Asus Z87-WS

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 84.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	83.9% 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	86.9% 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.

Very high background CPU (41%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-WS (all builds)
Memory	28.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130503
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 29 '17 at 03:09
Run Duration	149 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	41%

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PC Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4771-$129 11,180 User benchmarks, average bench 73% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	84.5% Excellent	Memory 91.2 1-Core 114 2-Core 221 81% 142 Pts	4-Core 423 8-Core 586 64% 504 Pts	64-Core 584 36% 584 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 5173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	83.9% Excellent	Lighting 105 Reflection 115 Parallax 97 86% 106 fps	MRender 97.1 Gravity 94.9 Splatting 101 80% 97.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 83.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Asus RAIDR Express PCIe 1,224 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 152GB free (System drive) Firmware: MV.R00-0 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value	86.9% Excellent	Read 692 Write 397 Mixed 405 110% 498 MB/s	4K Read 24.4 4K Write 64.4 4K Mixed 10.4 84% 33.1 MB/s	DQ Read 224 DQ Write 271 DQ Mixed 76.4 105% 190 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 101%
Seagate ST2000NM0011 2TB-$60 4,076 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 867GB free Firmware: SN03 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 82 63 172414497 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5146 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 37 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 12924218910 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 24823 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 294 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 54 571867166 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 40 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 84 84 33728 (C2) HDA temperature 30 46 21474836510 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 118 99 172414497 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	65.9% Good	Read 116 Write 114 Mixed 98.2 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 1.95 4K Mixed 0.52 129% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 86%
Seagate ST2000NM0011 2TB-$60 4,076 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 16GB free Firmware: SN02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 77 64 54951058 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 969 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 62 60 1774275 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 5028 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 60 (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 75 56 571932697 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 10 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 23 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1184 (C2) HDA temperature 25 44 25769803801 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 113 100 54951058 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	84.8% Excellent	Read 150 Write 146 Mixed 131 107% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.89 4K Write 2.28 4K Mixed 0.56 141% 1.24 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 84.8% Great: 86%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 994102 4x8GB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	58.1% Above average	MC Read 21.6 MC Write 21.2 MC Mixed 16.6 57% 19.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.1 SC Write 20.5 SC Mixed 19.7 54% 18.8 GB/s	Latency 65.5 61% 65.5 ns
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 58.1% Great: 64%

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Typical Z87-WS Builds (Compare 77 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 29%

Raft

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 24%

Surfboard

Motherboard: Asus Z87-WS

CPU
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	22x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	15x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	15x

GPU
R9 280XAMD $500Bench 35%, 94,130 samples	7x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	7x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	6x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	4x
Raid 1 Volume 500GBIntelBench 146%, 1,321 samples	4x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	4x

RAM
CM3X2G1600C9 4x2GBCorsairBench 50%, 173 samples	4x
HMT41GU6MFR8C-PB 4x8GBHynixBench 60%, 1,419 samples	4x
9905403-848.A00LF 2x8GBKingstonBench 58%, 10 samples	4x

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Value: 28% - Poor

Total price: $655

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