Asus Z97-A

Performance Results


Gaming 93% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 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 95.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	94.5% 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	77.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140930
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 16 '17 at 19:19
Run Duration	145 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing above expectations (81^st 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, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.2% Outstanding	Memory 98.5 1-Core 130 2-Core 258 92% 162 Pts	4-Core 500 8-Core 688 75% 594 Pts	64-Core 682 42% 682 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 95.2% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Zotac(19DA 1435) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2052 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.5% Outstanding	Lighting 122 Reflection 121 Parallax 104 99% 116 fps	MRender 101 Gravity 106 Splatting 105 85% 104 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 94.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS 240GB-$160 1,284 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 49GB free Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 94 94 41757723 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 -5033701659027 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1820 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 11 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 41757723 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 41757723 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 41757723 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 12202 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11325 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11325 (F2) Unknown 0 0 18262	82.9% Excellent	Read 478 Write 233 Mixed 298 74% 336 MB/s	4K Read 29.9 4K Write 122 4K Mixed 18.8 134% 57 MB/s	DQ Read 290 DQ Write 203 DQ Mixed 92.4 111% 195 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 82.9% Great: 91%
Geil ZENITH A3-120GBB 120GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 38GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.00 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^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 100 100 583 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 812 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 99 (A3) Unknown 100 100 6 (A4) Unknown 100 100 80113 (A5) Unknown 100 100 127 (A6) Unknown 100 100 26 (A7) Unknown 100 100 79 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (B1) Unknown 100 100 131 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 8 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 43 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 33979 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 205005 (F2) Unknown 100 100 162606 (F5) Unknown 100 100 320452	77.5% Very good	Read 506 Write 141 Mixed 224 63% 290 MB/s	4K Read 25.5 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 29.6 134% 54.6 MB/s	DQ Read 235 DQ Write 140 DQ Mixed 60.4 79% 145 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 77.5% Great: 81%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 671GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 111995464 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2646 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 46790805 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12566 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 381 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 72 48 470941724 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 77 77 47025 (C2) HDA temperature 28 52 60129542172 (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 123437360096481 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6799935063 (F2) Unknown 100 253 58928676454	93.5% Outstanding	Read 175 Write 151 Mixed 147 119% 158 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.25 88% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F3 DDR3 2400 C9 4x4GB 277 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	86.9% Excellent	MC Read 31.8 MC Write 32.5 MC Mixed 26.7 87% 30.3 GB/s	SC Read 22.3 SC Write 23.6 SC Mixed 27.7 70% 24.5 GB/s	Latency 43.5 92% 43.5 ns
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 113%

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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 - $150

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	2,304x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	1,184x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	420x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	789x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	341x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	307x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	270x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	201x
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 $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