB-$230 19,674 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2.5TB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 120585872 (03) Spinup time 91 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1502 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2528268 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6382 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1516 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 65540 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 54 504692766 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 479 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6349 (C2) HDA temperature 30 46 60129542174 (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 115380001447418 (F1) Unknown 100 253 20502626231 (F2) Unknown 100 253 8314200583	74.2% Very good	Read 112 Write 145 Mixed 144 101% 134 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 5.36 4K Mixed 0.54 188% 2.19 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 74.2% Great: 94%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2TB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 110421544 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4392 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 4650002277 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 16930 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 4021 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 164 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 44 43521409058 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1344 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4539 (C2) HDA temperature 34 56 -140737488355294 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 27 10 110421544 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -102950366067898 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2146770161 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4204480558	74.3% Very good	Read 127 Write 132 Mixed 118 94% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.79 139% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 74.3% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 4x8GB 6,389 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2448 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	88.3% Excellent	MC Read 33.2 MC Write 32.7 MC Mixed 27.5 89% 31.1 GB/s	SC Read 21.4 SC Write 25.4 SC Mixed 28.6 72% 25.1 GB/s	Latency 48.4 83% 48.4 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 88.3% Great: 87%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-A - $150

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	2,310x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,186x
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