Asus Z97-A

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 60% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86.1% 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	63.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150427
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 07 '17 at 19:43
Run Duration	158 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	15%

PC Performing above expectations (75^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-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	88.2% Excellent	Memory 90.1 1-Core 127 2-Core 256 88% 158 Pts	4-Core 499 8-Core 494 67% 497 Pts	64-Core 502 31% 502 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 88.2% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4996) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	86.1% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 116 Parallax 105 90% 110 fps	MRender 94.8 Gravity 102 Splatting 90.1 78% 95.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 69GB free Firmware: 580ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 3716074 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 -61658550490147 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2643 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 500 (B1) Unknown 0 0 96 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 32 48 47247786016 (C2) HDA temperature 32 48 47247786016 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3716074 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3716074 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3716074 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 20101 (EA) Unknown 0 0 14217 (F1) Unknown 0 0 14217 (F2) Unknown 0 0 20958	62.7% Good	Read 509 Write 92.8 Mixed 153 54% 252 MB/s	4K Read 25.9 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 12.8 115% 50 MB/s	DQ Read 74.3 DQ Write 112 DQ Mixed 27.3 39% 71 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 62.7% Great: 73%
Intel SSD Pro 1500 Series 180GB-$209 7,834 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 13GB free (System drive) Firmware: LH6i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 66125316492849 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1362 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 1362 (B7) Unknown 100 100 9 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 37 53 60133015589 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1362 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 250668 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 55 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 92 92 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 250668 (F2) Unknown 100 100 307132 (F9) Unknown 100 100 52172	63.4% Good	Read 436 Write 160 Mixed 209 59% 268 MB/s	4K Read 28.5 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 9.35 117% 51.9 MB/s	DQ Read 27.6 DQ Write 126 DQ Mixed 33.1 38% 62.3 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 82%
WD Blue 320GB (2007)-$90 108,153 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 75GB free Firmware: 01.03A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 182 163 1007084 (03) Spinup time 158 156 3100 (04) Start/Stop count 80 80 20304 (05) Reallocated sector count 180 180 155 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 25442 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 92 92 8185 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1126 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 194 194 20304 (C2) HDA temperature 106 94 37 (C4) Reallocation count 156 156 44 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 172 13 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 179 136 1117 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 19 1 23254	48.8% Average	Read 87.5 Write 82.4 Mixed 73.5 61% 81.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.82 4K Mixed 0.25 89% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 48.8% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown Team-Elite-1600 0423 Team-Elite-1333 16GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 1600, 1333 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	51.5% Above average	MC Read 17.3 MC Write 18.7 MC Mixed 16.3 50% 17.4 GB/s	SC Read 15.1 SC Write 18 SC Mixed 15.4 46% 16.2 GB/s	Latency 67 60% 67 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 51.5% Great: 52%

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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	2,309x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,185x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	420x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	790x
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 $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 $273	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 $179	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