Asus Z87-A

Performance Results


Gaming 94% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	103% 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	72.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

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Motherboard	Asus Z87-A (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140815
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Oct 17 '17 at 19:06
Run Duration	275 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing above expectations (65^th 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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.7% Outstanding	Memory 95.3 1-Core 128 2-Core 254 90% 159 Pts	4-Core 497 8-Core 502 67% 499 Pts	64-Core 503 31% 503 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 90.7% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 8592) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing below potential (61^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	103% Outstanding	Lighting 134 Reflection 144 Parallax 138 109% 139 fps	MRender 113 Gravity 130 Splatting 106 94% 116 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 83GB free (System drive) Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 8379 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1061 (A5) Unknown 100 100 558444512436 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 30 (A8) Unknown 100 100 38 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 15 (AE) Unknown 100 100 48 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 47 201864380446 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 5811141084489 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3536 (EA) Unknown 100 100 12572 (F1) Unknown 253 253 9347 (F2) Unknown 253 253 11324 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	72.8% Very good	Read 474 Write 168 Mixed 150 57% 264 MB/s	4K Read 30.1 4K Write 86.1 4K Mixed 17.3 113% 44.5 MB/s	DQ Read 308 DQ Write 177 DQ Mixed 40.6 84% 175 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 72.8% Great: 101%
SanDisk SSD 64GB-$56 3,862 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 21GB free Firmware: 2.0.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 557 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1989 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 112 (AE) Unknown 100 100 101 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 373 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 629 (F1) Unknown 100 100 118934094 (F2) Unknown 100 100 92066358	42.6% Average	Read 447 Write 198 Mixed 280 68% 308 MB/s	4K Read 17.9 4K Write 12.7 4K Mixed 5.5 41% 12 MB/s	DQ Read 31.3 DQ Write 12.5 DQ Mixed 7.07 9% 17 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 42.6% Great: 48%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$64 143,477 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 433GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 141 131 3950 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6958 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 16691 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1999 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 2066 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 129 129 214938 (C2) HDA temperature 116 100 27 (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	67.4% Good	Read 127 Write 108 Mixed 112 87% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 2.44 4K Mixed 0.16 91% 1.09 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 67.4% Great: 85%
WD My Passport 0820 2TB 18,744 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 629GB free, PID 0820 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)	25.3% Poor	Read 91.3 Write 38 Mixed 42.3 63% 57.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.17 48% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 25.3% Great: 42%
SAMSUNG HM501II 500GB 22 User benchmarks, average bench 16% 303GB free, PID 0571 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	19.1% Very poor	Read 40.1 Write 43.1 Mixed 38 52% 40.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.29 54% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 19.1% Great: 19%
WD Elements 1TB 51,914 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 121GB free, PID 1042 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	29.2% Poor	Read 61.8 Write 71.6 Mixed 51.2 79% 61.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.22 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.12 56% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 29.2% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 34,385 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	70.7% Very good	MC Read 25 MC Write 26.4 MC Mixed 22.5 70% 24.6 GB/s	SC Read 15.1 SC Write 23.9 SC Mixed 23.1 59% 20.7 GB/s	Latency 56.2 71% 56.2 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 63%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Motherboard: Asus Z87-A - $299

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	833x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	751x
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	188x

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	68x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $631

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	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 $184	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