Asus Z97-A-USB31

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (90th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 10 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 82.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	96% 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	119% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A-USB31 (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150624
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 11 '19 at 13:06
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	6%

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PC Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4670K-$127 128,482 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	82.1% Excellent	Memory 94.7 1-Core 110 2-Core 195 78% 133 Pts	4-Core 405 8-Core 390 54% 397 Pts	64-Core 405 25% 405 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 82.1% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6276) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 2112 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96% Outstanding	Lighting 124 Reflection 124 Parallax 107 101% 118 fps	MRender 103 Gravity 109 Splatting 104 86% 105 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 96% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 103GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 328 143 132 131 130 122 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	119% Outstanding	Read 500 Write 484 Mixed 387 SusWrite 164 86% 384 MB/s	4K Read 48.3 4K Write 147 4K Mixed 66.6 236% 87.3 MB/s	DQ Read 379 DQ Write 346 DQ Mixed 354 268% 360 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 124%
WD WD6000HLHX-01JJPV0 600GB 6,863 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 374GB free Firmware: 04.0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 119 122 120 123 123 122 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	71.6% Very good	Read 127 Write 124 Mixed 87.5 SusWrite 122 85% 115 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 3.4 4K Mixed 1.3 253% 1.93 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 71.6% Great: 80%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 10,150 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	63.4% Good	MC Read 22.2 MC Write 23 MC Mixed 20.1 62% 21.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 20.8 SC Mixed 20.3 55% 19.2 GB/s	Latency 57.8 69% 57.8 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 63.4% 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-USB31

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	851x
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 $94Bench 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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Value: 60% - Above average

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 $177	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