Asus Z97-A

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (87th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 13 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 88.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	79.7% 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	276% 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.

Very high background CPU (49%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180418
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 06 '20 at 21:23
Run Duration	147 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	49%

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PC Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	88.9% Excellent	Memory 97.3 1-Core 120 2-Core 248 88% 155 Pts	4-Core 435 8-Core 622 66% 529 Pts	64-Core 648 40% 648 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 88.9% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1660-Ti-$143 318,562 User benchmarks, average bench 76% MSI(1462 375A) CLim: 2175 MHz, MLim: 3000 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 456.55 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	79.7% Very good	Lighting 102 Reflection 95 Parallax 87 83% 94.6 fps	MRender 106 Gravity 90 Splatting 79.1 74% 91.7 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 79.7% Great: 81%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata XPG SX8200 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$80 85,928 User benchmarks, average bench 279% 470GB free (System drive) Firmware: 42A4SANA Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 952 863 866 977 982 1002 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	276% Outstanding	Read 2,418 Write 792 Mixed 241 SusWrite 940 240% 1,098 MB/s	4K Read 56.9 4K Write 167 4K Mixed 81.3 279% 102 MB/s	DQ Read 927 DQ Write 662 DQ Mixed 567 485% 719 MB/s
Poor: 175% ↑ This bench: 276% Great: 372%
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 445GB free Firmware: X31200RL SusWrite @10s intervals: 434 445 411 229 218 211 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Read 504 Write 458 Mixed 345 SusWrite 325 92% 408 MB/s	4K Read 34.4 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 44.8 170% 64.3 MB/s	DQ Read 371 DQ Write 313 DQ Mixed 256 215% 313 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 108%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 74GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 367 274 275 276 275 276 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	115% Outstanding	Read 497 Write 475 Mixed 430 SusWrite 290 95% 423 MB/s	4K Read 43.1 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 56 197% 70.8 MB/s	DQ Read 378 DQ Write 346 DQ Mixed 238 213% 321 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 118%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 10,124 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	84.5% Excellent	MC Read 30.8 MC Write 32.2 MC Mixed 26.8 86% 29.9 GB/s	SC Read 19.5 SC Write 23.2 SC Mixed 25.9 65% 22.9 GB/s	Latency 48.9 82% 48.9 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 62%

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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%

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Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-A - $150

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	2,306x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,184x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	420x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	789x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	341x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	307x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	270x
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 $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