Asus Z97-A

Performance Results


Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 49% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way below expectations (4th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 96 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 66.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	82.9% 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	51.3% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 10 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.

Very high background CPU (42%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A (all builds)
Memory	20.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150427
Uptime	2.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 25 '19 at 02:36
Run Duration	140 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	42%

PC Performing way below expectations (4^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 below expectations (6^th percentile)	66.6% Good	Memory 68.2 1-Core 99.1 2-Core 194 67% 121 Pts	4-Core 350 8-Core 542 55% 446 Pts	64-Core 591 37% 591 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% Gigabyte(1458 3792) CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 418.91 Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.9% Excellent	Lighting 104 Reflection 126 Parallax 108 85% 113 fps	MRender 85.1 Gravity 109 Splatting 93.4 78% 95.8 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 82.9% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 830 256GB-$261 25,763 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 47GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXM0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 164 112 109 107 87 89 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	51.3% Above average	Read 352 Write 226 Mixed 183 SusWrite 111 48% 218 MB/s	4K Read 15.4 4K Write 48.1 4K Mixed 19 73% 27.5 MB/s	DQ Read 292 DQ Write 69.7 DQ Mixed 118 103% 160 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 51.3% Great: 86%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$40 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 286GB free Firmware: 01.0 Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Read 126 Mixed 82 79% 104 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 1.1 217% 1.53 MB/s
Poor: 50% Great: 108%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$40 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 295GB free Firmware: 01.0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 48 47 46 46 46 46 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	49.2% Average	Read 125 Write 48 Mixed 60.8 SusWrite 46.5 52% 70 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 0.7 4K Mixed 0.8 156% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 49.2% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CML16GX3M2A1600C10 1315 BLS8G3D169DS3.16FE 0215 CML16GX3M2A1600C10 1315 BLS8G3D169DS3.16FE 32GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	44% Average	MC Read 15.6 MC Write 17.1 MC Mixed 15.1 46% 15.9 GB/s	SC Read 9.3 SC Write 13.7 SC Mixed 10.2 32% 11.1 GB/s	Latency 106 38% 106 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 44% Great: 62%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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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	2,327x
Core i5-4690KIntel $50Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,198x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	421x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	796x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	344x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	310x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	274x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	202x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	139x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	252x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	154x
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 i5-12600K $174	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $251	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $44

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $28	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16