Asus Z87-A

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 15% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 81.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	11.7% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	89.1% 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-A (all builds)
Memory	11.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131003
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 21 '18 at 01:53
Run Duration	145 Seconds
Run User	NZL-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4670-$52 49,019 User benchmarks, average bench 66% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	81.8% Excellent	Memory 91.9 1-Core 110 2-Core 214 80% 139 Pts	4-Core 422 8-Core 378 54% 400 Pts	64-Core 416 26% 416 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 81.8% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 660-$170 123,956 User benchmarks, average bench 20% Asus(1043 8423) 2GB CLim: 705 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 390.65 Relative performance (0^th percentile)	11.7% Very poor	Lighting 13.4 Reflection 12.9 Parallax 17.1 11% 14.5 fps	MRender 19.4 Gravity 16.3 Splatting 14 13% 16.6 fps
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 11.7% Great: 21%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 43GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 27121 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 718 (B1) Unknown 91 91 101 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 54 50 46 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 88 (F1) Unknown 99 99 36732445018	89.1% Excellent	Read 507 Write 345 Mixed 351 89% 401 MB/s	4K Read 41.7 4K Write 65.9 4K Mixed 22.7 127% 43.4 MB/s	DQ Read 265 DQ Write 210 DQ Mixed 70.9 98% 182 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 89.1% Great: 118%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 91GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 20179506 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 11148 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 171829972 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 18983 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4838 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065669 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 59 47 690028585 (C2) HDA temperature 41 53 55834574889 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 21 9 20179506 (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 -91220810367991 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1584337775 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2169887801	40.6% Average	Read 72.8 Write 68.6 Mixed 72.4 54% 71.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.46 99% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 40.6% Great: 68%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB-$80 31,610 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 39GB free Firmware: 3.AAE Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 88 173250493 (03) Spinup time 97 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4917 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 518453108 (09) Power-on hours count 54 54 40421 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 809 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 56 48 740753452 (C2) HDA temperature 44 52 55834574892 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 62 49 12926044 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 3 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 3 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 97 250 3	35.3% Below average	Read 61.7 Write 61.3 Mixed 49.3 43% 57.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.16 4K Mixed 0.31 74% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 35.3% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GB 6,948 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1979 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	73.9% Very good	MC Read 27 MC Write 28 MC Mixed 24.5 76% 26.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 20.7 SC Mixed 21.9 57% 19.9 GB/s	Latency 64.2 62% 64.2 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 71%

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Workstation 50%

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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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Total price: $631

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