Asus Z87-A

Performance Results


Gaming 88% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	113% 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	62.5% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (36%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-A (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140815
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 19 '23 at 17:45
Run Duration	164 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	36%

PC Performing as expected (60^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, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	77% Very good	Memory 92 1-Core 115 2-Core 225 82% 144 Pts	4-Core 357 8-Core 375 48% 366 Pts	64-Core 385 24% 385 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 77% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 6650-XT 4,246 User benchmarks, average bench 110% MSI(1462 5027) ≥ 4GB Ram: 8GB, Driver: 22.11.2 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	113% Outstanding	Lighting 122 Reflection 143 Parallax 255 99% 173 fps	MRender 223 Gravity 126 Splatting 196 149% 182 fps
Poor: 105% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 116%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 120GB-$109 51,792 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 12GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXT08B0Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 102 92 93 77 63 49 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	62.5% Good	Read 427 Write 131 Mixed 124 SusWrite 79.2 42% 190 MB/s	4K Read 25.3 4K Write 75.9 4K Mixed 19 103% 40.1 MB/s	DQ Read 334 DQ Write 128 DQ Mixed 46.6 83% 170 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 62.5% Great: 73%
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 76GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 298 155 148 151 149 150 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	98.7% Outstanding	Read 433 Write 418 Mixed 316 SusWrite 175 75% 335 MB/s	4K Read 40.1 4K Write 89.4 4K Mixed 52.1 175% 60.5 MB/s	DQ Read 380 DQ Write 348 DQ Mixed 352 267% 360 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 98.7% Great: 115%
SHGP31-2000GM 2TB 2,208 User benchmarks, average bench 335% 2TB free Firmware: 31060C20 SusWrite @10s intervals: 548 623 620 676 682 686 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	157% Outstanding	Read 622 Write 545 Mixed 562 SusWrite 639 134% 592 MB/s	4K Read 46 4K Write 91.4 4K Mixed 58.3 193% 65.2 MB/s	DQ Read 775 DQ Write 716 DQ Mixed 889 628% 793 MB/s
Poor: 214% ↑ This bench: 157% Great: 446%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$32 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 281GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 131 131 129 133 130 132 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	79.8% Very good	Read 147 Write 143 Mixed 72.4 SusWrite 131 90% 123 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 3 4K Mixed 1 217% 1.73 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 79.8% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 1315 BLS4G3D1339DS1S00. 1315 BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 1315 BLS4G3D1339DS1S00. 16GB 36 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1600, 1333, 1600, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.4% Good	MC Read 22.1 MC Write 23.5 MC Mixed 19.8 62% 21.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.8 SC Write 22.2 SC Mixed 20.4 58% 20.1 GB/s	Latency 64 62% 64 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 61%

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Gaming 60%

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Desktop 80%

Battleship

Workstation 50%

Yacht

Motherboard: Asus Z87-A - $299

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	838x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	761x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	348x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	237x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	207x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	190x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	103x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	91x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	88x

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 i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $500	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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