Asus SABERTOOTH Z87

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 88.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	79.3% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	98.8% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 (all builds)
Memory	25.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140818
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 14 '17 at 10:25
Run Duration	200 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing as expected (53^rd 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 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	88.5% Excellent	Memory 96.2 1-Core 125 2-Core 248 88% 156 Pts	4-Core 436 8-Core 649 68% 543 Pts	64-Core 655 40% 655 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2126 MHz, MLim: 2122 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing below potential (50^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	79.3% Very good	Lighting 95.5 Reflection 95.8 Parallax 78.9 78% 90.1 fps	MRender 99.3 Gravity 106 Splatting 96.9 82% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 79.3% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 352GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2502 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 289 (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 74 63 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 60 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3542065548	101% Outstanding	Read 505 Write 407 Mixed 419 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 43.4 4K Write 86.7 4K Mixed 25.6 144% 51.9 MB/s	DQ Read 332 DQ Write 262 DQ Mixed 113 135% 236 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 133%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 319GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5314 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 593 (B1) Unknown 99 99 12 (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 74 53 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 55 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13662018981	98.8% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 405 Mixed 413 98% 443 MB/s	4K Read 41.7 4K Write 83 4K Mixed 25.1 139% 49.9 MB/s	DQ Read 310 DQ Write 265 DQ Mixed 25 90% 200 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 98.8% Great: 134%
OCZ AGILITY3 90GB 1,142 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 74GB free Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 4 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 -11570641879373 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2515 (AB) Unknown 0 0 2 (AC) Unknown 0 0 2 (AE) Unknown 0 0 92 (B1) Unknown 0 0 8 (B5) Unknown 0 0 2 (B6) Unknown 0 0 2 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 4 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 10876 (EA) Unknown 0 0 14219 (F1) Unknown 0 0 14219 (F2) Unknown 0 0 15431	45.3% Average	Read 207 Write 96.2 Mixed 115 31% 139 MB/s	4K Read 22.7 4K Write 86.2 4K Mixed 14.5 99% 41.1 MB/s	DQ Read 27 DQ Write 86.9 DQ Mixed 30.3 31% 48.1 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 45.3% Great: 55%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$60 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 172080808 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 75 75 26437 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 55025632 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4768 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 75 75 26437 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 47 403832856 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 39 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 87 87 27814 (C2) HDA temperature 24 53 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 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -63247688396232 (F1) Unknown 100 253 10084493443 (F2) Unknown 100 253 670064139980	97.7% Outstanding	Read 176 Write 164 Mixed 155 124% 165 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.2 83% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 97.7% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 232101200 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1835 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 43478941 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12388 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1686 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 75 59 420610073 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 175 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 58 58 84567 (C2) HDA temperature 25 41 47244640281 (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 -22733261891160 (F1) Unknown 100 253 14028533694 (F2) Unknown 100 253 44547099275	77% Very good	Read 134 Write 134 Mixed 129 100% 133 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 0.98 4K Mixed 0.36 91% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 77% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1866 C9 4x8GB 1,487 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	69.1% Good	MC Read 24 MC Write 25.6 MC Mixed 21.3 68% 23.6 GB/s	SC Read 19.1 SC Write 23.2 SC Mixed 22.4 62% 21.6 GB/s	Latency 53.4 75% 53.4 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 69.1% Great: 86%

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Gaming 61%

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Desktop 80%

Aircraft carrier

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	169x

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 $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	62x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 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: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $540

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 $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $64	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16