Ciara Q87M-XA

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 50% Yacht	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 38% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (87th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 13 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 80.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	61.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent 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	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

4 years ago, 4 years ago.

System	Ciara Q87M-XA (all builds)
Motherboard	ASUSTeK Q87M-E
Memory	14.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131213
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 12 '19 at 01:37
Run Duration	108 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4570-$62 129,272 User benchmarks, average bench 62% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	80.7% Excellent	Memory 92.5 1-Core 107 2-Core 205 78% 135 Pts	4-Core 400 8-Core 398 53% 399 Pts	64-Core 397 24% 397 Pts
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 72%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% MSI(1462 3281) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 419.67 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	61.5% Good	Lighting 77.9 Reflection 77.3 Parallax 67.1 64% 74.1 fps	MRender 71 Gravity 71 Splatting 69.4 58% 70.5 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 61.5% Great: 60%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 891GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC43 SusWrite @10s intervals: 111 124 154 175 186 188 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	95.6% Outstanding	Read 177 Write 187 Mixed 79.5 SusWrite 156 110% 150 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.9 163% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 95.6% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-037.A00LF 2x8GB 2,364 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	62% Good	MC Read 22.2 MC Write 23.2 MC Mixed 19.1 61% 21.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 19.9 SC Mixed 19.2 53% 18.6 GB/s	Latency 63.2 63% 63.2 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 62% Great: 61%

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

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Desktop 60%

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Workstation 7%

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System: Ciara Q87M-XA

CPU
Core i5-4570Intel $62Bench 62%, 129,272 samples	73x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	24x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	17x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	40x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	31x
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	13x

SSD
Burst 120GBPatriotBench 66%, 15,567 samples	8x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	7x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	5x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	6x
HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 4x4GBKingstonBench 63%, 2,772 samples	5x
CT102464BA160B.C16 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 11,058 samples	5x

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Value: 85% - Excellent

Total price: $77

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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