Asus Z97-A-USB31

Performance Results


Gaming 108% UFO	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 90% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 83.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	130% 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	78.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A-USB31 (all builds)
Memory	24.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150624
Uptime	3.7 Days
Run Date	Jul 24 '17 at 20:44
Run Duration	144 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 0.8 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	83.4% Excellent	Memory 95 1-Core 126 2-Core 231 86% 151 Pts	4-Core 388 8-Core 621 62% 504 Pts	64-Core 621 38% 621 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 83.4% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	130% Outstanding	Lighting 181 Reflection 204 Parallax 181 148% 189 fps	MRender 131 Gravity 179 Splatting 126 118% 146 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 130% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 642GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 82 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 15 (B1) Unknown 100 100 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 68 62 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 8 (F1) Unknown 99 99 667464216	118% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 408 Mixed 417 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 45.9 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 52 190% 66.2 MB/s	DQ Read 378 DQ Write 287 DQ Mixed 120 147% 262 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 133%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 81GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 14110 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 361 (B1) Unknown 95 95 93 (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 65 59 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 43 (F1) Unknown 99 99 31886740050	78.3% Very good	Read 510 Write 173 Mixed 238 67% 307 MB/s	4K Read 34.7 4K Write 96.5 4K Mixed 17.8 126% 49.7 MB/s	DQ Read 326 DQ Write 165 DQ Mixed 17.6 74% 169 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 124%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 872GB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 38724584 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 336 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 158592528 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14102 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 336 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 65 454426650 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 30882 (C2) HDA temperature 26 40 42949672986 (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 42996917612784 (F1) Unknown 100 253 65619721404 (F2) Unknown 100 253 694652488035	91.7% Outstanding	Read 172 Write 147 Mixed 150 118% 157 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 0.2 83% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 91.7% Great: 96%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2133 C11 4x8GB 793 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1960 MHz Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	63.6% Good	MC Read 22.1 MC Write 23.9 MC Mixed 19.2 62% 21.7 GB/s	SC Read 16.7 SC Write 22.8 SC Mixed 19.4 56% 19.6 GB/s	Latency 57 70% 57 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 63.6% Great: 80%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

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 $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	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 $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