Asus Z97-A-USB31

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


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 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	50.1% 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-USB31 (all builds)
Memory	14.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 21 '17 at 21:48
Run Duration	404 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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 i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	87.6% Excellent	Memory 92.3 1-Core 116 2-Core 240 84% 150 Pts	4-Core 449 8-Core 633 68% 541 Pts	64-Core 634 39% 634 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 87.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Extreme Pro 480GB-$199 9,250 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 103GB free Firmware: X21200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 11668 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 486 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 65 (A8) Unknown 100 100 50 (A9) Unknown 100 100 1165 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 14 (AE) Unknown 100 100 215 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 75 35 150324707353 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 46 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 7861 (F1) Unknown 253 253 5192 (F2) Unknown 253 253 4551 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	74.8% Very good	Read 517 Write 242 Mixed 341 81% 367 MB/s	4K Read 28.4 4K Write 79.6 4K Mixed 20.7 112% 42.9 MB/s	DQ Read 205 DQ Write 81 DQ Mixed 41.2 57% 109 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 74.8% Great: 114%
OCZ Vertex 4 128GB-$215 19,372 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 87GB free Firmware: 1.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 6 0 6 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 40304 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3053 (E8) Unknown 100 100 14947191102 (E9) Unknown 99 0 99	60.1% Good	Read 355 Write 195 Mixed 246 58% 265 MB/s	4K Read 26.9 4K Write 67.5 4K Mixed 17.5 99% 37.3 MB/s	DQ Read 160 DQ Write 66.2 DQ Mixed 42 50% 89.3 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 60.1% Great: 104%
Corsair Force 3 120GB-$109 22,358 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 35GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.3.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 70 70 89133127 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 57 57 22728966968347 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3470 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 194 (B1) Unknown 0 0 14 (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 120 120 89133127 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 89133127 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 89133127 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 91 91 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 50804 (EA) Unknown 0 0 41276 (F1) Unknown 0 0 41276 (F2) Unknown 0 0 32330	50.1% Above average	Read 182 Write 90.7 Mixed 111 28% 128 MB/s	4K Read 29.1 4K Write 90.4 4K Mixed 15.3 112% 44.9 MB/s	DQ Read 132 DQ Write 102 DQ Mixed 31.1 46% 88.2 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 50.1% Great: 61%
Seagate BUP Slim SL 2TB 8,475 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 1.5TB free Firmware: 0302 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	62.5% Good	Read 104 Write 113 Mixed 124 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.34 96% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 62.5% Great: 65%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 177GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 72 68 8761 (04) Start/Stop count 85 85 15716 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 20501 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 3 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3523 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 3 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 61 176094445595 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 11 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 3 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 80 80 205518	70.3% Very good	Read 114 Write 131 Mixed 115 90% 120 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 2.07 4K Mixed 0.43 104% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 70.3% Great: 75%
USB Flash Memory 16GB 2,042 User benchmarks, average bench 8% 11GB free, PID 6545 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	5.36% Terrible	Read 19.5 Write 2.89 Mixed 5.15 9% 9.2 MB/s	4K Read 7.94 4K Write 0.008 4K Mixed 0.004 30% 2.65 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 5.36% Great: 21%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 7,771 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (60^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	52.2% Above average	MC Read 18.2 MC Write 18.3 MC Mixed 15.4 49% 17.3 GB/s	SC Read 14.8 SC Write 20 SC Mixed 18.6 51% 17.8 GB/s	Latency 63.5 63% 63.5 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 52.2% Great: 79%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

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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 $109Bench 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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Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	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