Asus Z87-A

Performance Results


Gaming 111% UFO	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 87% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 93.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	120% 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	48.5% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-A (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140603
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 29 '17 at 20:17
Run Duration	96 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (76^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 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.8% Outstanding	Memory 96 1-Core 133 2-Core 268 93% 166 Pts	4-Core 530 8-Core 527 71% 529 Pts	64-Core 531 33% 531 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 93.8% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3603) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing below potential (33^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	120% Outstanding	Lighting 160 Reflection 195 Parallax 185 130% 180 fps	MRender 129 Gravity 179 Splatting 119 115% 142 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 133%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ AGILITY3 180GB 435 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 13GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.22 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 106 106 14189727 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 48 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -110964775051057 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2893 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 314 (B1) Unknown 0 0 16 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 0 0 3372 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 14189727 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 48 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 14189727 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 14189727 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 20717 (EA) Unknown 0 0 19690 (F1) Unknown 0 0 19690 (F2) Unknown 0 0 21625	48.5% Average	Read 183 Write 117 Mixed 133 32% 144 MB/s	4K Read 20.1 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 10.9 106% 49.2 MB/s	DQ Read 78.3 DQ Write 97.5 DQ Mixed 33.6 40% 69.8 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 48.5% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 4x4GB 14,299 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	65.5% Good	MC Read 22.5 MC Write 23.4 MC Mixed 20.7 63% 22.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 23.8 SC Mixed 20.6 59% 20.8 GB/s	Latency 53.8 74% 53.8 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 65.5% Great: 64%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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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 $127Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	752x
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	102x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 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 $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