Asus Z97-A

Performance Results


Gaming 95% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 84.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	110% 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	58.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
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	3.9 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 02 '17 at 13:29
Run Duration	157 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4670K-$62 128,482 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.75 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	84.6% Excellent	Memory 97.1 1-Core 110 2-Core 222 82% 143 Pts	4-Core 417 8-Core 424 56% 420 Pts	64-Core 393 24% 393 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 84.6% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3362) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.43 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	110% Outstanding	Lighting 145 Reflection 154 Parallax 145 118% 148 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 142 Splatting 111 100% 123 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Extreme II 240GB-$110 3,009 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 184GB free Firmware: R1311 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 244 100 244 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 70 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 30 (A8) Unknown 100 100 6 (A9) Unknown 100 100 339 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 10 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 78 30 128850133014 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 3 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 382 (F1) Unknown 253 253 294 (F2) Unknown 253 253 250 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	96.8% Outstanding	Read 464 Write 483 Mixed 448 104% 465 MB/s	4K Read 31.3 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 25.1 140% 56.9 MB/s	DQ Read 30 DQ Write 307 DQ Mixed 58.8 78% 132 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 96.8% Great: 109%
Crucial M4 128GB-$116 34,516 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 35GB free (System drive) Firmware: 040H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^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 8579 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3683 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 95 95 179 (AE) Unknown 100 100 648 (B5) Unknown 100 100 11940061251520 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 105 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 95 95 5 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	58.8% Above average	Read 482 Write 184 Mixed 268 68% 311 MB/s	4K Read 20.1 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 4.63 90% 42.2 MB/s	DQ Read 53.4 DQ Write 103 DQ Mixed 4.61 24% 53.7 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 58.8% Great: 72%
Samsung HD321KJ 320GB-$42 12,070 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 24GB free Firmware: CP100-10 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 5696 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11596 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 28292 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5463 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BC) Unknown 253 253 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 55 30 (C2) HDA temperature 148 103 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 5066842 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 253 253 0	27.1% Poor	Read 42 Write 52.2 Mixed 43.4 34% 45.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.1 4K Write 0.99 4K Mixed 0.33 60% 0.47 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 27.1% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 2133 C9 2x4GB 3,671 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	79.3% Very good	MC Read 28 MC Write 30.2 MC Mixed 25.8 80% 28 GB/s	SC Read 20.1 SC Write 20.2 SC Mixed 24.3 62% 21.5 GB/s	Latency 50 80% 50 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 79.3% Great: 81%

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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	2,316x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,194x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	420x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	793x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	342x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	309x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	272x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	202x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	138x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	250x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	152x
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 $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16