Asus Z97-A

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (95th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 5 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	84.4% 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	347% 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.

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	12.3 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 22 '20 at 03:23
Run Duration	209 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing way above expectations (95^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 (97^th percentile)	85.1% Excellent	Memory 97.5 1-Core 125 2-Core 228 87% 150 Pts	4-Core 392 8-Core 612 62% 502 Pts	64-Core 622 38% 622 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 85.1% 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: 2265 MHz, MLim: 3300 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 456.71 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	84.4% Excellent	Lighting 107 Reflection 98.9 Parallax 91.6 87% 99.1 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 95 Splatting 85.7 79% 98.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 81%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata XPG SX8200 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$86 85,928 User benchmarks, average bench 279% 655GB free (System drive) Firmware: 42A4SANA Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1984 2060 2139 2221 2172 2183 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	347% Outstanding	Read 2,435 Write 1,675 Mixed 228 SusWrite 2,127 360% 1,616 MB/s	4K Read 56.5 4K Write 158 4K Mixed 80.9 273% 98.6 MB/s	DQ Read 976 DQ Write 610 DQ Mixed 561 480% 715 MB/s
Poor: 175% ↑ This bench: 347% Great: 372%
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 445GB free Firmware: X31200RL SusWrite @10s intervals: 425 436 400 233 219 210 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	Read 483 Write 445 Mixed 328 SusWrite 320 88% 394 MB/s	4K Read 32.5 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 45.6 167% 63.5 MB/s	DQ Read 370 DQ Write 316 DQ Mixed 253 214% 313 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 108%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 74GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 395 278 277 275 275 276 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	113% Outstanding	Read 495 Write 476 Mixed 432 SusWrite 296 96% 425 MB/s	4K Read 41.3 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 54.7 192% 69.2 MB/s	DQ Read 375 DQ Write 349 DQ Mixed 234 211% 319 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 113% 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% Excellent	MC Read 30.5 MC Write 32 MC Mixed 26.8 85% 29.8 GB/s	SC Read 18.9 SC Write 23.1 SC Mixed 25.8 65% 22.6 GB/s	Latency 48.5 83% 48.5 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 84% 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	2,312x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,187x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	420x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	791x
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 $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	202x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	137x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	250x
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 $269	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 $177	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