Asus Z97-A

Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 65% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	113% 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	67.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Very high background CPU (83%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 11 '17 at 00:49
Run Duration	138 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	83%

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PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	73.5% Very good	Memory 81 1-Core 118 2-Core 210 77% 136 Pts	4-Core 386 8-Core 362 51% 374 Pts	64-Core 432 27% 432 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 73.5% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6286) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	113% Outstanding	Lighting 151 Reflection 153 Parallax 130 123% 145 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 144 Splatting 112 101% 125 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandisk S240G 500GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 458GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 126 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 63 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 71 59 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1613246684	133% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 498 Mixed 506 113% 506 MB/s	4K Read 49.1 4K Write 135 4K Mixed 58.4 221% 80.9 MB/s	DQ Read 330 DQ Write 321 DQ Mixed 144 158% 265 MB/s
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 133% Great: 133%
SanDisk Extreme II 120GB-$130 2,462 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 27GB free (System drive) Firmware: R1311 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 4872 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1551 (A6) Unknown 100 100 8 (A7) Unknown 100 100 25 (A8) Unknown 100 100 191 (A9) Unknown 100 100 182 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 88 (AE) Unknown 100 100 146 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 71 33 141734641693 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 605 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 11301 (F1) Unknown 253 253 5569 (F2) Unknown 253 253 8438 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	67.1% Good	Read 482 Write 300 Mixed 342 83% 375 MB/s	4K Read 22.4 4K Write 48 4K Mixed 11.2 74% 27.2 MB/s	DQ Read 230 DQ Write 139 DQ Mixed 52.6 75% 140 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 67.1% Great: 101%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 805GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 99810232 (03) Spinup time 99 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2447 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 28018700 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4914 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1547 (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 75 67 420806681 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 26 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 78 78 44823 (C2) HDA temperature 25 40 38654705689 (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 -92981746988371 (F1) Unknown 100 253 34026553778 (F2) Unknown 100 253 402931291894	84.8% Excellent	Read 163 Write 133 Mixed 139 109% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.14 56% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 84.8% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 4x4GB 14,299 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	58.1% Above average	MC Read 20.8 MC Write 21.9 MC Mixed 19.3 59% 20.7 GB/s	SC Read 14.5 SC Write 19.7 SC Mixed 14.6 46% 16.3 GB/s	Latency 78.7 51% 78.7 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 58.1% Great: 64%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97-A - $150

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	2,306x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,184x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	420x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	789x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	341x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	307x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	270x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 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 $279	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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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