Asus Z97-A

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


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 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 93.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	84.1% 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	111% 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	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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A (all builds)
Memory	29 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.2 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	8.9 Days
Run Date	May 21 '16 at 15:08
Run Duration	170 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	2%

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 i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.7% Outstanding	Memory 92.1 1-Core 151 2-Core 299 99% 181 Pts	4-Core 517 8-Core 720 78% 618 Pts	64-Core 692 43% 692 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 93.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX Titan X-$615 15,621 User benchmarks, average bench 75% EVGA(3842 2990) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6191 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	84.1% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 113 Parallax 109 91% 111 fps	MRender 87.7 Gravity 95.6 Splatting 79.7 71% 87.7 fps
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 84.1% Great: 83%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 132GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8758 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1288 (B1) Unknown 99 99 36 (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 70 53 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 116 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11872786393	111% Outstanding	Read 528 Write 499 Mixed 422 108% 483 MB/s	4K Read 34.3 4K Write 88.4 4K Mixed 43.7 155% 55.5 MB/s	DQ Read 253 DQ Write 266 DQ Mixed 113 125% 211 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 124%
Kingston SSDNow V300 60GB-$76 24,219 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 47GB free Firmware: 521ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 -85744727086205 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1933 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 916 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 26 39 55837130778 (C2) HDA temperature 26 39 55837130778 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 1733 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2307 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2307 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2136
Poor: 27% Great: 69%
LSI MegaRAID 8708EM2 6TB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 2.5TB free Firmware: 1.40 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	90.4% Outstanding	Read 180 Write 134 Mixed 157 119% 157 MB/s	4K Read 3.24 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.62 230% 1.75 MB/s
Poor: 91% ↑ This bench: 90.4% Great: 95%
LSI MegaRAID 8708EM2 999GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 415GB free Firmware: 1.40 Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	26.9% Poor	Read 28.5 Write 63.7 Mixed 34.3 32% 42.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 4.63 4K Mixed 0.8 207% 2.07 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 26.9% Great: 60%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-052.A00LF 1315 CT102464BA160B.C16 99U5471-057.A00LF 32GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 1200, 1200, 1600, 1200 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	54.2% Above average	MC Read 19.1 MC Write 19.2 MC Mixed 15.7 52% 18 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 21 SC Mixed 19.2 54% 18.7 GB/s	Latency 63.8 63% 63.8 ns
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 54.2% Great: 53%

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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	2,315x
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 $79Bench 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 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16