Asus Z97-A

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 96.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	83% 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	84.3% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140930
Uptime	1.2 Days
Run Date	May 27 '18 at 01:41
Run Duration	112 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing above expectations (79^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96.9% Outstanding	Memory 97.4 1-Core 136 2-Core 269 94% 167 Pts	4-Core 525 8-Core 714 78% 619 Pts	64-Core 711 44% 711 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 96.9% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 5173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.93 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	83% Excellent	Lighting 104 Reflection 111 Parallax 97.3 85% 104 fps	MRender 97.2 Gravity 96 Splatting 99.3 80% 97.5 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 83% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 272GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5663 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1439 (A5) Unknown 100 100 158955078158 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 44 (A8) Unknown 100 100 23 (A9) Unknown 100 100 696 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 9 (AE) Unknown 100 100 41 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 69 54 231929479199 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1314278605106 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 4424 (EA) Unknown 100 100 10787 (F1) Unknown 253 253 8755 (F2) Unknown 253 253 52966 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	84.3% Excellent	Read 494 Write 259 Mixed 238 72% 330 MB/s	4K Read 38.3 4K Write 80.8 4K Mixed 19.6 126% 46.2 MB/s	DQ Read 354 DQ Write 199 DQ Mixed 39.8 93% 197 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 84.3% Great: 108%
Seagate ST3750528AS 750GB-$65 22,230 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 138GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 107 71 12889030 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10942 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 119917773 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 24347 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2675 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 65535 (BC) Unknown 100 91 49 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 77 55 387317783 (C2) HDA temperature 23 45 55834574871 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 38 33 12889030 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 95 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 95 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 47729971594593 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1119526844 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3914580904	56.4% Above average	Read 101 Write 95.2 Mixed 84.4 70% 93.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.49 98% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 56.4% Great: 65%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 20,216 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	85.8% Excellent	MC Read 31.8 MC Write 32.2 MC Mixed 27 87% 30.3 GB/s	SC Read 20.3 SC Write 24.8 SC Mixed 26.2 68% 23.8 GB/s	Latency 48.5 82% 48.5 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 85.8% Great: 86%

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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	2,314x
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	793x
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	272x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	202x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $79Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	138x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	250x
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 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16