Asus Z97-A-USB31

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 92% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	109% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

4 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A-USB31 (all builds)
Memory	26.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1366 x 768 - 32 Bit colors, 1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 12 '20 at 01:55
Run Duration	104 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	6%

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PC Performing above expectations (69^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 way above expectations (98^th percentile)	87.6% Excellent	Memory 91.8 1-Core 116 2-Core 243 84% 150 Pts	4-Core 450 8-Core 651 69% 551 Pts	64-Core 644 40% 644 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 87.6% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 85AA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 445.87 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	109% Outstanding	Lighting 143 Reflection 152 Parallax 129 116% 141 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 141 Splatting 114 101% 124 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 110%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 41GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC43 SusWrite @10s intervals: 91 89 114 139 115 137 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile)	74.4% Very good	Read 146 Write 142 Mixed 75.7 SusWrite 114 87% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.8 146% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 74.4% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GB 71 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	59.5% Above average	MC Read 21.5 MC Write 21.9 MC Mixed 17.9 58% 20.4 GB/s	SC Read 14.6 SC Write 21.6 SC Mixed 18.9 52% 18.4 GB/s	Latency 64.4 62% 64.4 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 59.5% Great: 63%

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

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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	850x
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 $109Bench 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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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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