Asus Z87-K

Performance Results


Gaming 126% UFO	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 98% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (82nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 18 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 90.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	142% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	120% 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	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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-K (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20130407
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 22 '17 at 21:33
Run Duration	157 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (82^nd 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 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.1% Outstanding	Memory 94.6 1-Core 124 2-Core 251 88% 157 Pts	4-Core 495 8-Core 493 66% 494 Pts	64-Core 496 31% 496 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 90.1% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696); ftw3 gaming CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	142% Outstanding	Lighting 203 Reflection 218 Parallax 216 166% 213 fps	MRender 137 Gravity 192 Splatting 136 126% 155 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 142% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 110GB free Firmware: EXT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10951 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1826 (B1) Unknown 96 96 41 (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 75 61 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 20 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8523119534	82.9% Excellent	Read 508 Write 328 Mixed 335 86% 390 MB/s	4K Read 42.9 4K Write 75.4 4K Mixed 16 125% 44.7 MB/s	DQ Read 231 DQ Write 76 DQ Mixed 38.7 59% 115 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 82.9% Great: 108%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 81GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6612 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1108 (B1) Unknown 99 99 15 (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 71 62 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 8 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6147685419	120% Outstanding	Read 520 Write 418 Mixed 423 101% 453 MB/s	4K Read 51.1 4K Write 119 4K Mixed 44.7 197% 71.4 MB/s	DQ Read 363 DQ Write 280 DQ Mixed 101 135% 248 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 124%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 173 8250 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5573 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1288 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1105 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 13460 (C2) HDA temperature 126 114 26 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	72.9% Very good	Read 125 Write 129 Mixed 126 95% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.85 4K Write 2.45 4K Mixed 0.3 114% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 72.9% Great: 83%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 71GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 72782000 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 12194 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 60116109 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14162 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2250 (B7) Unknown 92 92 8 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 29 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 76 61 21878931480 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 525 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 79 79 42470 (C2) HDA temperature 24 40 -140737488355304 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 24 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -38744899974808 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2889482146 (F2) Unknown 100 253 5277081160	106% Outstanding	Read 195 Write 172 Mixed 147 128% 172 MB/s	4K Read 0.91 4K Write 6.41 4K Mixed 0.43 204% 2.58 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 10,062 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	64.1% Good	MC Read 22.5 MC Write 23 MC Mixed 20.4 63% 22 GB/s	SC Read 16.7 SC Write 21.9 SC Mixed 20.6 56% 19.7 GB/s	Latency 58.2 69% 58.2 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 64.1% Great: 63%

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Gaming 41%

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Desktop 77%

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Workstation 32%

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Motherboard: Asus Z87-K - $134

CPU
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	509x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	438x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	361x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	169x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	140x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	137x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	79x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	58x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	55x

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	84x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	63x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	50x

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Value: 75% - Very good

Total price: $412

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