Asus Z97-A-USB31

Performance Results


Gaming 82% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	90.4% 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	210% 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A-USB31 (all builds)
Memory	8.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Mar 20 '18 at 21:58
Run Duration	235 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 0.8 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	85.7% Excellent	Memory 97.1 1-Core 132 2-Core 254 91% 161 Pts	4-Core 418 8-Core 491 59% 454 Pts	64-Core 493 30% 493 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 85.7% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Zotac(19DA 1396) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1607 MHz, MLim: 1805 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.24 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.4% Outstanding	Lighting 116 Reflection 106 Parallax 108 94% 110 fps	MRender 98.1 Gravity 107 Splatting 99.2 83% 101 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 2TB-$275 8,527 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 184GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6126 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 213 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (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 66 58 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 44 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15906476644	106% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 410 Mixed 421 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 43.4 4K Write 99.7 4K Mixed 32.3 160% 58.4 MB/s	DQ Read 319 DQ Write 266 DQ Mixed 170 160% 251 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 135%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 124GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	210% Outstanding	Read 2,097 Write 1,160 Mixed 1,178 326% 1,478 MB/s	4K Read 53.8 4K Write 122 4K Mixed 22.3 175% 66.1 MB/s	DQ Read 56.9 DQ Write 201 DQ Mixed 21.2 47% 93 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 210% Great: 236%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 40GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10682 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 263 (B1) Unknown 99 99 6 (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 56 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 58 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11866676366	108% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 399 Mixed 409 98% 439 MB/s	4K Read 45.7 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 47.4 183% 64.6 MB/s	DQ Read 47.5 DQ Write 262 DQ Mixed 119 102% 143 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 133%
Sony DSC 64GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 11% 1GB free, PID 07fd Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	12.6% Very poor	Read 22.6 Write 8.51 Mixed 11.8 16% 14.3 MB/s	4K Read 3.05 4K Write 2.18 4K Mixed 1.14 124% 2.12 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 12.6% Great: 13%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 40,596 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	84.7% Excellent	MC Read 29.7 MC Write 32.9 MC Mixed 28.2 86% 30.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 23.9 SC Mixed 24.2 63% 22 GB/s	Latency 49.8 80% 49.8 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 84.7% Great: 85%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

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