Asus Z87-K

Performance Results


Gaming 102% UFO	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 85% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 97%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	103% 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	65.6% 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.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus Z87-K (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141105
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jan 05 '18 at 05:48
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	THA-User
Background CPU	24%

PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	97% Outstanding	Memory 98.5 1-Core 136 2-Core 264 94% 166 Pts	4-Core 524 8-Core 696 78% 610 Pts	64-Core 712 44% 712 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 97% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% Zotac(19DA 2445) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	Lighting 134 Reflection 144 Parallax 123 109% 134 fps	MRender 98.8 Gravity 127 Splatting 110 92% 112 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 208GB free Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile)	174% Outstanding	Read 1,318 Write 933 Mixed 984 239% 1,078 MB/s	4K Read 52.9 4K Write 120 4K Mixed 31.8 184% 68.2 MB/s	DQ Read 49.4 DQ Write 420 DQ Mixed 19.9 79% 163 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 174% Great: 236%
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 71GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 94 94 17751997 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 -139328739078353 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2662 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 87 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 17751997 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 17751997 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 17751997 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 5071 (EA) Unknown 0 0 4790 (F1) Unknown 0 0 4790 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11009	65.6% Good	Read 488 Write 133 Mixed 183 58% 268 MB/s	4K Read 32.6 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 13.5 122% 50.2 MB/s	DQ Read 19.6 DQ Write 131 DQ Mixed 45 44% 65.2 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 65.6% Great: 82%
Seagate ST380815AS 80GB-$32 16,844 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 12GB free Firmware: 3.AAD Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 94 155378713 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6858 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 208927820 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6631 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4270 (BB) vendor-specific 66 66 34 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 37 589234211 (C2) HDA temperature 35 63 94489280547 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 82 71 19959290 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 197 365 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	32.2% Below average	Read 55 Write 56.9 Mixed 55.6 42% 55.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.4 92% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 32.2% Great: 42%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 4x4GB 4,979 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	86.8% Excellent	MC Read 31.6 MC Write 32.5 MC Mixed 26.8 87% 30.3 GB/s	SC Read 20.4 SC Write 24.7 SC Mixed 28.6 70% 24.6 GB/s	Latency 43.9 91% 43.9 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 86.8% Great: 103%

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

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Motherboard: Asus Z87-K - $134

CPU
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	508x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	438x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	361x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	169x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	140x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	137x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	79x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	58x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	55x

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	84x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	63x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	50x

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Value: 75% - Very good

Total price: $412

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