Asus SABERTOOTH Z87

Performance Results


Gaming 7% Tree trunk	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 7% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 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 80.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	3.98% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	110% 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	10GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 10GB 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 (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 (all builds)
Memory	7.2 GB free of 10 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140818
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 04 '17 at 15:04
Run Duration	379 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	14%

PC Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4771-$129 11,180 User benchmarks, average bench 73% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	80.1% Excellent	Memory 88.3 1-Core 104 2-Core 214 77% 136 Pts	4-Core 393 8-Core 534 59% 463 Pts	64-Core 548 34% 548 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Asus(1043 8534) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4531 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	3.98% Terrible	Lighting 4.03 Reflection 6.77 Parallax 6.97 3% 5.92 fps	MRender 8.57 Gravity 2.43 Splatting 8.04 5% 6.35 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.98% Great: 3%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 74GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5190 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2215 (B1) Unknown 99 99 10 (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 68 59 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 100 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5297645464	110% Outstanding	Read 505 Write 409 Mixed 419 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 45.3 4K Write 81.6 4K Mixed 43.8 168% 56.9 MB/s	DQ Read 354 DQ Write 269 DQ Mixed 114 139% 246 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 124%
Samsung 840 120GB 1,438 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 45GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9305 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 4124 (B1) Unknown 83 83 198 (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 66 57 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 442 (F1) Unknown 99 99 39082797404	110% Outstanding	Read 489 Write 487 Mixed 488 109% 488 MB/s	4K Read 39.5 4K Write 89.1 4K Mixed 33.5 150% 54 MB/s	DQ Read 365 DQ Write 326 DQ Mixed 96.5 140% 262 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 102%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$62 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 100 20492056 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 20 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 22153 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 12 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 7 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 67 454492187 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 95 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 94489280539 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -133835475910649 (F1) Unknown 100 253 395811995 (F2) Unknown 100 253 16853206	107% Outstanding	Read 194 Write 178 Mixed 177 138% 183 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.22 84% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 114%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 101GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 132 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 70 69 9107 (04) Start/Stop count 85 85 15796 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 13568 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6119 (BF) G-sense error rate 252 252 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 60 171799085085 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 515 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 15858	63.4% Good	Read 101 Write 119 Mixed 106 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 0.47 122% 1.16 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 75%
Generic Flash Disk 16GB 18,883 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 5GB free, PID 6387 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	4.8% Terrible	Read 17.4 Write 3.77 Mixed 6.21 9% 9.13 MB/s	4K Read 5.99 4K Write 0.01 4K Mixed 0.01 23% 2.01 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 4.8% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CM3X2G1333C9 0215 CM3X2G1333C9 0215 CM3X2G1333C9 10GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 2048, 2048, 2048 MB Relative performance (0^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	34.2% Below average	MC Read 11.6 MC Write 12 MC Mixed 9.1 31% 10.9 GB/s	SC Read 10.7 SC Write 12.3 SC Mixed 10.3 32% 11.1 GB/s	Latency 69.2 58% 69.2 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 34.2% Great: 53%

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Gaming 60%

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Desktop 80%

Battleship

Workstation 50%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 - $193

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	855x
Core i7-4770Intel $65Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	175x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	173x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	128x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	106x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	86x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	63x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	56x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	54x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	40x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	40x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GBCorsairBench 55%, 18,444 samples	34x

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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $685

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $170	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $122	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $28	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