Asus Z97-A-USB31

Performance Results


Gaming 62% Destroyer	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 50% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	62.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	99.5% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 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.

Very high background CPU (54%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A-USB31 (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150127
Uptime	7.2 Days
Run Date	Mar 22 '17 at 23:00
Run Duration	226 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	54%

PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 0.8 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.2% Outstanding	Memory 98.1 1-Core 138 2-Core 275 95% 170 Pts	4-Core 481 8-Core 455 63% 468 Pts	64-Core 533 33% 533 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-$199 18,014 User benchmarks, average bench 58% Asus(1043 049E) CLim: 1000 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.2.1 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	62.2% Good	Lighting 80.8 Reflection 56.5 Parallax 103 66% 80.2 fps	MRender 56.1 Gravity 73.7 Splatting 70.2 55% 66.7 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 62.2% Great: 62%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$115 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 41GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1422 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 678 (B1) Unknown 99 99 19 (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 71 64 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 25 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4551686194	99.5% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 334 Mixed 431 94% 424 MB/s	4K Read 35.7 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 37.7 157% 58.8 MB/s	DQ Read 306 DQ Write 202 DQ Mixed 112 122% 206 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 99.5% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 226GB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 101 99 0 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4773 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 5442334 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2911 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2951 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 12885164037 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 75 65 420806681 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 61 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5896 (C2) HDA temperature 25 40 55834574873 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 11 10 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 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -36524401882337 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1475063638 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2488360402	55.2% Above average	Read 72.9 Write 120 Mixed 85.3 70% 92.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 0.76 4K Mixed 0.47 81% 0.52 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 55.2% Great: 75%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 73GB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 222637280 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2165 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2113938 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2035 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1068 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 70 387121175 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 13 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 7258 (C2) HDA temperature 23 40 47244640279 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 741 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -53644141526739 (F1) Unknown 100 253 9556667615 (F2) Unknown 100 253 8633393920	70.1% Very good	Read 125 Write 120 Mixed 122 92% 122 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.68 4K Mixed 0.21 86% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 96%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 35GB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 99 25528160 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4106 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 10281388 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2670 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2626 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 4295032841 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 75 65 420872217 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 45 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5056 (C2) HDA temperature 25 40 60129542169 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 17 13 25528160 (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 19340237736406 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1236454154 (F2) Unknown 100 253 833538475	60.9% Good	Read 112 Write 100 Mixed 107 80% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.35 72% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 75%
SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 32GB-$8 33,725 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 29GB free, PID 5581 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	12.7% Very poor	Read 35 Write 19.8 Mixed 20.2 29% 25 MB/s	4K Read 4.2 4K Write 0.76 4K Mixed 0.56 60% 1.84 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 12.7% Great: 38%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GB 24,592 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.2% Outstanding	MC Read 32.3 MC Write 33.9 MC Mixed 29.7 91% 32 GB/s	SC Read 20.7 SC Write 25.6 SC Mixed 26.9 70% 24.4 GB/s	Latency 45.7 88% 45.7 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 88%

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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	849x
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 $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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Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $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