Asrock Z87 Extreme3

Performance Results


Gaming 88% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 82.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	109% 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	96.8% 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.

Motherboard	Asrock Z87 Extreme3 (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140121
Uptime	5.4 Days
Run Date	Mar 07 '18 at 06:27
Run Duration	235 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	6%

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PC Performing as expected (57^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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	82.9% Excellent	Memory 90.5 1-Core 115 2-Core 240 83% 148 Pts	4-Core 406 8-Core 635 64% 520 Pts	64-Core 628 39% 628 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 82.9% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 85AA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	109% Outstanding	Lighting 144 Reflection 151 Parallax 130 118% 142 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 137 Splatting 113 100% 123 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 109GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 15170 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 361 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 73 57 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 6 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2955886025	99.8% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 415 Mixed 421 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 45.2 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 29.5 160% 58.6 MB/s	DQ Read 47.6 DQ Write 262 DQ Mixed 28.4 59% 113 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 99.8% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 61GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 20640 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 410 (B1) Unknown 96 96 75 (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 70 54 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 20 (F1) Unknown 99 99 42480410459	96.8% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 403 Mixed 412 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 44 4K Write 90.2 4K Mixed 28.4 151% 54.2 MB/s	DQ Read 46.8 DQ Write 285 DQ Mixed 28.3 62% 120 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 96.8% Great: 134%
PNY SSD2SC240G3LC726B104-327 240GB 95 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 10GB free Firmware: 524ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 5103986 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -32693291056894 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 725 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 10 (B1) Unknown 0 0 22 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 25 37 42952097817 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 5103986 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 5103986 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 5103986 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 16669 (EA) Unknown 0 0 12385 (F1) Unknown 0 0 12385 (F2) Unknown 0 0 10858	83.4% Excellent	Read 496 Write 228 Mixed 286 74% 337 MB/s	4K Read 30.4 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 23.5 132% 53.1 MB/s	DQ Read 256 DQ Write 232 DQ Mixed 63.6 97% 184 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 83.4% Great: 92%
Hitachi HDN726060ALE614 6TB 1,326 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 4.5TB free Firmware: APGNW7JH Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 138 138 101 (03) Spinup time 137 137 38686163424 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1467 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 128 128 18 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1556 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 83 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1734 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1734 (C2) HDA temperature 176 176 219044380706 (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 200 200 0	115% Outstanding	Read 200 Write 200 Mixed 187 147% 196 MB/s	4K Read 1.14 4K Write 3.94 4K Mixed 0.38 163% 1.82 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 121%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$88 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 533GB free Firmware: CC1H Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 239924147 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 81 81 19481 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 7 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 122161357 (09) Power-on hours count 41 41 51787 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 37 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2625 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 21475426314 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 199 (BE) vendor-specific 71 58 571670557 (C2) HDA temperature 29 42 38654705693 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 36 16 239924147 (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 -27870042743859 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2464427713 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1170112414	42.4% Average	Read 71.5 Write 76.2 Mixed 66.5 54% 71.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.27 4K Mixed 0.34 76% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 42.4% Great: 70%
Hitachi HDS724040KLSA80 400GB-$133 543 User benchmarks, average bench 23% 368GB free Firmware: KFAOA4CA Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 102 102 55879402153 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 11125 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 89126 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 985 (C0) Power-off retract count 88 88 14807 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 88 88 14807 (C2) HDA temperature 183 183 236223594526 (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 200 200 1	32.4% Below average	Read 58 Write 54.6 Mixed 55.3 42% 56 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.73 4K Mixed 0.36 102% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 32.4% Great: 32%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Team Vulcan-1600 2x8GB 1,179 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	28% Poor	MC Read 8.9 MC Write 9.1 MC Mixed 7.6 24% 8.53 GB/s	SC Read 8.3 SC Write 10 SC Mixed 8.6 26% 8.97 GB/s	Latency 66.5 60% 66.5 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 28% Great: 62%

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z87 Extreme3 - $166

CPU
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	96x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	69x
Core i5-4570Intel $99Bench 62%, 129,272 samples	28x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	25x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	21x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	15x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	16x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	13x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	11x

RAM
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	14x
Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 54%, 7,771 samples	10x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 49%, 28,220 samples	8x

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Value: 75% - Very good

Total price: $444

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