Asus Z87-A

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	108% 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	85.3% 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 Z87-A (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140128
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 07 '16 at 17:11
Run Duration	142 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	3%

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PC Performing above expectations (68^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 (97^th percentile)	84.8% Excellent	Memory 90.3 1-Core 124 2-Core 241 86% 152 Pts	4-Core 427 8-Core 626 66% 527 Pts	64-Core 644 40% 644 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 84.8% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3717) CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.19 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 144 Reflection 144 Parallax 142 117% 143 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 135 Splatting 109 97% 120 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 82GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3237 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 850 (B1) Unknown 98 98 16 (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 68 58 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 47 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9324991622	85.3% Excellent	Read 504 Write 348 Mixed 353 89% 402 MB/s	4K Read 43.3 4K Write 79.8 4K Mixed 25 140% 49.3 MB/s	DQ Read 44.7 DQ Write 87.1 DQ Mixed 22 29% 51.2 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 118%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 289GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 90263747 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6288 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 21748719414 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13506 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3086 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 156 (BC) Unknown 100 99 42951442460 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 59 521469983 (C2) HDA temperature 31 41 51539607583 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 37 24 90263747 (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 2469606217083 (F1) Unknown 100 253 317290577 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1889920570	60.5% Good	Read 106 Write 105 Mixed 98.2 77% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.34 4K Mixed 0.42 98% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 60.5% Great: 68%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 116GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 232875240 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 907 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 24290183 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3249 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 818 (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 59 470941724 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 21 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 22596 (C2) HDA temperature 28 41 51539607580 (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 82338818032960 (F1) Unknown 100 253 18225011634 (F2) Unknown 100 253 17035375263	93.2% Outstanding	Read 164 Write 161 Mixed 126 112% 150 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 2.02 4K Mixed 0.28 104% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 93.2% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-038.A00LF 2x8GB 585 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	51.5% Above average	MC Read 17.8 MC Write 18.6 MC Mixed 15.8 50% 17.4 GB/s	SC Read 14.1 SC Write 18.8 SC Mixed 16.2 47% 16.4 GB/s	Latency 66.8 60% 66.8 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 51.5% Great: 54%

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Gaming 60%

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 50%

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Motherboard: Asus Z87-A - $299

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	832x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	749x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	345x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	237x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	206x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	187x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	101x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	90x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	87x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	83x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	71x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	67x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $631

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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