Asus Z97-A

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 87.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	85.9% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	40.9% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	3.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 30 '17 at 21:45
Run Duration	197 Seconds
Run User	JPN-User
Background CPU	9%

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PC Performing above expectations (70^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 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	87.2% Excellent	Memory 93.9 1-Core 115 2-Core 233 84% 148 Pts	4-Core 467 8-Core 462 62% 464 Pts	64-Core 462 29% 462 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 87.2% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 381.89 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	85.9% Excellent	Lighting 107 Reflection 121 Parallax 111 88% 113 fps	MRender 99.1 Gravity 98.2 Splatting 104 83% 100 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 85.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Ocz-vertex2 3.5 120GB 4,046 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 49GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.37 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 104 109354325 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 59201829236428 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1892 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 800 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 115 104 109354325 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11200 (EA) Unknown 0 0 14656 (F1) Unknown 0 0 14656 (F2) Unknown 0 0 17856	40.9% Average	Read 192 Write 78.4 Mixed 104 27% 125 MB/s	4K Read 19.8 4K Write 69.7 4K Mixed 11.9 82% 33.8 MB/s	DQ Read 113 DQ Write 96.1 DQ Mixed 33.3 44% 80.8 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 40.9% Great: 55%
Ocz-vertex2 3.5 120GB 4,046 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 28GB free Firmware: 1.37 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 102 133454018 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -70360154219065 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2126 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 725 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 116 102 133454018 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4224 (EA) Unknown 0 0 5632 (F1) Unknown 0 0 5632 (F2) Unknown 0 0 10752	47.9% Average	Read 196 Write 94.3 Mixed 118 30% 136 MB/s	4K Read 23.5 4K Write 81.3 4K Mixed 16.1 99% 40.3 MB/s	DQ Read 137 DQ Write 103 DQ Mixed 37.5 50% 92.5 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 47.9% Great: 55%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 72GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 136 124 6166 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10166 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 48 48 38185 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1541 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1097 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 131 131 208798 (C2) HDA temperature 110 90 37 (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	50.8% Above average	Read 98.5 Write 78.3 Mixed 78.9 64% 85.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.23 74% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 50.8% Great: 59%
Hitachi Deskstar P7K500 500GB-$159 43,620 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 3GB free Firmware: GM4OA5CA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 133 133 138 (03) Spinup time 126 126 25790251305 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 13225 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 129 129 30 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 62192 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2202 (C0) Power-off retract count 75 75 30187 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 75 75 30187 (C2) HDA temperature 142 142 240519217194 (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 1234	30.7% Below average	Read 52.9 Write 53.8 Mixed 53.5 40% 53.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.33 4K Mixed 0.34 82% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 30.7% Great: 51%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GB 48,796 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	62.5% Good	MC Read 21.7 MC Write 22.7 MC Mixed 19.8 61% 21.4 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 21.5 SC Mixed 20.2 56% 19.6 GB/s	Latency 60.1 66% 60.1 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 62.5% Great: 63%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-A - $150

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	2,301x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,182x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	419x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	787x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	340x
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	201x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	136x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	247x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	150x
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 $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	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) $35	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