Asus Z87-PLUS

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (83rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 17 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 88%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	84.8% 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	99.4% 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.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-PLUS (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140815
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 24 '18 at 19:41
Run Duration	187 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	24%

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PC Performing above expectations (83^rd 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 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	88% Excellent	Memory 96.6 1-Core 125 2-Core 249 89% 157 Pts	4-Core 429 8-Core 652 67% 540 Pts	64-Core 653 40% 653 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 88% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.24 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	84.8% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 119 Parallax 113 86% 113 fps	MRender 99.6 Gravity 98.3 Splatting 101 82% 99.5 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 84.8% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial BX100 1TB-$500 1,367 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 226GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^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 3370 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 83 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 127 (A3) Unknown 100 100 72 (A4) Unknown 100 100 45645 (A5) Unknown 100 100 104 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 20 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 31 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 82731 (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 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 505377 (F2) Unknown 100 100 311805 (F5) Unknown 100 100 730320	99.4% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 421 Mixed 431 101% 454 MB/s	4K Read 26.4 4K Write 98.5 4K Mixed 33.8 136% 52.9 MB/s	DQ Read 260 DQ Write 282 DQ Mixed 77.7 112% 206 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 99.4% Great: 108%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 492GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 171 2300 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1895 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 24397 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 426 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 52 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1917 (C2) HDA temperature 117 104 26 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	86.6% Excellent	Read 158 Write 143 Mixed 137 110% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 2.42 4K Mixed 0.29 109% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 86.6% Great: 108%
WD Blue 640GB (2008)-$33 94,563 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 343GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 166 163 4683 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8430 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 2 2 71554 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 682 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 183 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8418 (C2) HDA temperature 117 35 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 194 5 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 190 5 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 51 (C8) Write error rate 200 192 0	60.1% Good	Read 107 Write 102 Mixed 84.3 73% 97.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.99 4K Mixed 0.34 93% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 60.1% Great: 62%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 310GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 168 164 4583 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10323 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 17 17 60638 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 674 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 151 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 10309 (C2) HDA temperature 118 98 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	58.9% Above average	Read 108 Write 97.1 Mixed 71.7 69% 92.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 2.27 4K Mixed 0.4 116% 1.12 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 58.9% Great: 69%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 135GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 174 3991 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8480 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 34 34 48525 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 634 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 166 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8313 (C2) HDA temperature 116 96 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	71.9% Very good	Read 137 Write 113 Mixed 12.5 63% 87.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 2.01 4K Mixed 0.43 108% 1 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Sniper DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GB 5,634 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	69.9% Good	MC Read 25.4 MC Write 24.9 MC Mixed 21.6 68% 24 GB/s	SC Read 18.3 SC Write 22.5 SC Mixed 22.8 61% 21.2 GB/s	Latency 52 77% 52 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 72%

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Gaming 61%

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 50%

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Motherboard: Asus Z87-PLUS - $169

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	301x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	216x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	177x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	78x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	73x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	63x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	49x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	37x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	31x

RAM
1866 CL10 Series 4x8GBUnknownBench 58%, 2,056 samples	27x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	20x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	18x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $502

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $275	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