Asus SABERTOOTH Z87

Performance Results


Gaming 88% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 85.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	102% 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	80% 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

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

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170306
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 16 '18 at 20:45
Run Duration	156 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (72^nd 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 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	85.7% Excellent	Memory 94.6 1-Core 125 2-Core 242 87% 154 Pts	4-Core 414 8-Core 641 65% 528 Pts	64-Core 653 40% 653 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 85.7% 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 8591) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2515 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below potential (51^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	102% Outstanding	Lighting 132 Reflection 140 Parallax 130 108% 134 fps	MRender 109 Gravity 130 Splatting 105 93% 115 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Neutron GTX 240GB-$503 3,421 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 111GB free (System drive) Firmware: M311 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 166 144 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 98 98 294 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15308 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3450 (AB) Unknown 253 253 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 307 (B5) Unknown 253 253 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 307 (C2) HDA temperature 40 0 55838048296 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 91 91 10 (EA) Unknown 100 100 140918 (F1) Unknown 100 100 23403 (F2) Unknown 100 100 36862 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 37338	80% Very good	Read 490 Write 403 Mixed 429 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 24.2 4K Write 98.6 4K Mixed 18.5 112% 47.1 MB/s	DQ Read 28 DQ Write 102 DQ Mixed 18.7 28% 49.6 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 80% Great: 100%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 530GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 168928144 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4337 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 30236438715 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 14963 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3448 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 66 66 34 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065667 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 67 54 555810849 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 210 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 50 50 101920 (C2) HDA temperature 33 46 55834574881 (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 24734716667964 (F1) Unknown 100 253 91952211870 (F2) Unknown 100 253 135669952158	86.2% Excellent	Read 153 Write 148 Mixed 105 101% 135 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.13 4K Mixed 0.19 59% 0.58 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 113%
WD My Passport 25E2 3TB 3,377 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 2TB free, PID 25e2 Operating at USB 3.1 Speed Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	59% Above average	Read 161 Write 88.8 Mixed 88 130% 113 MB/s	4K Read 1.12 4K Write 5.22 4K Mixed 0.31 192% 2.21 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 59% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 10,124 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	62.3% Good	MC Read 21.8 MC Write 22.3 MC Mixed 19.1 60% 21.1 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 23.7 SC Mixed 19.8 58% 20.3 GB/s	Latency 58.3 69% 58.3 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 62.3% Great: 62%

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Gaming 61%

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Desktop 80%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 50%

Yacht

Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 - $193

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	845x
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	124x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	106x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	84x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	62x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	56x
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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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 $45	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