Asus Z87-K

Performance Results


Gaming 93% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 83.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	112% 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	108% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-K (all builds)
Memory	8.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141105
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Apr 07 '20 at 15:47
Run Duration	156 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770-$75 176,321 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	83.3% Excellent	Memory 91.9 1-Core 111 2-Core 221 81% 141 Pts	4-Core 403 8-Core 581 62% 492 Pts	64-Core 565 35% 565 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 5700-XT-$199 254,908 User benchmarks, average bench 98% PowerColor(148C 2398) Ram: 8GB, Driver: 20.4.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	112% Outstanding	Lighting 142 Reflection 113 Parallax 250 116% 168 fps	MRender 113 Gravity 139 Splatting 157 114% 136 fps
Poor: 91% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 104%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 49GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 147 175 177 169 142 112 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Read 503 Write 470 Mixed 394 SusWrite 154 85% 380 MB/s	4K Read 44.5 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 59.7 200% 69.9 MB/s	DQ Read 380 DQ Write 334 DQ Mixed 355 267% 356 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 134%
WD Black NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB (2017)-$135 28,136 User benchmarks, average bench 121% 104GB free Firmware: B35900WD Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 275 220 211 211 212 212 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	121% Outstanding	Read 632 Write 612 Mixed 457 SusWrite 224 108% 481 MB/s	4K Read 40.7 4K Write 99.1 4K Mixed 53.3 182% 64.4 MB/s	DQ Read 662 DQ Write 492 DQ Mixed 386 340% 513 MB/s
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 144%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 918GB free Firmware: CC27 SusWrite @10s intervals: 135 165 168 173 176 177 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	98.7% Outstanding	Read 179 Write 141 Mixed 81.3 SusWrite 166 104% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.8 150% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 98.7% Great: 114%
Hitachi HUA723020ALA640 2TB-$41 7,860 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 340GB free Firmware: MK7ONS00 SusWrite @10s intervals: 100 100 102 101 102 101 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	56.5% Above average	Read 95.7 Write 89 Mixed 53.3 SusWrite 101 62% 84.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.8 154% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 56.5% Great: 83%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GB 48,796 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	59.2% Above average	MC Read 20.8 MC Write 21.7 MC Mixed 18.5 58% 20.3 GB/s	SC Read 15.8 SC Write 20.4 SC Mixed 19 53% 18.4 GB/s	Latency 64.3 62% 64.3 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 59.2% Great: 63%

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

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

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Motherboard: Asus Z87-K - $134

CPU
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	509x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	438x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	361x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	169x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	140x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	137x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	79x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	58x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	55x

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	84x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	63x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	50x

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Value: 75% - Very good

Total price: $412

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	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 $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 $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16