Asus Z97-A

Performance Results


Gaming 51% Yacht	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 40% Speed boat


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 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	57.8% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	86.9% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (18%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colori
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150424
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 25 '17 at 11:39
Run Duration	267 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	18%

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 i5-4670K-$62 128,482 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	83% Excellent	Memory 92.1 1-Core 112 2-Core 218 81% 141 Pts	4-Core 428 8-Core 429 57% 428 Pts	64-Core 428 26% 428 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 83% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Gigabyte(1458 367A) CLim: 1519 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	57.8% Above average	Lighting 73.6 Reflection 72.6 Parallax 65 60% 70.4 fps	MRender 73.9 Gravity 67.2 Splatting 58.8 54% 66.6 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 57.8% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 153GB free Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 31 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 18 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 69 64 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 381422600	98.7% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 415 Mixed 419 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 45.4 4K Write 97.8 4K Mixed 27.2 155% 56.8 MB/s	DQ Read 44.8 DQ Write 280 DQ Mixed 114 102% 146 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 98.7% Great: 124%
Plextor M6e PCIe M.2 128GB-$190 585 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 83GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.04 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 56 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2010 (B1) Unknown 100 100 18346 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 306 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 39793 (F2) Unknown 100 100 56352	86.9% Excellent	Read 681 Write 318 Mixed 429 105% 476 MB/s	4K Read 34.7 4K Write 89.1 4K Mixed 21.7 128% 48.5 MB/s	DQ Read 35.3 DQ Write 96.9 DQ Mixed 22.1 30% 51.4 MB/s
Poor: 82% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 116%
WD RE4 1TB (2010)-$54 23,775 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 161GB free Firmware: 01.01V02 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 982 (03) Spinup time 172 164 4391 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1694 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 57 57 31932 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 836 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 273 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1420 (C2) HDA temperature 118 95 1904669 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 20 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 20 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 9	62.1% Good	Read 114 Write 102 Mixed 99 79% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 2.58 4K Mixed 0.44 120% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 62.1% Great: 76%
Samsung SP2504C 250GB-$29 14,402 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 238GB free Firmware: VT100-33 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 253 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 6400 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11225 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 34711 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 2 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6649 (BE) vendor-specific 160 67 26 (C2) HDA temperature 160 67 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 61120 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 5 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 253 253 0	23.1% Poor	Read 40 Write 40.4 Mixed 39.6 30% 40 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 0.94 4K Mixed 0.31 71% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 23.1% Great: 38%
Seagate ST31000528AS 500GB 16 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 21GB free Firmware: 1AA01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 85 85 5430 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8459 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 17157 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4163 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 1 1 147 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 86 49 235405326 (C2) HDA temperature 79 44 17532715029 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 887 (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 100 99 4 (C8) Write error rate 100 99 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	27.4% Poor	Read 46.5 Write 48.5 Mixed 45.5 35% 46.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.84 4K Mixed 0.46 112% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 27.4% Great: 67%
WDC WD2500JB-22GVC0 250GB 81GB free, PID 0641 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 28,461 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	60.6% Good	MC Read 22 MC Write 23.1 MC Mixed 18.1 60% 21.1 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 17.9 SC Mixed 20.1 51% 17.8 GB/s	Latency 64 62% 64 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 60.6% Great: 76%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-A - $150

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	2,309x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,185x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	420x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	790x
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 $109Bench 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 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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