Asus SABERTOOTH Z87

Performance Results


Gaming 39% Jet ski	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 34% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 69.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	50.6% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	103% 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 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.

Very high background CPU (87%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 (all builds)
Memory	10.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors, 1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140818
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 13 '17 at 12:56
Run Duration	198 Seconds
Run User	RUS-User
Background CPU	87%

PC Performing as expected (51^st 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 Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	69.2% Good	Memory 82.8 1-Core 112 2-Core 200 76% 132 Pts	4-Core 301 8-Core 514 49% 407 Pts	64-Core 574 36% 574 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 69.2% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Asus(1043 8508) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 385.54 Performing below potential (76^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	50.6% Above average	Lighting 62.4 Reflection 65.3 Parallax 60.2 51% 62.6 fps	MRender 71.5 Gravity 58.9 Splatting 55.7 50% 62 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 50.6% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 51GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2128 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 730 (B1) Unknown 98 98 24 (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 64 47 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 19 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11114656636	103% Outstanding	Read 500 Write 405 Mixed 169 79% 358 MB/s	4K Read 40.2 4K Write 75.2 4K Mixed 41.8 154% 52.4 MB/s	DQ Read 274 DQ Write 196 DQ Mixed 96 109% 189 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 124%
Toshiba THNSNH128GCST 128GB 1,729 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 37GB free Firmware: HTGAN102 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 11560 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 5743 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 186 186 3358698573314 (AE) Unknown 199 199 1103809896828 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 252 (C2) HDA temperature 70 56 188979609630 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 284674 (F2) Unknown 100 100 519510 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	96.9% Outstanding	Read 493 Write 416 Mixed 357 94% 422 MB/s	4K Read 25.8 4K Write 89.4 4K Mixed 40.7 139% 52 MB/s	DQ Read 259 DQ Write 129 DQ Mixed 94.2 96% 161 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 96.9% Great: 100%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 30GB free Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	271% Outstanding	Read 2,488 Write 1,241 Mixed 1,350 372% 1,693 MB/s	4K Read 65.5 4K Write 160 4K Mixed 44.8 241% 90.1 MB/s	DQ Read 890 DQ Write 239 DQ Mixed 261 271% 463 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 271% Great: 236%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$50 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 82GB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 174 6191 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1876 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4494 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1678 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 33 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8786 (C2) HDA temperature 121 105 29 (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	48.3% Average	Read 85.6 Write 82.5 Mixed 82.1 63% 83.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.98 4K Mixed 0.23 81% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 48.3% Great: 88%
Seagate Constellation CS 2TB 576 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 40GB free Firmware: CN01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 78 63 65019808 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3890 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 76727091 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8014 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3732 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 52 4800184350 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 210 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3900 (C2) HDA temperature 30 48 -140737488355298 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	78.4% Very good	Read 164 Write 110 Mixed 75.2 86% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 0.44 4K Mixed 0.26 63% 0.44 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 78.4% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 20,728 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (34^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	47.8% Average	MC Read 17.1 MC Write 17.5 MC Mixed 15.3 48% 16.6 GB/s	SC Read 9.6 SC Write 15.1 SC Mixed 15.6 38% 13.4 GB/s	Latency 75.5 53% 75.5 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 47.8% Great: 62%

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Gaming 61%

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 50%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 - $193

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	845x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	173x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	169x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	124x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	106x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	84x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	62x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	56x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	53x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	40x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	39x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GBCorsairBench 55%, 18,444 samples	34x

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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