Asus SABERTOOTH Z87

Performance Results


Gaming 102% UFO	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 85% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 89.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	114% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	91.7% 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 SABERTOOTH Z87 (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131213
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 25 '16 at 09:10
Run Duration	158 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing above expectations (66^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)	89.2% Excellent	Memory 95.2 1-Core 118 2-Core 248 87% 154 Pts	4-Core 449 8-Core 651 69% 550 Pts	64-Core 650 40% 650 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 89.2% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 1B80) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 375.95 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	114% Outstanding	Lighting 153 Reflection 159 Parallax 135 125% 149 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 147 Splatting 113 102% 126 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 89GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB0Q 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 98 98 9214 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1691 (B1) Unknown 98 98 14 (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 71 60 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 55 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12812348672	91.7% Outstanding	Read 485 Write 338 Mixed 352 87% 391 MB/s	4K Read 41 4K Write 77.5 4K Mixed 22.8 132% 47.1 MB/s	DQ Read 366 DQ Write 221 DQ Mixed 83.2 118% 223 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 91.7% Great: 118%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 61GB free Firmware: EXT0BB0Q 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 98 98 9168 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1668 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 75 62 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 45 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1136990291	91.8% Outstanding	Read 485 Write 338 Mixed 354 87% 392 MB/s	4K Read 39 4K Write 80.3 4K Mixed 23.1 131% 47.5 MB/s	DQ Read 369 DQ Write 232 DQ Mixed 84.2 121% 228 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 91.8% Great: 118%
Seagate NAS HDD 4TB-$145 4,962 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 1TB free Firmware: SC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 153000384 (03) Spinup time 95 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 923 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 61 60 51558153574 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 763 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 308 (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 73 62 454688795 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 7 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 923 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 64424509467 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	64.5% Good	Read 151 Write 74 Mixed 141 93% 122 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 1.31 4K Mixed 0.14 53% 0.59 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 64.5% Great: 100%
Seagate NAS HDD 4TB-$145 4,962 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 425GB free Firmware: SC46 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 117 99 149972296 (03) Spinup time 95 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1032 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2033590 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 745 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 305 (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 76 62 404160536 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 7 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1032 (C2) HDA temperature 24 40 64424509464 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	92% Outstanding	Read 175 Write 146 Mixed 138 115% 153 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.15 68% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 92% Great: 100%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GB 7,967 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2000 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	72.6% Very good	MC Read 26.2 MC Write 27 MC Mixed 22.3 72% 25.2 GB/s	SC Read 19.9 SC Write 22.7 SC Mixed 23.8 63% 22.1 GB/s	Latency 56.5 71% 56.5 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 72.6% Great: 79%

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 50%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 - $193

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	847x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	173x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	170x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	124x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	106x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	85x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	62x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	56x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	54x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	40x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	39x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GBCorsairBench 55%, 18,444 samples	34x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $535

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 $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16