Asus Z97-A-USB31

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 14% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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 92.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	13.9% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
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.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A-USB31 (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 31 '16 at 03:18
Run Duration	128 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (77^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 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.6% Outstanding	Memory 95.6 1-Core 129 2-Core 253 90% 159 Pts	4-Core 491 8-Core 652 73% 571 Pts	64-Core 652 40% 652 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 92.6% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 7770 38,053 User benchmarks, average bench 12% XFX(1682 3232) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 16.150.2211.0 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	13.9% Very poor	Lighting 16.8 Reflection 18.2 Parallax 22.6 14% 19.2 fps	MRender 15 Gravity 15.4 Splatting 20.6 14% 17 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 13.9% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
OCZ REVODRIVE350 240GB 81 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 182GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.50 Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 57% Great: 105%
Seagate ST310005 28AS 1TB 6,973 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 571GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 100 81883675 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1270 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 6040606 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 900 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 473 (B7) Unknown 94 94 6 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 524413 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 51 572325922 (C2) HDA temperature 34 49 64424509474 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 33 32 81883675 (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 6708738917596 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3753362865 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4145044624	59.3% Above average	Read 110 Write 96.2 Mixed 104 78% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.63 138% 1.09 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 59.3% Great: 69%
Toshiba P300 1TB-$45 318,836 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 255GB free Firmware: MS2O Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 143 143 67 (03) Spinup time 123 123 12897091771 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 614 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 115 115 34 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 628 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 289 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 614 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 614 (C2) HDA temperature 171 171 171799740451 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	69% Good	Read 139 Write 102 Mixed 138 96% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.65 4K Mixed 0.2 73% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GB 48,796 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	63.9% Good	MC Read 22.3 MC Write 22.7 MC Mixed 19.8 62% 21.6 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 23.8 SC Mixed 21 59% 20.6 GB/s	Latency 55.2 72% 55.2 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 63.9% 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	856x
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	206x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	128x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	81x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	93x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	90x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $75Bench 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	67x
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 $260	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	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) $32	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