Asus Z97-A

Performance Results


Gaming 65% Destroyer	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 55% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 93.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	64.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	72.2% 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140711
Uptime	19.2 Days
Run Date	May 01 '17 at 01:36
Run Duration	191 Seconds
Run User	IRL-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.3% Outstanding	Memory 96.9 1-Core 137 2-Core 273 94% 169 Pts	4-Core 484 8-Core 727 75% 606 Pts	64-Core 728 45% 728 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 93.3% Great: 87%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Asus(1043 8534) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4531 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 3% Great: 3%
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Palit(1569 13C0) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 381.89 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	64.9% Good	Lighting 83.6 Reflection 81.3 Parallax 74.1 68% 79.7 fps	MRender 79.6 Gravity 73.1 Splatting 65 59% 72.6 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 64.9% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 81GB free (System drive) Firmware: 541ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 198358659 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 -121521804652378 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 124 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 36 (B1) Unknown 0 0 98 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 24 44 60132425752 (C2) HDA temperature 24 44 60132425752 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 198358659 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 198358659 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 198358659 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 22528 (EA) Unknown 0 0 15705 (F1) Unknown 0 0 15705 (F2) Unknown 0 0 13659	72.2% Very good	Read 500 Write 240 Mixed 253 73% 331 MB/s	4K Read 25.1 4K Write 122 4K Mixed 13.3 120% 53.4 MB/s	DQ Read 31.3 DQ Write 129 DQ Mixed 9.42 28% 56.6 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 72.2% Great: 85%
SanDisk Extreme Pro 240GB-$79 10,862 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 53GB free Firmware: X21200RL 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 253 100 10657 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 33 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 21 (A8) Unknown 100 100 76 (A9) Unknown 100 100 429 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 33 (AE) Unknown 100 100 9 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 78 46 197569675286 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 266 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 8819 (F1) Unknown 253 253 6665 (F2) Unknown 253 253 33208 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	112% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 481 Mixed 486 110% 494 MB/s	4K Read 37.2 4K Write 124 4K Mixed 28.3 158% 63.3 MB/s	DQ Read 357 DQ Write 338 DQ Mixed 20.8 105% 239 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 114%
OCZ Agility 3 240GB-$199 10,165 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 44GB free Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 114 77547495 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 68 68 -104522324086819 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 88 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 422 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 0 0 13900 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 77547495 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 77547495 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 77547495 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11680 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11956 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11956 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11086	56.2% Above average	Read 195 Write 165 Mixed 148 38% 169 MB/s	4K Read 26.3 4K Write 128 4K Mixed 11.9 123% 55.5 MB/s	DQ Read 29.6 DQ Write 132 DQ Mixed 11.4 29% 57.7 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 56.2% Great: 66%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 669GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 171 166 6441 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 266 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 20645 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 118 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 29 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 236 (C2) HDA temperature 115 107 35 (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	81.3% Excellent	Read 148 Write 135 Mixed 147 108% 143 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 2.7 4K Mixed 0.26 106% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 81.3% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GB 11,630 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	79% Very good	MC Read 28.5 MC Write 29.1 MC Mixed 24.9 78% 27.5 GB/s	SC Read 19.6 SC Write 24.9 SC Mixed 25.3 66% 23.3 GB/s	Latency 50.6 79% 50.6 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 79% Great: 79%

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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	2,317x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,194x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	420x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	794x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	342x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	309x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	273x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	202x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	138x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	251x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	152x
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 $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16