Asus Z97-A-USB31

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 91.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Boot Drive	118% 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, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A-USB31 (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 12 '18 at 23:19
Run Duration	227 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing as expected (59^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 4.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.4% Outstanding	Memory 96.7 1-Core 137 2-Core 274 94% 169 Pts	4-Core 464 8-Core 726 73% 595 Pts	64-Core 739 46% 739 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 91.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 150GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	118% Outstanding	Read 700 Write 531 Mixed 564 133% 598 MB/s	4K Read 46.8 4K Write 94.8 4K Mixed 19.7 146% 53.8 MB/s	DQ Read 410 DQ Write 308 DQ Mixed 147 167% 288 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 254%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 174 2241 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 129 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 109 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 23 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 4 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 266 (C2) HDA temperature 112 102 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	101% Outstanding	Read 178 Write 175 Mixed 161 129% 171 MB/s	4K Read 1.25 4K Write 2.45 4K Mixed 0.35 137% 1.35 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 109%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 154 2266 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3052 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3366 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 760 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 131 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5692 (C2) HDA temperature 107 99 36 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	100% Outstanding	Read 177 Write 173 Mixed 163 129% 171 MB/s	4K Read 1.22 4K Write 2.48 4K Mixed 0.36 137% 1.35 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 109%
Seagate FireCuda 2.5" 2TB-$79 71,106 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 1TB free Firmware: SDM1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 82 67 150103373 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 62 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 1852045 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -77979426226126 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 38 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 61 521601050 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 67 (C2) HDA temperature 26 40 73014444058 (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 -102739912687520 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1749243509 (F2) Unknown 100 253 109892071 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	52.7% Above average	Read 95 Write 88.8 Mixed 51.2 58% 78.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 0.61 4K Mixed 0.7 121% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 52.7% Great: 68%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 141GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 165 2241 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1745 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6598 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1582 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 383 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1361 (C2) HDA temperature 111 97 32 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	61.3% Good	Read 114 Write 99.8 Mixed 116 83% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 2.07 4K Mixed 0.23 84% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 61.3% Great: 108%
Generic MassStorageClass 32GB 1,212 User benchmarks, average bench 21% 29GB free, PID 0749 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	14.3% Very poor	Read 42.7 Write 17.9 Mixed 14.6 27% 25 MB/s	4K Read 5.29 4K Write 0.98 4K Mixed 0.48 70% 2.25 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 14.3% Great: 37%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 2133 C10 2x8GB 3,028 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	77.6% Very good	MC Read 27.7 MC Write 28.7 MC Mixed 24.5 77% 27 GB/s	SC Read 19.5 SC Write 25.2 SC Mixed 24.9 66% 23.2 GB/s	Latency 51.5 78% 51.5 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 77.6% Great: 79%

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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	851x
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	127x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	80x

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	65x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	46x

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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