Asus SABERTOOTH Z87

Performance Results


Gaming 61% Destroyer	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 52% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	65.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	78.6% 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.

Run History

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170306
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Mar 10 '18 at 12:36
Run Duration	109 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (74^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% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	85.8% Excellent	Memory 98 1-Core 116 2-Core 225 84% 146 Pts	4-Core 398 8-Core 608 62% 503 Pts	64-Core 610 38% 610 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 85.8% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% EVGA(3842 6769) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2256 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	65.5% Good	Lighting 82.6 Reflection 81.1 Parallax 69.8 67% 77.8 fps	MRender 78.5 Gravity 73.8 Splatting 75.5 62% 75.9 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 65.5% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 275GB-$100 67,541 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 223GB free (System drive) Firmware: M0CR040 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^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 2283 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1712 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 95 95 77 (AE) Unknown 100 100 974 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 65 53 201864380451 (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 4 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 95 95 5 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 21719597874 (F7) Unknown 100 100 685711652 (F8) Unknown 100 100 159754804 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1258 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	78.6% Very good	Read 484 Write 335 Mixed 338 85% 386 MB/s	4K Read 27 4K Write 74.1 4K Mixed 19 104% 40 MB/s	DQ Read 191 DQ Write 176 DQ Mixed 33.1 66% 133 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 78.6% Great: 95%
Seagate ST33000651NS 3TB 6,381 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 1TB free Firmware: G009 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 63 222530334 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2366 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 22294808068 (09) Power-on hours count 61 61 34793 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2108 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 111 (BE) vendor-specific 66 53 571801634 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1061 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3610 (C2) HDA temperature 34 47 68719476770 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 26 6 222530334 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	68.5% Good	Read 120 Write 118 Mixed 114 89% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 2.17 4K Mixed 0.55 126% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 68.5% Great: 86%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F3 DDR3 2666 C11 4x4GB 222 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 2667 MHz clocked @ 2436 MHz Performing below potential (92^nd percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	87.2% Excellent	MC Read 32 MC Write 33 MC Mixed 27.9 88% 31 GB/s	SC Read 20 SC Write 20.7 SC Mixed 28 65% 22.9 GB/s	Latency 45.9 87% 45.9 ns
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 87.2% Great: 89%

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Gaming 61%

Destroyer

Desktop 80%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 50%

Yacht

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	123x
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 $129Bench 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