Asus Z97-A

Performance Results


Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 47% Yacht


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 a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 85%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	63.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	80.3% 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 27 '18 at 03:15
Run Duration	268 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	3%

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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 i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.85 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	85% Excellent	Memory 92.2 1-Core 114 2-Core 219 81% 142 Pts	4-Core 424 8-Core 586 64% 505 Pts	64-Core 598 37% 598 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 85% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Nvidia(10DE 1C03) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.4% Good	Lighting 80 Reflection 80.9 Parallax 69.8 65% 76.9 fps	MRender 70.4 Gravity 72.5 Splatting 75.3 60% 72.8 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow KC400 128GB-$75 747 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 62GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM00.Y Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8061 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 921 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 240 (AD) Unknown 100 100 7471291 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 180 (C2) HDA temperature 64 50 214749347876 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 97 (E9) Unknown 100 100 14959 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 12826 (F2) Unknown 100 100 9542 (F4) Unknown 100 100 114 (F5) Unknown 100 100 187 (F6) Unknown 100 100 3934752	80.3% Excellent	Read 517 Write 318 Mixed 371 89% 402 MB/s	4K Read 29.7 4K Write 78.2 4K Mixed 11.1 101% 39.7 MB/s	DQ Read 284 DQ Write 249 DQ Mixed 10.5 78% 181 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 106%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$50 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 860GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 171 4241 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1424 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 12338 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1361 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 210 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 140 140 181247 (C2) HDA temperature 115 93 32 (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	79.6% Very good	Read 140 Write 138 Mixed 119 99% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.88 4K Mixed 0.21 84% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 79.6% Great: 84%
Seagate ST3500312CS 500GB-$31 89,637 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 466GB free Firmware: SC13 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 1616177 (03) Spinup time 99 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 37 1 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 22858 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2482 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 145 (BC) Unknown 100 99 28 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 69 51 521666591 (C2) HDA temperature 31 49 34359738399 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 37 23 1616177 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	57.7% Above average	Read 110 Write 90.6 Mixed 90 73% 97 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.49 111% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 57.7% Great: 60%
Seagate ST3500312CS 500GB-$31 89,637 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 465GB free Firmware: SC13 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 99 1662656 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 37 1 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 75 20139 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 37 1484 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 81 81 19 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 457 (BE) vendor-specific 69 50 521928735 (C2) HDA temperature 31 50 34359738399 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 23 10 1662656 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	59.9% Above average	Read 112 Write 96.3 Mixed 94.4 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.37 96% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 59.9% Great: 60%
Seagate Expansion 500GB 5,329 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 414GB free Firmware: 0637 Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile)	19.3% Very poor	Read 37.5 Write 29.8 Mixed 38.8 27% 35.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.22 4K Write 0.65 4K Mixed 0.16 39% 0.34 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 19.3% Great: 62%
Hitachi HTS545050A7E680 500GB 66,048 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 378GB free Firmware: GR2OA3E0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 230 230 55834574849 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 467 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 3748 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 412 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 9 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 20747 (C2) HDA temperature 193 193 214749347871 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	54.1% Above average	Read 92.6 Write 95.9 Mixed 88.9 70% 92.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.16 67% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 54.1% Great: 58%
WD WD800JD-75MSA3 80GB-$105 18,464 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 74GB free Firmware: 10.01E04 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 165 2300 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1127 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4336 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 970 (BE) vendor-specific 65 40 35 (C2) HDA temperature 108 83 35 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 68 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 1	32.9% Below average	Read 56.1 Write 58 Mixed 56.3 43% 56.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.5 111% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 32.9% Great: 33%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CT102464BA160B.C16 0118 4GBH1X04JACC31-165 0118 4GBH1X04JACC31-165 16GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 1600, 1867, 1867 MHz 8192, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	58% Above average	MC Read 20.9 MC Write 21.1 MC Mixed 16.8 56% 19.6 GB/s	SC Read 15.9 SC Write 21.3 SC Mixed 20.1 55% 19.1 GB/s	Latency 63.7 63% 63.7 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 58% Great: 58%

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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	2,325x
Core i5-4690KIntel $50Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,197x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	421x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	795x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	343x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	310x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	274x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	202x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	139x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	252x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	154x
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 i5-12600K $170	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 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $29	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