Asus GRYPHON Z87

Performance Results


Gaming 14% Tree trunk	Desktop 80% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 84.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	10.7% 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	93.8% 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 GRYPHON Z87 (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140815
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 12 '17 at 23:23
Run Duration	132 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (68^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 (96^th percentile)	84.2% Excellent	Memory 91.6 1-Core 116 2-Core 220 82% 143 Pts	4-Core 417 8-Core 584 63% 501 Pts	64-Core 585 36% 585 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 84.2% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon R9 255 473 User benchmarks, average bench 10% MSI(1462 3040) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 22.19.662.4 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	10.7% Very poor	Lighting 12.4 Reflection 15.7 Parallax 16.8 10% 15 fps	MRender 13.1 Gravity 11.3 Splatting 17.8 12% 14.1 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 10.7% Great: 11%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 68GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB0Q 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 98 98 7905 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3218 (B1) Unknown 98 98 21 (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 57 53 43 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 461 (F1) Unknown 99 99 14987135126	93.8% Outstanding	Read 495 Write 349 Mixed 333 87% 392 MB/s	4K Read 42 4K Write 68.1 4K Mixed 25.9 133% 45.3 MB/s	DQ Read 369 DQ Write 238 DQ Mixed 82.4 121% 230 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 93.8% Great: 118%
Toshiba P300 3TB-$100 74,038 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 1.5TB free Firmware: MX6OACF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 141 141 66 (03) Spinup time 155 155 34382283147 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1875 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1263 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 597 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1875 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1875 (C2) HDA temperature 162 162 167504576549 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	96.5% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 166 Mixed 154 123% 163 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.81 4K Mixed 0.21 87% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 96.5% Great: 108%
Toshiba DT01ACA050 500GB-$25 163,843 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 126GB free Firmware: MS1OA750 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 141 141 72 (03) Spinup time 152 152 12894863510 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 6810 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 118 118 33 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 8082 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2914 (C0) Power-off retract count 95 95 6831 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 6831 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 163209543713 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	75.7% Very good	Read 128 Write 136 Mixed 112 94% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.18 77% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 75.7% Great: 103%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 19,207 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	52.2% Above average	MC Read 18.3 MC Write 18.4 MC Mixed 15.7 50% 17.5 GB/s	SC Read 14.8 SC Write 19.6 SC Mixed 17.4 49% 17.3 GB/s	Latency 64.8 62% 64.8 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 52.2% Great: 62%

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Gaming 40%

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 33%

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Motherboard: Asus GRYPHON Z87 - $200

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	150x
Core i5-4670KIntel $127Bench 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
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	38x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	25x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	23x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 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 $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 $179	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