Asus SABERTOOTH Z87

Performance Results


Gaming 62% Destroyer	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 52% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 94.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	60.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	88.3% 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, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 (all builds)
Memory	14.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140818
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 17 '17 at 02:15
Run Duration	134 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (75^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.5% Outstanding	Memory 96.9 1-Core 126 2-Core 260 90% 161 Pts	4-Core 499 8-Core 701 75% 600 Pts	64-Core 679 42% 679 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 94.5% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 780-Ti-$410 30,815 User benchmarks, average bench 53% Zotac(19DA 1314) 3GB CLim: 1368 MHz, MLim: 1850 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	60.9% Good	Lighting 76.3 Reflection 71.4 Parallax 91.8 62% 79.8 fps	MRender 84.1 Gravity 83.5 Splatting 53.9 58% 73.8 fps
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 59%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 750GB-$160 24,471 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 217GB free Firmware: M0CR040 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 38 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 574 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3 (AE) Unknown 100 100 58 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 75 58 180389609497 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 3317640017 (F7) Unknown 100 100 103832786 (F8) Unknown 100 100 33943577 (B4) Unknown 0 0 3580 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	81.8% Excellent	Read 489 Write 341 Mixed 323 85% 384 MB/s	4K Read 28.9 4K Write 93.7 4K Mixed 27.6 129% 50.1 MB/s	DQ Read 29.2 DQ Write 96.3 DQ Mixed 15.9 26% 47.1 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 81.8% Great: 104%
Crucial MX200 250GB-$134 26,364 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 211GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU04 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 276 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 932 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 42 (AE) Unknown 100 100 123 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2580 (B7) Unknown 100 100 152 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 71 53 201864577053 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 7227274940 (F7) Unknown 100 100 226408887 (F8) Unknown 100 100 209155067	88.3% Excellent	Read 528 Write 399 Mixed 414 99% 447 MB/s	4K Read 34.1 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 20.9 136% 54.6 MB/s	DQ Read 34.5 DQ Write 116 DQ Mixed 20.6 32% 57.1 MB/s
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 88.3% Great: 113%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$40 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 931GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 173 4275 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3260 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5314 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1798 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 25 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3234 (C2) HDA temperature 105 100 42 (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 1	75.7% Very good	Read 137 Write 127 Mixed 118 96% 127 MB/s	4K Read 1.12 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.6 154% 1.31 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 75.7% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 2,290 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	79.3% Very good	MC Read 28.8 MC Write 29 MC Mixed 25.3 79% 27.7 GB/s	SC Read 19.3 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 25.6 66% 23.1 GB/s	Latency 50.8 79% 50.8 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 79.3% Great: 63%

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Gaming 61%

Destroyer

Desktop 80%

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Workstation 50%

Yacht

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 $94Bench 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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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $540

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