Asus Z97-A

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 83.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	95.7% 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	60.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140930
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Jan 18 '20 at 19:46
Run Duration	126 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	13%

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PC Performing above expectations (67^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	83.6% Excellent	Memory 86.3 1-Core 122 2-Core 250 85% 153 Pts	4-Core 436 8-Core 632 67% 534 Pts	64-Core 645 40% 645 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 83.6% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 5700-$275 75,918 User benchmarks, average bench 85% XFX(1682 5705) Ram: 8GB, Driver: 20.1.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.7% Outstanding	Lighting 114 Reflection 95.8 Parallax 226 93% 145 fps	MRender 108 Gravity 111 Splatting 143 101% 120 fps
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 95.7% Great: 91%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M4 128GB-$116 34,516 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 77GB free (System drive) Firmware: 070H SusWrite @10s intervals: 176 176 172 179 183 163 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	60.7% Good	Read 409 Write 186 Mixed 218 SusWrite 175 55% 247 MB/s	4K Read 22.3 4K Write 92.1 4K Mixed 12.9 99% 42.4 MB/s	DQ Read 126 DQ Write 109 DQ Mixed 29.1 46% 88 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 60.7% Great: 72%
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C 1TB-$40 97,793 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 456GB free Firmware: JP4OA3MA SusWrite @10s intervals: 128 123 129 127 129 127 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	61.3% Good	Read 86.5 Write 93.3 Mixed 49.5 SusWrite 127 65% 89.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.8 146% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 61.3% Great: 74%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GB 3,839 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1867 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (38^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	49.5% Average	MC Read 17.3 MC Write 17.7 MC Mixed 14.8 47% 16.6 GB/s	SC Read 14.1 SC Write 18.8 SC Mixed 16.7 47% 16.5 GB/s	Latency 71 56% 71 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 49.5% Great: 87%

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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	2,309x
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 $15	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