Asus Z87-A

Performance Results


Gaming 24% Surfboard	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 20% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (34th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 66 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	28.8% 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	67.1% 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 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.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

4 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-A (all builds)
Memory	7.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20130506
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 17 '21 at 11:15
Run Duration	139 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	29%

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PC Performing below expectations (34^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 Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)	71.3% Very good	Memory 79 1-Core 96.2 2-Core 187 69% 121 Pts	4-Core 344 8-Core 487 52% 416 Pts	64-Core 504 31% 504 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 71.3% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 580-$130 360,351 User benchmarks, average bench 52% Asus(1043 0521) CLim: 1360 MHz, MLim: 2000 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 20.12.1 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	28.8% Poor	Lighting 24.5 Reflection 38.9 Parallax 24.8 20% 29.4 fps	MRender 62.3 Gravity 64.3 Splatting 45.6 46% 57.4 fps
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 28.8% Great: 56%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB-$130 75,831 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 20GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAT01B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 209 34 33 30 30 31 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	67.1% Good	Read 358 Write 206 Mixed 269 SusWrite 61.2 50% 223 MB/s	4K Read 23.8 4K Write 69.3 4K Mixed 34 116% 42.4 MB/s	DQ Read 293 DQ Write 285 DQ Mixed 266 206% 281 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 67.1% Great: 114%
WD Blue 80GB (2007)-$46 3,492 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 14GB free Firmware: 05.06H05 SusWrite @10s intervals: 57 57 57 57 57 57 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	36.8% Below average	Read 70.8 Write 70.3 Mixed 50.3 SusWrite 57.1 46% 62.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.8 147% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 36.8% Great: 49%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$63 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 47GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 70 70 70 68 70 55 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	41.3% Average	Read 76.5 Write 81.3 Mixed 42.8 SusWrite 67.2 49% 66.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.6 125% 1 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 41.3% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5402-461.A00LF 4x4GB 50 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (26^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	46.3% Average	MC Read 15.9 MC Write 17.9 MC Mixed 14.7 46% 16.2 GB/s	SC Read 11.3 SC Write 14.9 SC Mixed 12.9 37% 13 GB/s	Latency 82.4 48% 82.4 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 46.3% Great: 92%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 50%

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Motherboard: Asus Z87-A - $299

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	838x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	759x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	346x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	237x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	206x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	190x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	103x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	91x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	87x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	83x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	72x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	68x

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Value: 98% - Outstanding

Total price: $627

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	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 $45	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