Asus Z87-PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 78.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	104% 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	70.9% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-PRO (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130819
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 30 '16 at 19:06
Run Duration	273 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	16%

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PC Performing above expectations (71^st 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 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	78.2% Very good	Memory 93.8 1-Core 108 2-Core 208 79% 137 Pts	4-Core 340 8-Core 485 52% 412 Pts	64-Core 535 33% 535 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 78.2% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 21.21.13.7270 Performing below potential (71^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 136 Reflection 149 Parallax 127 111% 137 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 131 Splatting 106 95% 117 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel SSDSA2M080G2LE 80GB 181 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 49GB free Firmware: 2CV102J6 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 11 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8020 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2697 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 853 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 150030 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 17566 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 0 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 2925265439 (E8) Unknown 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 96 96 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0	40.4% Average	Read 258 Write 72.9 Mixed 126 33% 152 MB/s	4K Read 21.5 4K Write 56.7 4K Mixed 6.92 72% 28.4 MB/s	DQ Read 175 DQ Write 76.1 DQ Mixed 46.8 56% 99.3 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 40.4% Great: 42%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 47GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7769 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1100 (B1) Unknown 95 95 59 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 55 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 38 (F1) Unknown 99 99 26711100983	70.9% Very good	Read 364 Write 248 Mixed 254 64% 289 MB/s	4K Read 36.9 4K Write 47.4 4K Mixed 22.3 110% 35.5 MB/s	DQ Read 241 DQ Write 149 DQ Mixed 69 85% 153 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 118%
Intel SSDSA2M080G2LE 80GB 181 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 37GB free Firmware: 2CV102J6 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 11 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7916 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2690 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 841 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 172561 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 7361 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 0 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 4261931607 (E8) Unknown 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 95 95 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0	39.9% Below average	Read 256 Write 68.5 Mixed 122 32% 149 MB/s	4K Read 21.1 4K Write 57.1 4K Mixed 6.84 71% 28.3 MB/s	DQ Read 175 DQ Write 74.4 DQ Mixed 46.5 55% 98.6 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 39.9% Great: 42%
Intel SSDSA2M080G2LE 80GB 181 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 34GB free Firmware: 2CV102J6 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7552 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2687 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 838 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 161963 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 19075 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 0 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 2693041426 (E8) Unknown 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 96 96 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0	39.4% Below average	Read 256 Write 63.5 Mixed 120 32% 146 MB/s	4K Read 21.4 4K Write 56 4K Mixed 6.69 71% 28 MB/s	DQ Read 173 DQ Write 73.1 DQ Mixed 45.3 54% 97.1 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 39.4% Great: 42%
Samsung 830 128GB-$109 37,250 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 32GB free Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 12110 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1883 (B1) Unknown 92 92 263 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 49 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 55 (F1) Unknown 99 99 17129057573	71% Very good	Read 494 Write 271 Mixed 357 83% 374 MB/s	4K Read 22.3 4K Write 59.9 4K Mixed 19.5 90% 33.9 MB/s	DQ Read 265 DQ Write 79.6 DQ Mixed 63 75% 136 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 76%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 59428504 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1402 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 248001 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1909 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 389 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 73 67 471203867 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3055 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 55834574875 (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 97139275334019 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8375427448 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2346469715	106% Outstanding	Read 203 Write 167 Mixed 169 135% 180 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.23 84% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 114%
Samsung HD502HJ 500GB-$50 72,924 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 329GB free Firmware: 1AJ100E4 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 83 81 5257 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6779 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 13337 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3319 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 2 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 58 180389347356 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 10 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 6862	53.4% Above average	Read 91.3 Write 94.7 Mixed 100 72% 95.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.94 4K Mixed 0.35 102% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 53.4% Great: 77%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GB 18,444 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	66.8% Good	MC Read 24 MC Write 25.3 MC Mixed 21.2 67% 23.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.5 SC Write 19.7 SC Mixed 19.7 53% 18.6 GB/s	Latency 60.4 66% 60.4 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 66.8% Great: 71%

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Gaming 10%

Tree trunk

Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 9%

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Motherboard: Asus Z87-PRO - $225

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	1,089x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	422x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	235x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	170x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	158x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	157x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	105x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	100x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	97x

RAM
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	58x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	52x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	52x

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Value: 63% - Good

Total price: $450

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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