Asus GRYPHON Z87

Performance Results


Gaming 25% Raft	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 21% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 88.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	22.2% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	38.4% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Motherboard	Asus GRYPHON Z87 (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140603
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 26 '17 at 09:56
Run Duration	301 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4670K-$62 128,482 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	88.2% Excellent	Memory 94.9 1-Core 115 2-Core 234 84% 148 Pts	4-Core 471 8-Core 472 63% 471 Pts	64-Core 472 29% 472 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 88.2% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 660-$170 123,956 User benchmarks, average bench 20% MSI(1462 2871) 2GB Ram: 2GB, Driver: 306.97 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	22.2% Poor	Lighting 25.8 Reflection 24.8 Parallax 28.8 21% 26.4 fps	MRender 33.5 Gravity 32.3 Splatting 25.9 24% 30.6 fps
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 22.2% Great: 21%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 190GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2567 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2653 (B1) Unknown 98 98 24 (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 70 56 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 46 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2168856212	92.9% Outstanding	Read 499 Write 405 Mixed 181 80% 362 MB/s	4K Read 35.6 4K Write 58 4K Mixed 38.5 134% 44 MB/s	DQ Read 294 DQ Write 4.88 DQ Mixed 4.57 40% 101 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 92.9% Great: 124%
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB-$130 75,831 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 172GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 420 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 341 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 71 52 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 12 (F1) Unknown 99 99 659681043	74.3% Very good	Read 480 Write 268 Mixed 161 66% 303 MB/s	4K Read 32.6 4K Write 37.7 4K Mixed 27.7 105% 32.7 MB/s	DQ Read 289 DQ Write 6.24 DQ Mixed 15 44% 104 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 74.3% Great: 114%
Kingston SSDNow V+ Series 64GB 526 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 27GB free (System drive) Firmware: AGYA0202 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 14355 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 11191 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 176 (A9) Unknown 100 100 549801296072 (AA) Unknown 100 100 103088324706 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1090955641241 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 296 (C2) HDA temperature 76 51 210454446104 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	38.4% Below average	Read 211 Write 157 Mixed 151 38% 173 MB/s	4K Read 17.2 4K Write 35.6 4K Mixed 14 63% 22.3 MB/s	DQ Read 22.6 DQ Write 46.8 DQ Mixed 10.4 15% 26.6 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 38.4% Great: 42%
Samsung 830 64GB 4,094 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 26GB free Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2282 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2311 (B1) Unknown 98 98 39 (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 75 60 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 12 (EB) Unknown 99 99 55 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2281669398	52.8% Above average	Read 480 Write 155 Mixed 187 60% 274 MB/s	4K Read 19.8 4K Write 40 4K Mixed 13.4 68% 24.4 MB/s	DQ Read 170 DQ Write 9.56 DQ Mixed 9.78 27% 63.2 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 52.8% Great: 63%
Toshiba P300 3TB-$99 74,038 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 2.5TB free Firmware: MX6O Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	99.8% Outstanding	Read 175 Write 173 Mixed 162 128% 170 MB/s	4K Read 1.14 4K Write 2.35 4K Mixed 0.19 112% 1.22 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 99.8% Great: 108%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$60 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 678GB free Firmware: 51.0 Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	52.8% Above average	Read 96.1 Write 87.8 Mixed 84.1 67% 89.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 2.02 4K Mixed 0.18 86% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 52.8% Great: 67%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 319GB free Firmware: 80.0 Performing below expectations (29^th percentile)	54.1% Above average	Read 87.2 Write 101 Mixed 96.2 72% 94.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 2.14 4K Mixed 0.26 87% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 54.1% Great: 83%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 132GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 129 124 6550 (04) Start/Stop count 82 82 18584 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11233 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 88 88 12539 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 432 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 164 164 110260 (C2) HDA temperature 122 96 25 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	38.2% Below average	Read 72 Write 60.8 Mixed 6.93 34% 46.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.21 69% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 38.2% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 28,461 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	64.5% Good	MC Read 22.4 MC Write 23.4 MC Mixed 20.5 63% 22.1 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 21.3 SC Mixed 21.1 57% 19.9 GB/s	Latency 57.3 70% 57.3 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 64.5% Great: 76%

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 33%

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Motherboard: Asus GRYPHON Z87 - $200

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	150x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	137x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	80x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	52x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	45x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	38x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	25x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	23x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	20x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	22x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	15x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	11x

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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $620

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $160	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $29

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 $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16