Asus Z97-A-USB31

Performance Results


Gaming 31% Sail boat	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 27% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	36.3% 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	99.8% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (57%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A-USB31 (all builds)
Memory	17.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	5.6 Days
Run Date	Jan 17 '18 at 22:59
Run Duration	194 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	57%

PC Performing as expected (51^st 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 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	75.7% Very good	Memory 86.7 1-Core 108 2-Core 204 76% 133 Pts	4-Core 350 8-Core 505 54% 428 Pts	64-Core 599 37% 599 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 75.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% EVGA(3842 2966) CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	36.3% Below average	Lighting 47.5 Reflection 44.6 Parallax 39.3 39% 43.8 fps	MRender 37.8 Gravity 41.7 Splatting 36.8 32% 38.8 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 36.3% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$135 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 462GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 1 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10956 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 640 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (B3) Unknown 99 99 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 99 99 1 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 53 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 34 (F1) Unknown 99 99 27599303984	99.8% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 404 Mixed 410 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 37.6 4K Write 80.1 4K Mixed 32 140% 49.9 MB/s	DQ Read 316 DQ Write 255 DQ Mixed 133 141% 235 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 99.8% Great: 133%
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 50GB free Firmware: 580ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4972300 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 -63230508513808 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1168 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 131 (B1) Unknown 0 0 98 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 30 47 60132622366 (C2) HDA temperature 30 47 60132622366 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4972300 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4972300 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4972300 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11840 (EA) Unknown 0 0 5672 (F1) Unknown 0 0 5672 (F2) Unknown 0 0 6858	76.6% Very good	Read 502 Write 170 Mixed 232 66% 301 MB/s	4K Read 34 4K Write 93.7 4K Mixed 22.3 130% 50 MB/s	DQ Read 180 DQ Write 190 DQ Mixed 61.4 80% 144 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 87%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 292GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 45 (03) Spinup time 175 139 2225 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9554 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 59 59 30609 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2860 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 394 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9159 (C2) HDA temperature 113 90 30 (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	55.5% Above average	Read 109 Write 84.7 Mixed 99.8 74% 97.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.22 4K Mixed 0.25 72% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 55.5% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GB 1,780 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)	50.9% Above average	MC Read 17.8 MC Write 18.6 MC Mixed 16 50% 17.5 GB/s	SC Read 13 SC Write 17.1 SC Mixed 16 44% 15.4 GB/s	Latency 70.7 57% 70.7 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 50.9% Great: 91%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus Z97-A-USB31

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	849x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	245x
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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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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