Asus Z87-A

Performance Results


Gaming 13% Tree trunk	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 12% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 82.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	9% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	81.9% 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	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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-A (all builds)
Memory	11.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130701
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 26 '17 at 00:19
Run Duration	134 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing above expectations (70^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 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	82.5% Excellent	Memory 93.5 1-Core 109 2-Core 209 80% 137 Pts	4-Core 386 8-Core 568 60% 477 Pts	64-Core 553 34% 553 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 82.5% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 650-$112 69,673 User benchmarks, average bench 8% Zotac(19DA 2263) 2GB CLim: 1058 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	9% Terrible	Lighting 10 Reflection 9.42 Parallax 11.8 8% 10.4 fps	MRender 13.6 Gravity 12.1 Splatting 13.1 11% 12.9 fps
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 9% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 49GB free Firmware: EXT0CB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 15197 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 987 (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 72 50 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 78 (F1) Unknown 99 99 598231002	93.7% Outstanding	Read 503 Write 347 Mixed 354 89% 402 MB/s	4K Read 42.9 4K Write 65.6 4K Mixed 26.8 134% 45.1 MB/s	DQ Read 357 DQ Write 213 DQ Mixed 83.2 116% 218 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 93.7% Great: 118%
Adata XPG SX900 256GB-$164 6,726 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 8GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.0.7a Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 114 80342214 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 24567212952057 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1786 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 191 (B1) Unknown 0 0 7 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 35 53 73017917475 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 80342214 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 80342214 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 80342214 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 25783 (EA) Unknown 0 0 17088 (F1) Unknown 0 0 17088 (F2) Unknown 0 0 33662	81.9% Excellent	Read 488 Write 229 Mixed 278 73% 332 MB/s	4K Read 33.5 4K Write 91.7 4K Mixed 21.7 127% 48.9 MB/s	DQ Read 291 DQ Write 214 DQ Mixed 50.5 93% 185 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 90%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$34 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 585GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 186410032 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14999 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 8614132663 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 16314 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1861 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 62 521797662 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 345 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 77 77 47403 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 64424509470 (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 -47433618815589 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3953153993 (F2) Unknown 100 253 5936733841	96.3% Outstanding	Read 175 Write 161 Mixed 157 124% 164 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.35 89% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 96.3% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GB 48,796 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	59.4% Above average	MC Read 20.9 MC Write 21.9 MC Mixed 18.8 59% 20.5 GB/s	SC Read 13.9 SC Write 19.7 SC Mixed 18.4 50% 17.3 GB/s	Latency 61 66% 61 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 59.4% Great: 63%

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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