Asus Z97-A

Performance Results


Gaming 93% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 78% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 96.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	94.4% 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	125% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150424
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 25 '17 at 06:07
Run Duration	130 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (81^st 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 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96.1% Outstanding	Memory 97.1 1-Core 135 2-Core 272 94% 168 Pts	4-Core 517 8-Core 714 78% 615 Pts	64-Core 714 44% 714 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 96.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6276) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.4% Outstanding	Lighting 121 Reflection 122 Parallax 116 99% 120 fps	MRender 100 Gravity 107 Splatting 106 86% 104 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 237GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 10 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 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 67 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 2 (F1) Unknown 99 99 433598429	125% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 407 Mixed 421 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 48.4 4K Write 129 4K Mixed 55.3 213% 77.7 MB/s	DQ Read 358 DQ Write 280 DQ Mixed 41.4 106% 226 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 125% Great: 134%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 106GB free Firmware: 1B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile)	175% Outstanding	Read 770 Write 630 Mixed 728 158% 710 MB/s	4K Read 57.5 4K Write 191 4K Mixed 58.5 263% 102 MB/s	DQ Read 872 DQ Write 339 DQ Mixed 212 260% 474 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 175% Great: 243%
Seagate ST310005 28AS 1TB 6,973 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 647GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 173415809 (03) Spinup time 95 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7429 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 172482437 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 27379 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3458 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590852111 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 75 52 437846041 (C2) HDA temperature 25 48 73014444057 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 26 22 173415809 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -43512313637149 (F1) Unknown 100 253 15967848 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2839731964	64.4% Good	Read 116 Write 109 Mixed 105 83% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.5 107% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 64.4% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLE8G3D1869DE1TX0. 2x8GB 3,080 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1867 MHz clocked @ 1904 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	73.7% Very good	MC Read 26 MC Write 26.5 MC Mixed 23 72% 25.2 GB/s	SC Read 19.9 SC Write 24.9 SC Mixed 24.3 66% 23 GB/s	Latency 49.9 80% 49.9 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 73.7% Great: 72%

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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	2,310x
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	249x
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