Asus SABERTOOTH Z87

Performance Results


Gaming 59% Gunboat	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (82nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 18 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 91.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	62% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	77.8% 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.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140818
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 30 '16 at 16:20
Run Duration	136 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.1% Outstanding	Memory 94.9 1-Core 125 2-Core 253 89% 158 Pts	4-Core 504 8-Core 506 67% 505 Pts	64-Core 501 31% 501 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 91.1% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-3GB-$119 627,793 User benchmarks, average bench 52% PNY(196E 11D9) 3GB Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7570 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	62% Good	Lighting 76.4 Reflection 75.9 Parallax 72.5 62% 74.9 fps	MRender 78 Gravity 72.4 Splatting 75.2 62% 75.2 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 62% Great: 56%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS1311 480GB-$31 13,149 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 320GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS131122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 571 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 47 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 468 (AD) Unknown 100 100 65539 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 19 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 853	77.8% Very good	Read 496 Write 339 Mixed 342 87% 392 MB/s	4K Read 27.5 4K Write 62.5 4K Mixed 9.06 86% 33 MB/s	DQ Read 348 DQ Write 235 DQ Mixed 8.96 83% 197 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 101%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$30 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 220GB free Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 559 (09) Power-on hours count 222 100 5086 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 88 (A6) Unknown 100 100 7809 (A7) Unknown 100 100 382 (A8) Unknown 100 100 8011 (A9) Unknown 100 100 606 (AA) Unknown 100 100 559 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 7804 (AE) Unknown 100 100 51 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 5340 (C2) HDA temperature 57 100 274877906987 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 261 (E8) Unknown 100 100 16392891 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1525741 (F1) Unknown 253 253 102748 (F2) Unknown 253 253 4101	71.6% Very good	Read 466 Write 358 Mixed 370 88% 398 MB/s	4K Read 25 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 4.32 101% 46.3 MB/s	DQ Read 26 DQ Write 125 DQ Mixed 24.3 34% 58.5 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 71.6% Great: 86%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 925GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 71 69 8868 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2664 (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 35496 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 321 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 702 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 48 223339348004 (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 100 100 11 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 320 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 2672	83.2% Excellent	Read 140 Write 150 Mixed 145 109% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.85 4K Write 2.8 4K Mixed 0.64 158% 1.43 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 83.2% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-12800CL9-4GBXL 1315 BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 0420 F3-12800CL9-4GBXL 1315 BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 16GB 128 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	64.3% Good	MC Read 22.4 MC Write 23.1 MC Mixed 20.1 62% 21.9 GB/s	SC Read 18 SC Write 23.1 SC Mixed 20.7 59% 20.6 GB/s	Latency 57.3 70% 57.3 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 64.3% Great: 64%

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Gaming 61%

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 50%

Yacht

Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 - $193

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	849x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	173x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	171x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	125x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	106x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	86x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	62x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	56x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	54x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	40x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	39x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GBCorsairBench 55%, 18,444 samples	34x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $540

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	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 $39	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) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16