Asus Z87-A

Performance Results


Gaming 109% UFO	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 89% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 85.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	129% 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	113% 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 (58%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-A (all builds)
Memory	29 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130701
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 12 '17 at 17:06
Run Duration	306 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	58%

PC Performing as expected (58^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 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	85.6% Excellent	Memory 96.2 1-Core 114 2-Core 230 84% 147 Pts	4-Core 407 8-Core 573 62% 490 Pts	64-Core 575 36% 575 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85F1) CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	129% Outstanding	Lighting 179 Reflection 199 Parallax 178 146% 185 fps	MRender 130 Gravity 174 Splatting 125 116% 143 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 129% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 310GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1447 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 48 (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 66 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 12 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1250693444	113% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 411 Mixed 421 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 39.7 4K Write 93.7 4K Mixed 48.4 172% 60.6 MB/s	DQ Read 360 DQ Write 273 DQ Mixed 128 147% 254 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 134%
WD Green 1.5TB (2010)-$170 41,439 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 551GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 3014 (03) Spinup time 181 174 5916 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7524 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 63 63 27317 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3457 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 423 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 81 81 359220 (C2) HDA temperature 119 102 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 196 196 1067 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 198 198 504 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 6 (C8) Write error rate 195 194 1178	4.35% Terrible	Read 7.35 Write 7.81 Mixed 4.2 5% 6.45 MB/s	4K Read 0.002 4K Write 0.16 4K Mixed 0.002 3% 0.05 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 4.35% Great: 63%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 2TB 13,609 User benchmarks, average bench 146% 356GB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	202% Outstanding	Read 542 Write 164 Mixed 159 212% 288 MB/s	4K Read 0.98 4K Write 3.23 4K Mixed 0.8 189% 1.67 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 202% Great: 213%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$88 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 21GB free Firmware: CC1J Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 87 116133891 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 15003 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 14 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 87447373 (09) Power-on hours count 51 51 43414 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 553 (0C) Power cycle count 91 37 9636 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 525 (BC) Unknown 100 98 42950328331 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 410 (BE) vendor-specific 68 45 538640416 (C2) HDA temperature 32 55 77309411360 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 26 19 116133891 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 2 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 7 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 18270790900184 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3741301614 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2250388218	42.9% Average	Read 71.5 Write 78 Mixed 65.3 54% 71.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.28 73% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 42.9% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLE8G3D1869DE1TX0. 4x8GB 587 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	67.8% Good	MC Read 24.2 MC Write 25.1 MC Mixed 21.1 67% 23.5 GB/s	SC Read 14.7 SC Write 21.4 SC Mixed 22.2 56% 19.4 GB/s	Latency 53.3 75% 53.3 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 67.8% Great: 73%

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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	749x
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	187x

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	67x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $631

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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) $30	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