Asus Z87-PRO

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 95%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Boot Drive	80.6% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (19%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-PRO (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors, 3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140818
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	Aug 26 '17 at 06:54
Run Duration	196 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	19%

PC Performing as expected (52^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, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95% Outstanding	Memory 97.4 1-Core 136 2-Core 274 94% 169 Pts	4-Core 534 8-Core 536 72% 535 Pts	64-Core 525 32% 525 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 95% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 780-$329 50,279 User benchmarks, average bench 45% EVGA(3842 2784) 3GB CLim: 1306 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 382.5 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 41% Great: 49%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 806GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 17457 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 296 (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 52 33 48 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 27 (F1) Unknown 99 99 64277404617	80.6% Excellent	Read 508 Write 404 Mixed 422 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 33.8 4K Write 66.8 4K Mixed 20.8 113% 40.5 MB/s	DQ Read 32.2 DQ Write 69.4 DQ Mixed 21.8 25% 41.1 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 80.6% Great: 133%
WD Black 4TB (2012)-$323 4,113 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 197GB free Firmware: 01.01L01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 146 134 11666 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1606 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 57 57 31864 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 708 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 62 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1543 (C2) HDA temperature 105 77 47 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	64.7% Good	Read 136 Write 89.1 Mixed 95.5 80% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 2.76 4K Mixed 0.5 129% 1.26 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 64.7% Great: 93%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 193GB free Firmware: 1AA01110 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 5 25 (03) Spinup time 76 76 7960 (04) Start/Stop count 87 87 13537 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 2 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 42808 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 3 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3076 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 5 21 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 18338 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 40 589430819 (C2) HDA temperature 65 37 59893941927971 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 69392 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	49.6% Average	Read 83.8 Write 88.9 Mixed 76.8 62% 83.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 2.07 4K Mixed 0.47 109% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 49.6% Great: 62%
Hitachi HDS721010KLA330 1TB-$47 10,943 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 73GB free Firmware: GKAOAB0A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 130 130 150 (03) Spinup time 103 103 55879008934 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 30303 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 132 132 33 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 57211 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3031 (C0) Power-off retract count 66 66 41582 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 66 66 41582 (C2) HDA temperature 142 142 300648759338 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	32.4% Below average	Read 66 Write 46.4 Mixed 63.7 44% 58.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.39 97% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 32.4% Great: 46%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 20,216 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	88.2% Excellent	MC Read 31.9 MC Write 33.6 MC Mixed 28.6 90% 31.4 GB/s	SC Read 20.5 SC Write 24.5 SC Mixed 26.4 68% 23.8 GB/s	Latency 48.5 82% 48.5 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 88.2% Great: 86%

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Gaming 10%

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Desktop 69%

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Workstation 9%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Asus Z87-PRO - $225

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	1,087x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	422x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	234x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	170x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	158x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	157x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	105x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	100x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	97x

RAM
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	58x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	51x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	51x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $454

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