Asus SABERTOOTH Z87

Performance Results


Gaming 53% Yacht	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 45% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 89.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	55.2% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	50.2% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1280 x 720 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140818
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 17 '16 at 01:23
Run Duration	250 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing above expectations (76^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 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	89.7% Excellent	Memory 95.7 1-Core 136 2-Core 272 93% 168 Pts	4-Core 452 8-Core 675 70% 564 Pts	64-Core 695 43% 695 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 89.7% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 480-$75 261,163 User benchmarks, average bench 46% MSI(1462 3413) CLim: 1303 MHz, MLim: 2000 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 16.10.2 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	55.2% Above average	Lighting 70.1 Reflection 68.6 Parallax 88.2 57% 75.7 fps	MRender 69.2 Gravity 67 Splatting 55.8 52% 64 fps
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 55.2% Great: 53%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 525GB-$150 105,037 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 371GB free Firmware: M0CR021 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^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 100 100 231 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 39 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 3 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 74 64 154620002330 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 327338101 (F7) Unknown 100 100 10259315 (F8) Unknown 100 100 645613 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1934 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	62.2% Good	Read 346 Write 260 Mixed 253 64% 286 MB/s	4K Read 24.9 4K Write 52.8 4K Mixed 17.7 88% 31.8 MB/s	DQ Read 183 DQ Write 99.9 DQ Mixed 45.8 60% 109 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 62.2% Great: 99%
Corsair Force 3 180GB-$384 1,204 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 114GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 102 6329224 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 47614007453684 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1240 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 105 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (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 6329224 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 6329224 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 6329224 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 5495 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3612 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3612 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11340	50.2% Above average	Read 185 Write 111 Mixed 130 31% 142 MB/s	4K Read 23.4 4K Write 95.8 4K Mixed 13.2 103% 44.1 MB/s	DQ Read 158 DQ Write 134 DQ Mixed 26.4 52% 106 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 50.2% Great: 58%
Corsair Force 60GB 1,468 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 56GB free Firmware: 2.1b Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 99 99 2506344 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 84782654436728 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2010 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 78 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 27 54 73017983003 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 99 99 2506344 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 1024 (EA) Unknown 0 0 768 (F1) Unknown 0 0 768 (F2) Unknown 0 0 6208	43.3% Average	Read 230 Write 69.4 Mixed 101 29% 133 MB/s	4K Read 25.3 4K Write 71.4 4K Mixed 12.6 92% 36.4 MB/s	DQ Read 101 DQ Write 46.8 DQ Mixed 26 32% 57.9 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 43.3% Great: 51%
WD Blue 1TB (2010)-$128 11,448 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 683GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 171 171 4408 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9681 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 16664 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2540 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 226 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9454 (C2) HDA temperature 120 101 27 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	67.6% Good	Read 131 Write 105 Mixed 60.1 73% 98.5 MB/s	4K Read 1.16 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.49 132% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 74%
Fujitsu MHZ2160BH G2 160GB-$80 1,995 User benchmarks, average bench 23% 62GB free Firmware: 00000009 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 137077 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 30015488 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 8687 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 8589934592000 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 775 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 10420 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1568 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 392 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 24699 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 210454577180 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 363 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 452067328 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 253 2 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 2644 (CB) Run out cancel 100 100 429518028307 (F0) Head flying hours 200 200 0	31.9% Below average	Read 56.3 Write 54.6 Mixed 38.3 37% 49.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.39 93% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 31.9% Great: 34%
SAMSUNG HD103SI 1TB 19 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 831GB free, PID 0539 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	37% Below average	Read 96.4 Write 84.2 Mixed 17.9 76% 66.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.29 63% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 37% Great: 42%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 19,522 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	63.1% Good	MC Read 21.7 MC Write 22.5 MC Mixed 19.7 61% 21.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 23.8 SC Mixed 20.1 58% 20.3 GB/s	Latency 55.1 73% 55.1 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 63.1% Great: 63%

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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	845x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	173x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	169x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	124x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	106x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	84x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	62x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	56x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	53x

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: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $540

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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