Asus GRYPHON Z87

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	87.6% 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	118% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 (54%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus GRYPHON Z87 (all builds)
Memory	28.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140815
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 28 '17 at 12:32
Run Duration	217 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	54%

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PC Performing above expectations (77^th 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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	88.1% Excellent	Memory 84.5 1-Core 131 2-Core 264 88% 160 Pts	4-Core 495 8-Core 703 75% 599 Pts	64-Core 719 44% 719 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 88.1% 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: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	87.6% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 115 Parallax 100 90% 109 fps	MRender 97.6 Gravity 103 Splatting 102 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$210 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 315GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2994 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 472 (B1) Unknown 99 99 54 (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 64 53 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 78 (F1) Unknown 99 99 34256533796	118% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 458 Mixed 508 110% 493 MB/s	4K Read 34.9 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 48.8 174% 65 MB/s	DQ Read 377 DQ Write 338 DQ Mixed 166 177% 294 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 286GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 892 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 160 (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 68 62 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 33 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3742775457	117% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 385 Mixed 413 97% 436 MB/s	4K Read 44.7 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 52.5 189% 66.2 MB/s	DQ Read 374 DQ Write 284 DQ Mixed 132 152% 263 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 133%
WD WD10EACS-00ZJB0 1TB 28,352 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 418GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 163 161 6825 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2510 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10295 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1116 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 306 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2506 (C2) HDA temperature 120 102 30 (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	48.4% Average	Read 86 Write 82.3 Mixed 76 61% 81.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 0.32 106% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 48.4% Great: 51%
Lexar USB Flash Drive 16GB 398 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 13GB free, PID a83a Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	11.7% Very poor	Read 37.3 Write 12.5 Mixed 14.9 23% 21.6 MB/s	4K Read 5.17 4K Write 0.77 4K Mixed 0.74 71% 2.23 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 11.7% Great: 30%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 4x8GB 6,389 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	57.3% Above average	MC Read 21.3 MC Write 21 MC Mixed 16.2 56% 19.5 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 20.7 56% 19.4 GB/s	Latency 72.6 55% 72.6 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 57.3% Great: 87%

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Gaming 40%

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Desktop 80%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

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Motherboard: Asus GRYPHON Z87 - $200

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	149x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	137x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	80x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	52x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	45x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	37x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	25x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	23x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	20x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	22x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	15x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	11x

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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $620

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $275	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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