Asus Z87-EXPERT

Performance Results


Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 9% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (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 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 78.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	4.18% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	73% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 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.

High background CPU (23%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-EXPERT (all builds)
Memory	9.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20130819
Uptime	4.2 Days
Run Date	Mar 14 '17 at 02:49
Run Duration	320 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	23%

PC Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E3-1275 v3 384 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	78.4% Very good	Memory 90.5 1-Core 114 2-Core 206 79% 137 Pts	4-Core 361 8-Core 502 54% 432 Pts	64-Core 563 35% 563 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 78.4% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD Graphics P4600 2,141 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Asus(1043 8534) 2.2GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 9.18.10.3186 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	4.18% Terrible	Lighting 4.47 Reflection 6.88 Parallax 5.09 4% 5.48 fps	MRender 8.86 Gravity 2.5 Splatting 7.57 5% 6.31 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 4.18% Great: 4%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 520 Series 240GB-$139 12,595 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 84GB free (System drive) Firmware: 400i 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 0 0 -75488344275835 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 677 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 372 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 372 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 376550 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 41 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 376550 (F2) Unknown 100 100 262434 (F9) Unknown 100 100 20385	73% Very good	Read 480 Write 236 Mixed 214 68% 310 MB/s	4K Read 25.3 4K Write 86.8 4K Mixed 16.6 106% 42.9 MB/s	DQ Read 212 DQ Write 181 DQ Mixed 64.9 84% 153 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 73% Great: 95%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 479GB free Firmware: 07.00K07 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 6150 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9485 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 59 59 30514 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1990 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 92 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9469 (C2) HDA temperature 117 98 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 1 1 58037948 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	55.3% Above average	Read 106 Write 86.9 Mixed 63.6 64% 85.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 2.18 4K Mixed 0.44 115% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 55.3% Great: 76%
PNY USB 2.0 FD 16GB 2,737 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 14GB free, PID 007a Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	5.23% Terrible	Read 21.1 Write 4.59 Mixed 6.29 10% 10.6 MB/s	4K Read 4.92 4K Write 0.005 4K Mixed 0.004 19% 1.64 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 5.23% Great: 7%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown LIFETIMEMEMORY.COM 2x8GB 68 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1648 MHz Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	56.8% Above average	MC Read 21 MC Write 20.8 MC Mixed 17 56% 19.6 GB/s	SC Read 14.5 SC Write 19 SC Mixed 17.5 49% 17 GB/s	Latency 66.5 60% 66.5 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 56.8% Great: 61%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 44%

Speed boat

Desktop 80%

Battleship

Workstation 37%

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Motherboard: Asus Z87-EXPERT - $270

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	93x
Core i5-4670KIntel $127Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	25x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	25x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	19x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	18x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	16x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	16x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	11x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	10x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GBCorsairBench 50%, 20,728 samples	8x
Ripjaws DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 55%, 10,150 samples	7x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	7x

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Value: 79% - Very good

Total price: $637

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