Asus Z87-A

Performance Results


Gaming 100% UFO	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 79.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	125% 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	39.4% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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 10 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (18%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-A (all builds)
Memory	9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20130419
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 23 '18 at 22:36
Run Duration	119 Seconds
Run User	UKR-User
Background CPU	18%

PC Performing above expectations (75^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 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	79.6% Very good	Memory 94.7 1-Core 110 2-Core 220 81% 142 Pts	4-Core 375 8-Core 372 50% 374 Pts	64-Core 422 26% 422 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 79.6% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85F1) CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing below potential (64^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	125% Outstanding	Lighting 172 Reflection 199 Parallax 201 140% 191 fps	MRender 125 Gravity 173 Splatting 124 114% 141 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 125% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V+200 Series 120GB 853 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 35GB free (System drive) Firmware: 506ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 109 26342073 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 5 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 -92857192930057 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2469 (AB) Unknown 0 0 2 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 156 (B1) Unknown 0 0 7 (B5) Unknown 0 0 2 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 24 82 42955046936 (C2) HDA temperature 24 82 42955046936 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 26342073 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 5 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 26342073 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 26342073 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11491 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6989 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6989 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5682	39.4% Below average	Read 142 Write 72.2 Mixed 102 23% 105 MB/s	4K Read 21.8 4K Write 81.2 4K Mixed 8.81 87% 37.3 MB/s	DQ Read 112 DQ Write 97.3 DQ Mixed 22.6 39% 77.3 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 39.4% Great: 83%
WD Red 2TB (2012)-$82 64,359 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 643GB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 168 4375 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1100 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 3942 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1096 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 59 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6665 (C2) HDA temperature 123 113 24 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	66.5% Good	Read 118 Write 114 Mixed 63.2 73% 98.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 2.01 4K Mixed 0.18 82% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 86%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX2133C11D3/4GX KHX1600C9D3/4GX KHX2133C11D3/4GX KHX1600C9D3/4GX 16GB 33 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	74.1% Very good	MC Read 25.8 MC Write 29.2 MC Mixed 24.6 76% 26.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.7 SC Write 20.1 SC Mixed 20.9 55% 19.2 GB/s	Latency 58 69% 58 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 74.1% Great: 74%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Workstation 50%

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Motherboard: Asus Z87-A - $299

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	843x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	763x
Core i7-4770Intel $65Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	353x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	239x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	207x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	193x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	103x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	91x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	88x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	83x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	72x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	69x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $773

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $174	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $44

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $28	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16