Asus Z97-A

Performance Results


Gaming 69% Battle cruiser	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 88.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	76.5% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	115% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A (all builds)
Memory	11 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit färger, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit färger,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	1.5 Days
Run Date	Jan 21 '18 at 10:23
Run Duration	236 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (55^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 0.8 GHz, turbo 4.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.1% Excellent	Memory 94.3 1-Core 132 2-Core 252 90% 159 Pts	4-Core 442 8-Core 667 69% 554 Pts	64-Core 682 42% 682 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 88.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing below potential (43^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	76.5% Very good	Lighting 94.7 Reflection 94.8 Parallax 84.2 77% 91.2 fps	MRender 92.9 Gravity 95.9 Splatting 88.5 75% 92.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 76.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 250GB-$251 41,998 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 840GB free Firmware: DXT06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 35661 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 723 (B1) Unknown 89 89 126 (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 68 38 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 190 (F1) Unknown 99 99 35750086276	10.9% Very poor	Read 108 Write 98.1 Mixed 87 22% 97.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.11 4K Mixed 0.48 2% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 10.9% Great: 85%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 59GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 15293 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 448 (B1) Unknown 96 96 64 (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 58 37 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 65 (EB) Unknown 99 99 74 (F1) Unknown 99 99 38700616252	115% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 403 Mixed 415 98% 443 MB/s	4K Read 45.4 4K Write 93 4K Mixed 48.8 181% 62.4 MB/s	DQ Read 361 DQ Write 279 DQ Mixed 122 145% 254 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 134%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 840GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 31261398 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1118 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 4304941101 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 27311 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 618 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 12885098703 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 42 1765837635619 (C2) HDA temperature 35 58 73014444067 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 26 19 31261398 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 199 289 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -26345329365760 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1497910106 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3760039248	61.4% Good	Read 103 Write 111 Mixed 84.8 75% 99.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.27 4K Mixed 0.46 101% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 68%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 503GB free Firmware: 05.00K05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 221 7225 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3024 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 21 21 57756 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1058 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 398 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3023 (C2) HDA temperature 112 88 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 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	47.9% Average	Read 90.1 Write 76.4 Mixed 79.9 62% 82.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.48 113% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 47.9% Great: 76%
WD WD2500KS-00MJB0 250GB-$78 8,440 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 62GB free Firmware: 02.01C03 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 199 181 5025 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4930 (05) Reallocated sector count 196 196 26 (07) Seek error rate 200 198 0 (09) Power-on hours count 12 12 64371 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1535 (BE) vendor-specific 56 28 44 (C2) HDA temperature 106 78 44 (C4) Reallocation count 199 199 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 4070 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	27.1% Poor	Read 46.7 Write 47.3 Mixed 39.8 34% 44.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.36 4K Mixed 0.28 76% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 27.1% Great: 35%
WD My Passport 0741 2TB 1,643 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 1.5TB free, PID 0741 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	21.2% Poor	Read 43.1 Write 42.8 Mixed 34.3 51% 40.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.79 4K Mixed 0.2 70% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 21.2% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GB 48,796 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	61.1% Good	MC Read 21.5 MC Write 21.7 MC Mixed 18.7 59% 20.6 GB/s	SC Read 15.9 SC Write 23.4 SC Mixed 20.9 57% 20.1 GB/s	Latency 59.1 68% 59.1 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 61.1% Great: 63%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97-A - $150

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	2,309x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,185x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	420x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	790x
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 $109Bench 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 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	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