Asus Z87-A

Performance Results


Gaming 52% Yacht	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 41% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 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 81.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	60.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	102% 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	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit färger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131029
Uptime	2.7 Days
Run Date	Mar 27 '17 at 10:31
Run Duration	123 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4670K-$62 128,482 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	81.8% Excellent	Memory 90.7 1-Core 113 2-Core 220 81% 141 Pts	4-Core 423 8-Core 417 56% 420 Pts	64-Core 420 26% 420 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 81.8% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85A4) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	60.7% Good	Lighting 76.3 Reflection 75 Parallax 65.3 62% 72.2 fps	MRender 71.8 Gravity 68.9 Splatting 70.7 58% 70.5 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 60.7% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Vector 150 120GB-$89 1,360 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 50GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 10 10 10 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 11204 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2195 (AB) Unknown 80 80 40285264 (AE) Unknown 100 100 60 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 10 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (D0) Spin buzz 100 100 343 (D2) Unknown 100 100 34 (E0) Load friction 100 100 1 (E9) Unknown 89 89 89 (F1) Unknown 100 100 9318 (F2) Unknown 100 100 5953 (F9) Unknown 100 100 531072509	102% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 418 Mixed 453 103% 462 MB/s	4K Read 25.5 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 32.3 137% 55.5 MB/s	DQ Read 306 DQ Write 351 DQ Mixed 87.4 133% 248 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 100%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$64 143,477 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 408GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 143 128 3833 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4864 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10381 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2123 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 50 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 133 133 201840 (C2) HDA temperature 114 102 29 (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	60.1% Good	Read 106 Write 103 Mixed 107 80% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.95 4K Write 2.31 4K Mixed 0.28 114% 1.18 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 60.1% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ares DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 4,003 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (70^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	54.6% Above average	MC Read 19 MC Write 19.9 MC Mixed 16.5 53% 18.5 GB/s	SC Read 15.2 SC Write 19.9 SC Mixed 17.9 50% 17.7 GB/s	Latency 66.2 60% 66.2 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 54.6% Great: 63%

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

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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	833x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	751x
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	188x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	101x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	91x
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	68x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $631

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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 $40	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