Asus Z87-C

Performance Results


Gaming 21% Surfboard	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 18% Surfboard


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 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	21.6% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	55.1% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-C (all builds)
Memory	2 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130626
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Feb 04 '18 at 01:00
Run Duration	438 Seconds
Run User	NZL-User
Background CPU	12%

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 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	78.8% Very good	Memory 90.2 1-Core 104 2-Core 210 78% 135 Pts	4-Core 390 8-Core 395 52% 392 Pts	64-Core 401 25% 401 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 78.8% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 660-$170 123,956 User benchmarks, average bench 20% Gigabyte(1458 354E) 2GB CLim: 1254 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	21.6% Poor	Lighting 25.3 Reflection 24.2 Parallax 31.8 21% 27.1 fps	MRender 33.6 Gravity 29.5 Splatting 25.1 24% 29.4 fps
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 21.6% Great: 21%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial_CT525MX3 525GB 577 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 366GB free Firmware: M0CR060 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^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 14 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 51 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 2 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 72 64 154619740188 (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 335753357 (F7) Unknown 100 100 10500975 (F8) Unknown 100 100 3792970 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1923 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	108% Outstanding	Read 489 Write 485 Mixed 481 108% 485 MB/s	4K Read 27.6 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 37.1 146% 57 MB/s	DQ Read 333 DQ Write 305 DQ Mixed 64.8 118% 234 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 98%
Adata Premier Pro SP900 128GB-$40 2,820 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 10GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.0.7a Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 116 145151361 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 14937896271291 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1411 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 134 (B1) Unknown 0 0 10 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 32 51 1013615624224 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 145151361 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 145151361 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 145151361 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 21494 (EA) Unknown 0 0 20467 (F1) Unknown 0 0 20467 (F2) Unknown 0 0 22597	55.1% Above average	Read 266 Write 102 Mixed 124 36% 164 MB/s	4K Read 31.5 4K Write 91.6 4K Mixed 12.8 113% 45.3 MB/s	DQ Read 172 DQ Write 110 DQ Mixed 39.8 57% 107 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 55.1% Great: 80%
Seagate BUP Slim BK 2TB 21,039 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 1.5TB free Firmware: 0302 Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	22.8% Poor	Read 37.8 Write 41.7 Mixed 39.9 30% 39.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 0.26 4K Mixed 0.11 37% 0.28 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 22.8% Great: 67%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB-$230 19,674 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 281GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 62922144 (03) Spinup time 91 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1433 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 83778287 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11616 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 569 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 64425558033 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 54 639041569 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 47 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1496 (C2) HDA temperature 33 46 34359738401 (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 49731426333247 (F1) Unknown 100 253 43420108515 (F2) Unknown 100 253 104890872649	67.7% Good	Read 94.9 Write 140 Mixed 93.1 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 5.1 4K Mixed 0.54 174% 2.03 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 67.7% Great: 94%
Hitachi HDT722516DLA380 165GB-$32 1,600 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 140GB free Firmware: V43OA96A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 99 99 131073 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 118 118 21494038824 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 18704 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 35806 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 4080 (C0) Power-off retract count 84 84 19686 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 84 84 19686 (C2) HDA temperature 144 144 244813398054 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 4 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 253 0	33.9% Below average	Read 59 Write 58.7 Mixed 55.9 44% 57.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.94 4K Mixed 0.38 108% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 33.9% Great: 35%
USB DISK 2.0 8GB 3,226 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 4GB free, PID 4100 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	5.35% Terrible	Read 21.7 Write 2.98 Mixed 6.06 10% 10.2 MB/s	4K Read 6.52 4K Write 0.006 4K Mixed 0.01 25% 2.18 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 5.35% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMX4GX3M2A1600C9 0420 F3-12800CL9-2GBRL 0215 CMX4GX3M2A1600C9 0420 F3-12800CL9-2GBRL 8GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 2048, 2048, 2048, 2048 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	49% Average	MC Read 15.6 MC Write 18.7 MC Mixed 15.3 47% 16.5 GB/s	SC Read 13.6 SC Write 17.7 SC Mixed 14.6 44% 15.3 GB/s	Latency 66.9 60% 66.9 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 49% Great: 49%

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Gaming 44%

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 37%

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Motherboard: Asus Z87-C - $120

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	196x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	149x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	107x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	61x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	60x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	42x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	34x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	30x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	23x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	32x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	23x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	20x

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Value: 84% - Excellent

Total price: $437

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 $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 $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