Asus Z97-A

Performance Results


Gaming 97% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 82% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 92.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	104% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	82.7% 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

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A (all builds)
Memory	19.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Jan 26 '17 at 16:43
Run Duration	187 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing above expectations (62^nd 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 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.8% Outstanding	Memory 95.7 1-Core 133 2-Core 264 92% 164 Pts	4-Core 484 8-Core 711 75% 597 Pts	64-Core 708 44% 708 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 92.8% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 8592) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing below potential (71^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 135 Reflection 147 Parallax 124 110% 135 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 131 Splatting 107 96% 118 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 283GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 49 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 15 (B1) Unknown 100 99 0 (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 70 65 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 517017578	110% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 413 Mixed 421 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 45.7 4K Write 96.1 4K Mixed 43.3 176% 61.7 MB/s	DQ Read 289 DQ Write 200 DQ Mixed 110 118% 199 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 134%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 121GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9558 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2053 (B1) Unknown 97 97 31 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 68 53 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 1 1 187004 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1060 (F1) Unknown 99 99 21930223393	82.7% Excellent	Read 499 Write 344 Mixed 351 88% 398 MB/s	4K Read 40.6 4K Write 74.2 4K Mixed 25.8 134% 46.8 MB/s	DQ Read 44 DQ Write 52.7 DQ Mixed 12.4 19% 36.4 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 118%
Samsung 830 256GB-$261 25,763 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 79GB free Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 15243 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2610 (B1) Unknown 98 98 49 (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 73 57 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 1 1 115205 (EB) Unknown 99 99 248 (F1) Unknown 99 99 14109203030	83.6% Excellent	Read 508 Write 386 Mixed 436 99% 443 MB/s	4K Read 23.9 4K Write 74.6 4K Mixed 22.4 104% 40.3 MB/s	DQ Read 284 DQ Write 100 DQ Mixed 73.6 86% 153 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 83.6% Great: 86%
Seagate IronWolf 10TB (2016)-$239 347 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 6.5TB free Firmware: SC60 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 80 64 102249865 (03) Spinup time 86 86 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 100 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 20508864 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 123763777601954 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 100 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 95 95 5 (BE) vendor-specific 70 62 504758302 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 297 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1143 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 73014444062 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 11 4 102249865 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -88648124989327 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6812931158 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1105539091	121% Outstanding	Read 218 Write 200 Mixed 192 153% 204 MB/s	4K Read 4.51 4K Write 3.98 4K Mixed 0.36 302% 2.95 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 113%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2TB free Firmware: CC52 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 105492672 (03) Spinup time 90 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2327 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 39230670869 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11692 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2280 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 67 50 555024417 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 233 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 79 79 43758 (C2) HDA temperature 33 50 77309411361 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -58205396785026 (F1) Unknown 100 253 143488839290 (F2) Unknown 100 253 209981207467	65.7% Good	Read 140 Write 89.7 Mixed 120 88% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.09 43% 0.48 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 65.7% Great: 96%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 2400 C11 4x8GB 5,910 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 2400 MHz clocked @ 2000 MHz Performing below potential (54^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	73.2% Very good	MC Read 27 MC Write 27.2 MC Mixed 22.4 73% 25.5 GB/s	SC Read 15.7 SC Write 24.5 SC Mixed 24 61% 21.4 GB/s	Latency 54.8 73% 54.8 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 73.2% Great: 109%

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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	2,310x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,186x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	420x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	791x
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 $94Bench 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 $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 $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