Asus Z87-PLUS

Performance Results


Gaming 44% Speed boat	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 35% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 82.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	47.6% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	65.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

Very high background CPU (88%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-PLUS (all builds)
Memory	4.3 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131003
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 25 '18 at 07:04
Run Duration	250 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	88%

PC Performing above expectations (70^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 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	82.6% Excellent	Memory 84.2 1-Core 119 2-Core 242 82% 149 Pts	4-Core 475 8-Core 431 62% 453 Pts	64-Core 448 28% 448 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 82.6% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 780-$329 50,279 User benchmarks, average bench 45% EVGA(3842 0784) 3GB CLim: 1306 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	47.6% Average	Lighting 57.4 Reflection 53.6 Parallax 69.8 47% 60.3 fps	MRender 70.2 Gravity 64.3 Splatting 50.8 49% 61.8 fps
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 47.6% Great: 49%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M4 512GB-$74 4,600 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 166GB free (System drive) Firmware: 000F Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st 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 14750 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1013 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 95 95 160 (AE) Unknown 100 100 399 (B5) Unknown 100 100 43791665143087 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 186 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 1 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 95 95 5 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	65.5% Good	Read 494 Write 250 Mixed 309 77% 351 MB/s	4K Read 20.6 4K Write 85 4K Mixed 9.54 88% 38.4 MB/s	DQ Read 124 DQ Write 116 DQ Mixed 11.7 39% 84.1 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 65.5% Great: 81%
OCZ Vector 256GB-$240 2,095 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 69GB free Firmware: 2.0.1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 0 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 32628 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 563 (AB) Unknown 80 80 36482384 (AE) Unknown 100 100 20 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (D0) Spin buzz 100 100 63 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 98 98 98 (F1) Unknown 100 100 857 (F2) Unknown 100 100 4411 (F9) Unknown 100 100 87340562	104% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 487 Mixed 501 111% 498 MB/s	4K Read 24.4 4K Write 93.9 4K Mixed 35.7 132% 51.4 MB/s	DQ Read 375 DQ Write 215 DQ Mixed 123 138% 237 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 111%
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 54GB free Firmware: X41100RL 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 100 100 11191 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 91 (A5) Unknown 100 100 2752535 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 28 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 497 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 68 292058824741 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 25769803782 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 446 (EA) Unknown 100 100 493 (F1) Unknown 253 253 481 (F2) Unknown 253 253 118 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	74.2% Very good	Read 484 Write 340 Mixed 322 85% 382 MB/s	4K Read 24.2 4K Write 33.2 4K Mixed 16.8 76% 24.7 MB/s	DQ Read 361 DQ Write 154 DQ Mixed 43.3 89% 186 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 74.2% Great: 108%
Samsung Portable SSD T1 500GB 503 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 17GB free Firmware: 0 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	74.9% Very good	Read 424 Write 397 Mixed 420 92% 414 MB/s	4K Read 22.4 4K Write 35.3 4K Mixed 26.7 87% 28.1 MB/s	DQ Read 142 DQ Write 151 DQ Mixed 77.7 78% 124 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 77%
Samsung Portable SSD T1 500GB 503 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 16GB free Firmware: 0 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	74.9% Very good	Read 426 Write 397 Mixed 421 93% 415 MB/s	4K Read 22.4 4K Write 34.7 4K Mixed 26.8 87% 28 MB/s	DQ Read 142 DQ Write 151 DQ Mixed 77.8 77% 123 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 77%
Toshiba X300 6TB-$78 5,594 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 5TB free Firmware: FS2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 5180 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1395 (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 75 75 10284 (0A) Spinup retry count 127 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 79 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 6 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1502 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 201864314920 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 99 99 483 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 537 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0
Poor: 58% Great: 109%
WD Green 500GB (2009)-$23 63,281 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 227GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 145 140 3750 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14070 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 28 28 52920 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1023 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 434 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 616418 (C2) HDA temperature 105 94 38 (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	41.6% Average	Read 70.1 Write 74.6 Mixed 76 56% 73.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.28 79% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 41.6% Great: 54%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Team Xtreem-LV-2666 2x4GB 99 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 2667 MHz clocked @ 2000 MHz Performing below potential (59^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	64.8% Good	MC Read 24.8 MC Write 25.6 MC Mixed 21.2 68% 23.9 GB/s	SC Read 11.4 SC Write 17.8 SC Mixed 14.3 42% 14.5 GB/s	Latency 73.2 55% 73.2 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 64.8% Great: 82%

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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	302x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	216x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	178x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	79x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	73x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	63x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $79Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	49x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	37x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 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: $501

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16