Asus Z97-A-USB31

Performance Results


Gaming 55% Yacht	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 91.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	54.1% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	113% 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	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 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A-USB31 (all builds)
Memory	28.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 21 '18 at 08:03
Run Duration	208 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing as expected (51^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)	91.2% Outstanding	Memory 97.6 1-Core 133 2-Core 259 92% 163 Pts	4-Core 458 8-Core 700 72% 579 Pts	64-Core 701 43% 701 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 91.2% Great: 87%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
AMD RX 480-$75 261,163 User benchmarks, average bench 46% Sapphire(174B E347) CLim: 1306 MHz, MLim: 1750 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 18.3.3 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	54.1% Above average	Lighting 68.4 Reflection 69.8 Parallax 92.9 56% 77 fps	MRender 68.2 Gravity 65.6 Splatting 55.3 51% 63 fps
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 54.1% Great: 53%
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% EVGA(3842 2966) CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 391.24 Performing below potential (28^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	31% Below average	Lighting 36.9 Reflection 36.1 Parallax 29.2 30% 34.1 fps	MRender 39 Gravity 43.5 Splatting 37.9 33% 40.1 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 31% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 315GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5752 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 905 (B1) Unknown 99 99 12 (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 67 48 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 18 (EB) Unknown 99 99 193 (F1) Unknown 99 99 18167154908	113% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 412 Mixed 218 84% 383 MB/s	4K Read 46.9 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 43.6 183% 65.3 MB/s	DQ Read 298 DQ Write 243 DQ Mixed 121 131% 221 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 134%
Spcc Solid State Disk 120GB 22,489 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 61GB free Firmware: O1204A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 512 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1023 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 144 (A2) Unknown 100 100 1 (A3) Unknown 100 100 8 (A4) Unknown 100 100 33588 (A5) Unknown 100 100 33 (A6) Unknown 100 100 28 (A7) Unknown 100 100 31 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 359 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 54102 (F2) Unknown 100 100 87226 (F5) Unknown 100 100 74121	66.4% Good	Read 433 Write 290 Mixed 223 70% 316 MB/s	4K Read 17.7 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 3.5 93% 46.1 MB/s	DQ Read 54 DQ Write 210 DQ Mixed 19 47% 94.3 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 66.4% Great: 83%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 359GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 183 182 3833 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1957 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6268 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 427 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 117 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1841 (C2) HDA temperature 117 107 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 199 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	57.7% Above average	Read 93.5 Write 107 Mixed 31.1 56% 77.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.23 4K Write 2.05 4K Mixed 0.31 81% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 57.7% Great: 112%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 229GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 183 182 3833 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2715 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6475 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 476 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 143 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2569 (C2) HDA temperature 117 96 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	55.3% Above average	Read 99.5 Write 92.9 Mixed 111 77% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 2.31 4K Mixed 0.25 94% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 55.3% Great: 112%
WD VelociRaptor 500GB-$62 8,133 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 19GB free Firmware: 04.06A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 176 2083 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 341 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 65 65 25764 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 183 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 60 471334940 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 109 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 232 (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	74.9% Very good	Read 134 Write 126 Mixed 95.9 88% 119 MB/s	4K Read 1.52 4K Write 4.11 4K Mixed 0.43 187% 2.02 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 2133 C9 4x8GB 523 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	81% Excellent	MC Read 29.1 MC Write 29.5 MC Mixed 25.5 80% 28 GB/s	SC Read 21 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 27.7 70% 24.3 GB/s	Latency 48 83% 48 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 81% Great: 92%

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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	850x
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	127x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	80x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	93x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 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	65x
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 $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 $178	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