Asus Z87-PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 98% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 82% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	109% 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	91.7% 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

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-PRO (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140818
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 27 '17 at 15:04
Run Duration	162 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (76^th 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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.3% Outstanding	Memory 94.2 1-Core 128 2-Core 260 90% 161 Pts	4-Core 465 8-Core 699 72% 582 Pts	64-Core 651 40% 651 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 90.3% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 85AA) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	109% Outstanding	Lighting 144 Reflection 153 Parallax 130 117% 142 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 136 Splatting 111 98% 121 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$123 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 90GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3387 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 948 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (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 67 54 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 27 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1829037812	105% Outstanding	Read 527 Write 502 Mixed 511 115% 513 MB/s	4K Read 38.6 4K Write 121 4K Mixed 26.5 156% 62 MB/s	DQ Read 39.1 DQ Write 305 DQ Mixed 150 122% 165 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 124%
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB-$150 34,842 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 61GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10700 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2600 (B1) Unknown 92 92 267 (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 50 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 154 (F1) Unknown 99 99 18972964869	91.7% Outstanding	Read 521 Write 399 Mixed 437 101% 452 MB/s	4K Read 35.7 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 24 147% 59.2 MB/s	DQ Read 36.8 DQ Write 122 DQ Mixed 23.5 34% 60.8 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 91.7% Great: 110%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$51 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 150 143 11466 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1549 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6762 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1474 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 50 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1498 (C2) HDA temperature 112 97 40 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	93.9% Outstanding	Read 161 Write 166 Mixed 173 126% 167 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 2.64 4K Mixed 0.31 109% 1.19 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 93.9% Great: 112%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 1.5TB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8516 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3380 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11659 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2566 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 129 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3250 (C2) HDA temperature 110 95 42 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	75.7% Very good	Read 135 Write 129 Mixed 131 99% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 2.79 4K Mixed 0.42 132% 1.33 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 75.7% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 34,385 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	62.4% Good	MC Read 21.8 MC Write 22.4 MC Mixed 19.3 60% 21.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.6 SC Write 23.7 SC Mixed 19.2 58% 20.2 GB/s	Latency 59.2 68% 59.2 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 62.4% 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 10%

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Desktop 69%

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Workstation 9%

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Motherboard: Asus Z87-PRO - $135

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	1,097x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	422x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	236x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	170x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	159x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	159x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	107x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	101x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $135Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	98x

RAM
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	60x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	53x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	52x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $364

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $124	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16