Asus Z87-PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 72.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	105% 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	280% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-PRO (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140818
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 17 '21 at 19:36
Run Duration	180 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	12%

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PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3-$217 8,137 User benchmarks, average bench 73% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	72.9% Very good	Memory 83.5 1-Core 104 2-Core 197 74% 128 Pts	4-Core 336 8-Core 545 54% 441 Pts	64-Core 554 34% 554 Pts
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 72.9% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2070-$200 478,117 User benchmarks, average bench 104% MSI(1462 3734) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 461.40 Performing below potential (60^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	105% Outstanding	Lighting 127 Reflection 116 Parallax 131 104% 125 fps	MRender 183 Gravity 126 Splatting 107 110% 139 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 112%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 367,854 User benchmarks, average bench 276% 145GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B2Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1109 887 886 875 799 635 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	280% Outstanding	Read 2,327 Write 1943 Mixed 1,536 SusWrite 865 372% 1,668 MB/s	4K Read 67.1 4K Write 178 4K Mixed 89.9 311% 112 MB/s	DQ Read 930 DQ Write 753 DQ Mixed 821 620% 834 MB/s
Poor: 178% ↑ This bench: 280% Great: 355%
Samsung 830 256GB-$261 25,763 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 149GB free Firmware: 3B1Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 322 334 337 340 343 342 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	72.5% Very good	Read 466 Write 258 Mixed 253 SusWrite 336 73% 328 MB/s	4K Read 22.4 4K Write 54.6 4K Mixed 19.1 87% 32 MB/s	DQ Read 251 DQ Write 70.9 DQ Mixed 103 91% 141 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 86%
Crucial M4 128GB-$116 34,516 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 38GB free Firmware: 0309 SusWrite @10s intervals: 192 187 196 182 199 191 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	65.2% Good	Read 426 Write 165 Mixed 211 SusWrite 191 55% 248 MB/s	4K Read 23.8 4K Write 91.7 4K Mixed 16.6 106% 44 MB/s	DQ Read 139 DQ Write 119 DQ Mixed 56.5 62% 105 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 65.2% Great: 72%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB-$80 31,610 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 103GB free Firmware: G SusWrite @10s intervals: 66 66 65 67 66 66 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	39.3% Below average	Read 71 Write 73 Mixed 44.1 SusWrite 65.9 47% 63.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.8 138% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 39.3% Great: 43%
Seagate ST320LM001 HN-M320MBB 320GB 6,367 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 97GB free Firmware: 0001 SusWrite @10s intervals: 73 73 71 73 73 73 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	46.8% Average	Read 90.5 Write 59.7 Mixed 53.1 SusWrite 72.7 51% 69 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 0.7 4K Mixed 0.9 138% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 46.8% Great: 51%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 474 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (60^th percentile)	59% Above average	MC Read 21.4 MC Write 21.9 MC Mixed 18.2 59% 20.5 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 19.7 SC Mixed 19.3 52% 18.3 GB/s	Latency 74.4 54% 74.4 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 59% Great: 85%

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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 - $225

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	1,086x
Core i5-4670KIntel $127Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	421x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	234x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	170x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	158x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	157x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	105x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	100x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	97x

RAM
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	58x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	51x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	51x

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Value: 59% - Above average

Total price: $469

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16