Asus Z87-A

Performance Results


Gaming 33% Sail boat	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 27% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	30.6% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	74.6% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	20GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 20GB 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

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-A (all builds)
Memory	18.4 GB free of 20 GB @ 1.4 GHz
Display	1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140815
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 26 '17 at 18:53
Run Duration	111 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.3% Outstanding	Memory 96 1-Core 130 2-Core 249 90% 158 Pts	4-Core 487 8-Core 501 66% 494 Pts	64-Core 494 31% 494 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 90.3% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 285-$189 6,276 User benchmarks, average bench 32% Sapphire(174B E305) 2GB CLim: 928 MHz, MLim: 1375 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 17.5.2 Performing below potential (37^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	30.6% Below average	Lighting 37 Reflection 48.3 Parallax 44.2 30% 43.2 fps	MRender 48 Gravity 33.3 Splatting 35.9 32% 39.1 fps
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 30.6% Great: 34%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB-$150 34,842 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 63GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13598 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 487 (B1) Unknown 95 95 172 (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 66 55 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 207 (F1) Unknown 99 99 18857407091	74.6% Very good	Read 505 Write 301 Mixed 317 83% 374 MB/s	4K Read 27.2 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 15.6 115% 48.4 MB/s	DQ Read 29.5 DQ Write 97.4 DQ Mixed 14.5 25% 47.1 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 110%
Hitachi HUA722010CLA330 1TB-$38 10,195 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 844GB free Firmware: JP4OA3EA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 65536 (02) Throughput performance 134 134 103 (03) Spinup time 126 126 25790382365 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 118 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 140 140 30 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 37631 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 112 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 163 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 163 (C2) HDA temperature 193 193 227634511903 (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 200 200 0	68.6% Good	Read 118 Write 122 Mixed 108 87% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.38 96% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 68.6% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMY16GX3M2A1866C9 0420 F3-14900CL9-2GBXM 0215 CMY16GX3M2A1866C9 0420 F3-14900CL9-2GBXM 20GB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 1400, 1800, 1400, 1800 MHz 8192, 2048, 8192, 2048 MB Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	71.5% Very good	MC Read 25.6 MC Write 26.3 MC Mixed 22.7 71% 24.9 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 22.4 60% 20.9 GB/s	Latency 53.9 74% 53.9 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 71.5% Great: 72%

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

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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 $178	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