Asus Z97-A-USB31

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 89.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	83.8% 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	96% 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	11.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150624
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 05 '16 at 04:48
Run Duration	283 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.9% Excellent	Memory 97.6 1-Core 136 2-Core 270 94% 168 Pts	4-Core 445 8-Core 629 68% 537 Pts	64-Core 697 43% 697 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6510 Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	83.8% Excellent	Lighting 108 Reflection 113 Parallax 102 88% 108 fps	MRender 94 Gravity 97.3 Splatting 88.8 76% 93.3 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandisk SII240G 500GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 107% 206GB free Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2642 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 26 (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 64 59 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 806981934	106% Outstanding	Read 502 Write 348 Mixed 356 89% 402 MB/s	4K Read 45.1 4K Write 89.5 4K Mixed 43.3 171% 59.3 MB/s	DQ Read 344 DQ Write 238 DQ Mixed 102 127% 228 MB/s
Poor: 106% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 107%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 125GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7341 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 161 (B1) Unknown 96 96 76 (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 58 51 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 34 (F1) Unknown 99 99 61459480836	96% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 403 Mixed 416 98% 443 MB/s	4K Read 45.8 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 29.3 161% 59 MB/s	DQ Read 47.7 DQ Write 114 DQ Mixed 29 37% 63.5 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 96% Great: 134%
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 106GB free Firmware: X31000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 10741 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 252 (A5) Unknown 100 100 416711181568 (A6) Unknown 100 100 4 (A7) Unknown 100 100 27 (A8) Unknown 100 100 24 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 14 (AE) Unknown 100 100 83 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 61 54 231929413671 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 6622878369286 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3256 (EA) Unknown 100 100 13379 (F1) Unknown 253 253 11108 (F2) Unknown 253 253 6635 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	78.1% Very good	Read 474 Write 213 Mixed 213 66% 300 MB/s	4K Read 34.5 4K Write 81.4 4K Mixed 17.9 118% 44.6 MB/s	DQ Read 317 DQ Write 223 DQ Mixed 32.9 89% 191 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 101%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$20 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 394GB free Firmware: KC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 2432 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1656 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 256426816 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 19013 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 471 (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 72 49 571605020 (C2) HDA temperature 28 51 55834574876 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 32 22 2432 (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 -63170378973560 (F1) Unknown 100 253 745137766 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3421986716	67.8% Good	Read 120 Write 117 Mixed 101 84% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.24 4K Mixed 0.76 137% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 67.8% Great: 88%
Hitachi HDS721075CLA332 750GB-$190 3,719 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 147GB free Firmware: JP3OA3BF Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 97 77 327682 (02) Throughput performance 134 100 101 (03) Spinup time 120 100 25790579003 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2173 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 132 38 34 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 10552 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1430 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (B9) Unknown 99 99 131071 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 32900531 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 61 337969182 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 2312 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2312 (C2) HDA temperature 200 153 167504445470 (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 200 200 0	45.7% Average	Read 81 Write 78.4 Mixed 100 66% 86.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 0.86 4K Mixed 0.25 69% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 45.7% Great: 76%
WD My Passport 0820 2TB 18,744 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 679GB free, PID 0820 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	32% Below average	Read 70.9 Write 77.7 Mixed 55.8 87% 68.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.19 60% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 32% Great: 42%
UFD 3.0 Silicon-Power32G 32GB 498 User benchmarks, average bench 22% 26GB free, PID 1000 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	27.2% Poor	Read 146 Write 6.69 Mixed 67.4 72% 73.5 MB/s	4K Read 7.15 4K Write 0.94 4K Mixed 0.73 83% 2.94 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 27.2% Great: 33%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 2133 C9 4x4GB 1,392 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 2133 MHz clocked @ 2176 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	78.3% Very good	MC Read 27.5 MC Write 29.3 MC Mixed 24.9 78% 27.2 GB/s	SC Read 16.9 SC Write 24.8 SC Mixed 25.1 64% 22.3 GB/s	Latency 47.6 84% 47.6 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 82%

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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	865x
Core i5-4690KIntel $50Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	252x
Core i7-4790Intel $132Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	125x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	209x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	130x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	82x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	93x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	92x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	39x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	70x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	67x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	46x

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Intel Core i5-13600K $249	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	WD Black SN850X M.2 1TB $79
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