Asus Z97-A-USB31

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 90.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	90.2% 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	88.8% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A-USB31 (all builds)
Memory	29.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 11 '18 at 14:22
Run Duration	118 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.7% Outstanding	Memory 96.9 1-Core 132 2-Core 253 91% 160 Pts	4-Core 455 8-Core 695 71% 575 Pts	64-Core 686 42% 686 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 90.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Zotac(19DA 1394) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1592 MHz, MLim: 1802 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	90.2% Outstanding	Lighting 114 Reflection 123 Parallax 111 93% 116 fps	MRender 101 Gravity 108 Splatting 101 84% 103 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Black NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB (2017)-$154 14,088 User benchmarks, average bench 131% 354GB free (System drive) Firmware: B35500WD Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	88.8% Excellent	Read 641 Write 324 Mixed 379 99% 448 MB/s	4K Read 32.2 4K Write 59 4K Mixed 17.3 102% 36.1 MB/s	DQ Read 416 DQ Write 199 DQ Mixed 46.5 104% 221 MB/s
Poor: 84% ↑ This bench: 88.8% Great: 155%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 194852280 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 248 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 277854 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 321 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 241 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 58 454623259 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 95 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 694 (C2) HDA temperature 27 42 77309411355 (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 76587856822573 (F1) Unknown 100 253 250421012 (F2) Unknown 100 253 103677553	103% Outstanding	Read 180 Write 181 Mixed 162 131% 174 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.2 84% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Sniper DDR3 2133 C10 4x8GB 382 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	80.4% Excellent	MC Read 29.3 MC Write 29.6 MC Mixed 25.4 80% 28.1 GB/s	SC Read 19.9 SC Write 24.8 SC Mixed 25.4 67% 23.4 GB/s	Latency 50.6 79% 50.6 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 84%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97-A-USB31

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	854x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	246x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	125x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	205x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	128x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	81x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	93x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	90x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	39x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	69x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	67x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	46x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $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 $40	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