Asus SABERTOOTH Z87

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 63% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (85th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 15 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 93.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	83.9% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	89.5% 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 8 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 5 years ago, 4 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 (all builds)
Memory	14 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20131106
Uptime	1.4 Days
Run Date	Nov 26 '17 at 06:13
Run Duration	170 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (85^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-$127 128,482 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.7% Outstanding	Memory 96.1 1-Core 133 2-Core 266 92% 165 Pts	4-Core 528 8-Core 522 70% 525 Pts	64-Core 525 32% 525 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 93.7% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX Titan X-$615 15,621 User benchmarks, average bench 75% EVGA(3842 2992) CLim: 1519 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	83.9% Excellent	Lighting 109 Reflection 107 Parallax 108 88% 108 fps	MRender 90.7 Gravity 98.2 Splatting 87.7 75% 92.2 fps
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 83.9% Great: 83%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$210 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 237GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1874 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 666 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 75 65 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1044066988	119% Outstanding	Read 529 Write 503 Mixed 420 108% 484 MB/s	4K Read 38.2 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 46.2 176% 65.1 MB/s	DQ Read 314 DQ Write 285 DQ Mixed 156 156% 251 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 124%
Samsung 840 Pro 512GB-$129 14,996 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 137GB free Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6177 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1820 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 74 63 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 8 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2162253415	105% Outstanding	Read 524 Write 455 Mixed 435 105% 471 MB/s	4K Read 35.6 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 30.2 150% 57.9 MB/s	DQ Read 247 DQ Write 278 DQ Mixed 67.2 105% 197 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 118%
Corsair Neutron GTX 120GB-$79 2,261 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 19GB free (System drive) Firmware: M311 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 166 166 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8533 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2224 (AB) Unknown 253 253 0 (AC) Unknown 253 253 0 (B5) Unknown 253 253 0 (B6) Unknown 253 253 0 (C2) HDA temperature 29 0 60132098077 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 90 90 11 (EA) Unknown 100 100 61953 (F1) Unknown 100 100 5743 (F2) Unknown 100 100 7839 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 5587	89.5% Excellent	Read 500 Write 307 Mixed 216 75% 341 MB/s	4K Read 28.4 4K Write 100 4K Mixed 25.9 129% 51.5 MB/s	DQ Read 274 DQ Write 285 DQ Mixed 61.7 106% 207 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 89.5% Great: 95%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 341GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 72660760 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5325 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 15774685 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8235 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2222 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 77 60 9044164631 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 17 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 65 65 70883 (C2) HDA temperature 23 40 -140737488355305 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 132473971281331 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5163359737 (F2) Unknown 100 253 10057833278	96.3% Outstanding	Read 187 Write 149 Mixed 80.6 102% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.79 4K Mixed 0.27 89% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 96.3% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 1600 C7 2x8GB 2,105 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	65.5% Good	MC Read 22.6 MC Write 23.1 MC Mixed 20.8 63% 22.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.8 SC Write 23.5 SC Mixed 21 59% 20.8 GB/s	Latency 53.5 75% 53.5 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 65.5% Great: 75%

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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	844x
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	105x
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	55x
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: 90% - Excellent

Total price: $555

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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