Asus Z97-A

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 80% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 55% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 75.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	92.7% 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	81.8% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A (all builds)
Memory	3.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140711
Uptime	4.1 Days
Run Date	May 27 '17 at 16:42
Run Duration	115 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$50 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 0.8 GHz, turbo 3.25 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	75.2% Very good	Memory 90.2 1-Core 100 2-Core 162 71% 117 Pts	4-Core 347 8-Core 362 47% 354 Pts	64-Core 376 23% 376 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 75.2% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$278 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Zotac(19DA 1435) CLim: 2088 MHz, MLim: 2017 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.7% Outstanding	Lighting 119 Reflection 116 Parallax 102 97% 112 fps	MRender 97.4 Gravity 104 Splatting 104 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 92.7% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 50GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0CB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3346 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1848 (B1) Unknown 94 94 67 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 58 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 414 (F1) Unknown 99 99 17036396968	81.8% Excellent	Read 486 Write 339 Mixed 337 86% 387 MB/s	4K Read 42.3 4K Write 65.5 4K Mixed 18.9 123% 42.2 MB/s	DQ Read 44.3 DQ Write 232 DQ Mixed 42.5 61% 106 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 81.8% Great: 108%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$40 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 433GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 172 2308 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3722 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3449 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1810 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 92 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3629 (C2) HDA temperature 117 106 26 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	89.7% Excellent	Read 152 Write 160 Mixed 141 114% 151 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 2.68 4K Mixed 0.21 127% 1.4 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 89.7% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 47,852 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	56.9% Above average	MC Read 20.6 MC Write 21.3 MC Mixed 18 57% 20 GB/s	SC Read 12.7 SC Write 19.1 SC Mixed 15 45% 15.6 GB/s	Latency 66.9 60% 66.9 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 56.9% Great: 62%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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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 $85Bench 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 $260	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 $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16