Asus Z97-A-USB31

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 87.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	85.4% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	136% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

Very high background CPU (31%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A-USB31 (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 04 '17 at 20:34
Run Duration	140 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	31%

PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	87.2% Excellent	Memory 97.7 1-Core 121 2-Core 227 86% 149 Pts	4-Core 414 8-Core 643 65% 529 Pts	64-Core 645 40% 645 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 87.2% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36B6) CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.66 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	85.4% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 113 Parallax 112 91% 112 fps	MRender 93.3 Gravity 98.1 Splatting 86.7 75% 92.7 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 480GB 11,256 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 100GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	136% Outstanding	Read 957 Write 668 Mixed 787 178% 804 MB/s	4K Read 25.3 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 29.5 130% 52.5 MB/s	DQ Read 353 DQ Write 435 DQ Mixed 96.7 156% 295 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 136% Great: 182%
Samsung HD501LJ 1TB 11 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 890GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 148 115 5591 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4446 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 18638 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2710 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 708 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 68 68 398800 (C2) HDA temperature 115 96 32 (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	58.2% Above average	Read 101 Write 101 Mixed 102 77% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.17 79% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 58.2% Great: 112%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$45 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 371GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 82779064 (03) Spinup time 96 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1311 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 13132718 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3736 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 559 (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 70 55 504627230 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 45 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 10765 (C2) HDA temperature 30 45 73014444062 (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 -105471511884955 (F1) Unknown 100 253 15596668829 (F2) Unknown 100 253 235778576950	79.8% Very good	Read 112 Write 165 Mixed 138 104% 138 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 5.34 4K Mixed 0.65 204% 2.25 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 79.8% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 6,144 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	85.1% Excellent	MC Read 31.2 MC Write 32.3 MC Mixed 27 86% 30.2 GB/s	SC Read 19.6 SC Write 22.5 SC Mixed 26 65% 22.7 GB/s	Latency 47.5 84% 47.5 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 85.1% Great: 86%

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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	854x
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	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 $254	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 $163	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 $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16