Asus Z97-A-USB31

Performance Results


Gaming 61% Destroyer	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	66.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	93.7% 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z97-A-USB31 (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150212
Uptime	5 Days
Run Date	Feb 10 '17 at 01:00
Run Duration	158 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (79^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 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	87.3% Excellent	Memory 95.9 1-Core 117 2-Core 235 85% 149 Pts	4-Core 425 8-Core 619 65% 522 Pts	64-Core 616 38% 616 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-X-$781 8,241 User benchmarks, average bench 59% AMD(1002 0B36) CLim: 1050 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 16.12.2 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	66.2% Good	Lighting 83.8 Reflection 59.2 Parallax 117 68% 86.7 fps	MRender 59.3 Gravity 90.9 Splatting 75.8 62% 75.3 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 66.2% Great: 65%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 830 256GB-$261 25,763 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 155GB free Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 15906 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3503 (B1) Unknown 93 93 239 (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 73 54 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 6 (EB) Unknown 99 99 253 (F1) Unknown 99 99 49615730183	82.9% Excellent	Read 501 Write 390 Mixed 437 99% 443 MB/s	4K Read 22.9 4K Write 69.7 4K Mixed 23.6 102% 38.7 MB/s	DQ Read 275 DQ Write 99.7 DQ Mixed 14.6 56% 130 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 82.9% Great: 86%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 103GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q 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 97 97 10306 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2073 (B1) Unknown 95 95 60 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 65 53 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 87 (F1) Unknown 99 99 46108030657	93.7% Outstanding	Read 499 Write 344 Mixed 351 88% 398 MB/s	4K Read 39.5 4K Write 85.1 4K Mixed 24.1 136% 49.6 MB/s	DQ Read 341 DQ Write 241 DQ Mixed 21.8 89% 201 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 93.7% Great: 118%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 462GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 171 170 2408 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8719 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 9785 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2064 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 76 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8642 (C2) HDA temperature 120 107 23 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	90.1% Outstanding	Read 168 Write 146 Mixed 136 112% 150 MB/s	4K Read 1.23 4K Write 2.48 4K Mixed 0.35 137% 1.36 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 90.1% Great: 109%
WD My Book 25EE 3TB 3,089 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 2.5TB free, PID 25ee Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	60.9% Good	Read 162 Write 137 Mixed 133 181% 144 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 2.36 4K Mixed 0.25 92% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 91%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 122,541 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	69.7% Good	MC Read 24.2 MC Write 25.7 MC Mixed 22.3 69% 24.1 GB/s	SC Read 18 SC Write 21.7 SC Mixed 23.1 60% 20.9 GB/s	Latency 54.2 74% 54.2 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 69.7% Great: 72%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

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Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus Z97-A-USB31

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	850x
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 $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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) $30	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