Asus Z87-A

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 88% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 91.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	97.6% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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 9 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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-A (all builds)
Memory	10.3 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140815
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 17 '18 at 20:05
Run Duration	107 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing above expectations (62^nd 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 (100^th percentile)	91.9% Outstanding	Memory 96.7 1-Core 113 2-Core 264 88% 158 Pts	4-Core 509 8-Core 471 66% 490 Pts	64-Core 512 32% 512 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 91.9% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3366) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 398.36 Performing below potential (21^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	97.6% Outstanding	Lighting 125 Reflection 126 Parallax 114 102% 121 fps	MRender 98 Gravity 130 Splatting 103 90% 110 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 97.6% Great: 110%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 301GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1AJ10001 SusWrite @10s intervals: 84 84 84 85 90 90 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	52.1% Above average	Read 94.8 Write 105 Mixed 52.7 SusWrite 86.2 62% 84.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 1.2 211% 1.47 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 52.1% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C9D3/4GX KHX1600C9D3/4GX KHX1600C10D3/4G 12GB 72 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	74.2% Very good	MC Read 26.3 MC Write 27.3 MC Mixed 23.2 73% 25.6 GB/s	SC Read 19.9 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 23.2 64% 22.5 GB/s	Latency 51.5 78% 51.5 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 74.2% Great: 60%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 60%

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 50%

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Motherboard: Asus Z87-A - $299

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	833x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	751x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	345x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	237x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	206x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	188x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	101x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	91x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	87x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	83x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	71x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	68x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $631

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 $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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