Asus Z97-A-USB31

Performance Results


Gaming 47% Yacht	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 40% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 84.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	50.7% 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)
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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A-USB31 (all builds)
Memory	27.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 25 '17 at 00:13
Run Duration	370 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.85 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	84.4% Excellent	Memory 93 1-Core 119 2-Core 238 85% 150 Pts	4-Core 409 8-Core 603 63% 506 Pts	64-Core 602 37% 602 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Device(0000 0000) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (76^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	50.7% Above average	Lighting 63.4 Reflection 63.7 Parallax 57.7 52% 61.6 fps	MRender 69.2 Gravity 59.2 Splatting 53.6 49% 60.7 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 50.7% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 1TB-$199 23,857 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 847GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6501 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1790 (B1) Unknown 98 98 22 (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 61 45 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 6 (EB) Unknown 99 99 993 (F1) Unknown 99 99 39576864723
Poor: 78% Great: 126%
OCZ RevoDrive 350 PCIe 960GB-$1,449 170 User benchmarks, average bench 155% 672GB free Firmware: 2.50 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 11237753 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 69303592294975 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1632 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 144 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 37 59 73018310693 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 11237753 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 11237753 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 11237753 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 29092 (EA) Unknown 0 0 16567 (F1) Unknown 0 0 16567 (F2) Unknown 0 0 23587	176% Outstanding	Read 1,678 Write 889 Mixed 880 253% 1,149 MB/s	4K Read 34.6 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 29.4 144% 55.6 MB/s	DQ Read 38.1 DQ Write 476 DQ Mixed 17.4 85% 177 MB/s
Poor: 107% ↑ This bench: 176% Great: 193%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$60 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 106 99 12266256 (03) Spinup time 95 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1983 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 5294111 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6843 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1600 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 1 17180196986 (BD) vendor-specific 91 91 9 (BE) vendor-specific 70 45 504889374 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 28 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 22477 (C2) HDA temperature 30 55 55834574878 (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 -21315922685610 (F1) Unknown 100 253 13783491635 (F2) Unknown 100 253 54869306722	95.2% Outstanding	Read 166 Write 166 Mixed 155 122% 162 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.24 74% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 95.2% Great: 113%
Seagate ST2000LM003 HN-M201RAD 2TB 50,772 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1.5TB free Firmware: 2BC10008 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 87 86 4123 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2236 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6819 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1610 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 2 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 58 206159347741 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 14 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 2 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 52372	66.3% Good	Read 111 Write 120 Mixed 113 86% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 2.33 4K Mixed 0.28 99% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 66.3% Great: 70%
Seagate Laptop SSHD 2.5" 1TB-$41 64,201 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 412GB free Firmware: SM15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 107 99 12867200 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2361 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2468062 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2299 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2349 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295163929 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 47 454623259 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 676 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 9583 (C2) HDA temperature 27 53 60129542171 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	44.7% Average	Read 63.6 Write 90.6 Mixed 79.7 59% 78 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 5.32 4K Mixed 0.55 188% 2.18 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 44.7% Great: 65%
SanDisk Cruzer Blade 16GB 60,539 User benchmarks, average bench 11% 15GB free, PID 5567 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	12.5% Very poor	Read 38.7 Write 6.28 Mixed 10.6 18% 18.6 MB/s	4K Read 4.01 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 1.08 102% 2.19 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 12.5% Great: 17%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1866C10D3/8G KHX1866C10D3/8G KHX1600C10D3/8G KHX1866C10D3/8G 32GB 38 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 1333, 1333, 1600, 1333 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	60.9% Good	MC Read 22.5 MC Write 21.8 MC Mixed 17.7 59% 20.7 GB/s	SC Read 16.5 SC Write 21.5 SC Mixed 22.1 57% 20 GB/s	Latency 62.2 64% 62.2 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 87%

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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	855x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	246x
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	128x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	81x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	93x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 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	67x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	46x

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Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16