Asus Z97-A-USB31

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 91.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	83.4% 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	104% 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	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

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A-USB31 (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150624
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 20 '18 at 13:04
Run Duration	106 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (73^rd 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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.9% Outstanding	Memory 95.6 1-Core 139 2-Core 278 95% 171 Pts	4-Core 476 8-Core 741 75% 608 Pts	64-Core 743 46% 743 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 91.9% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	83.4% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 112 Parallax 101 87% 107 fps	MRender 94.2 Gravity 99.6 Splatting 90 77% 94.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$182 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 279GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 17863 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1410 (B1) Unknown 99 99 29 (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 74 62 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 31 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23117830915	104% Outstanding	Read 526 Write 503 Mixed 512 115% 514 MB/s	4K Read 38.8 4K Write 126 4K Mixed 29.6 164% 64.8 MB/s	DQ Read 39.9 DQ Write 135 DQ Mixed 162 103% 112 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$37 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 802GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 191722552 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6982 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 4311237510 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 12147 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1091 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 66 403636247 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 83 83 34860 (C2) HDA temperature 23 40 60129542167 (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 -29278792052702 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6712344882 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3970640377196	80.4% Excellent	Read 159 Write 122 Mixed 151 109% 144 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.19 63% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 16G-D3-1600-MR 2x8GB 1,434 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1632 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	62.5% Good	MC Read 21.7 MC Write 22.6 MC Mixed 18.8 60% 21 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 24.1 SC Mixed 19.8 58% 20.4 GB/s	Latency 55.4 72% 55.4 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 62.5% Great: 61%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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-USB31

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	862x
Core i5-4690KIntel $50Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	250x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	125x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	207x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	130x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	82x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	93x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	92x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	39x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	70x
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 i5-12600K $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 $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16