Asus Z97-A

Performance Results


Gaming 23% Surfboard	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 20% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 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 83%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	22.1% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	98% 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

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A (all builds)
Memory	8.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 04 '17 at 14:14
Run Duration	161 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (47^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	83% Excellent	Memory 89.3 1-Core 129 2-Core 255 88% 158 Pts	4-Core 414 8-Core 652 66% 533 Pts	64-Core 662 41% 662 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 83% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 270X-$199 77,943 User benchmarks, average bench 27% MSI(1462 3033) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 22.19.662.4 Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	22.1% Poor	Lighting 26.2 Reflection 17.9 Parallax 43.6 21% 29.2 fps	MRender 18.3 Gravity 29.6 Splatting 34.8 24% 27.6 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 22.1% Great: 29%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 234GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6240 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1697 (B1) Unknown 99 99 12 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 58 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 95 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13748133602	93.6% Outstanding	Read 467 Write 338 Mixed 349 85% 385 MB/s	4K Read 44.9 4K Write 73.2 4K Mixed 24.9 139% 47.7 MB/s	DQ Read 370 DQ Write 244 DQ Mixed 94.8 128% 236 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 93.6% Great: 126%
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 163GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM04B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7660 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2896 (B1) Unknown 97 97 99 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 60 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 83 (EB) Unknown 99 99 234 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15917685254	98% Outstanding	Read 502 Write 394 Mixed 423 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 31.2 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 24 132% 52.4 MB/s	DQ Read 373 DQ Write 303 DQ Mixed 68 124% 248 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 98% Great: 116%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 1.5TB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8525 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11534 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 13437 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3884 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 360 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 11173 (C2) HDA temperature 119 98 33 (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 51	76.5% Very good	Read 147 Write 120 Mixed 136 101% 134 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 0.53 132% 1.22 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 76.5% Great: 85%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB-$230 19,674 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 1TB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 99 26744112 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6247 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 549508130 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6139 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1697 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 59 538443807 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 328 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 15987 (C2) HDA temperature 31 41 51539607583 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -96129958013341 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6985821570 (F2) Unknown 100 253 191634680848	68.2% Good	Read 106 Write 131 Mixed 104 85% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 5.38 4K Mixed 0.56 190% 2.21 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 68.2% Great: 94%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLT8G3D1869DT1TX0. 2x8GB 2,378 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1867 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (51^st percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	52.9% Above average	MC Read 18.5 MC Write 18.6 MC Mixed 16.1 51% 17.7 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 19.9 SC Mixed 18.2 51% 17.9 GB/s	Latency 68.1 59% 68.1 ns
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 52.9% Great: 78%

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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	2,310x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,186x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	420x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	791x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	342x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	307x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	271x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	202x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	137x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	248x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	151x
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 $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