Network

After doing the USB benchmarks and seeing how far ahead the Z97-A was in performance I was a little disappointed when I ran our network benchmark. Asus did include an Intel NIC but its performance wasn’t anything to write home about, especially when compared to the Gaming 5. This is still worlds above wireless and almost no one will notice the difference in day to day usage, but this is the only documented benchmark where the Z97-A performed considerably less than the Gaming 5 (audio testing didn’t have a benchmark).