Asus Z87-A

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 62% Destroyer


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 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 85.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	90.5% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	91.6% 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	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.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-A (all builds)
Memory	10.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140815
Uptime	2.2 Days
Run Date	Jan 08 '18 at 03:27
Run Duration	199 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

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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 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 (100^th percentile)	85.6% Excellent	Memory 95.3 1-Core 117 2-Core 234 85% 149 Pts	4-Core 438 8-Core 442 59% 440 Pts	64-Core 445 28% 445 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.5% Outstanding	Lighting 115 Reflection 119 Parallax 112 94% 116 fps	MRender 99.6 Gravity 105 Splatting 102 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 29GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9464 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2293 (B1) Unknown 91 91 105 (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 53 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 51 (F1) Unknown 99 99 32328219633	91.6% Outstanding	Read 485 Write 329 Mixed 328 84% 381 MB/s	4K Read 44.4 4K Write 69.6 4K Mixed 24.2 135% 46.1 MB/s	DQ Read 350 DQ Write 216 DQ Mixed 67.9 108% 211 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 91.6% Great: 108%
Seagate Backup+ Desk 4TB 3,378 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 2TB free Firmware: 040B Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	64.1% Good	Read 124 Write 97.9 Mixed 107 82% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 5.53 4K Mixed 0.53 190% 2.25 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 64.1% Great: 99%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$40 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 184GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 170 168 2466 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1257 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5078 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1197 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 6 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1250 (C2) HDA temperature 110 94 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	73.1% Very good	Read 156 Write 98.9 Mixed 120 94% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 2.24 4K Mixed 0.24 90% 1 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 73.1% Great: 108%
SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 32GB-$8 33,725 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 29GB free, PID 5581 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)	17.8% Very poor	Read 37.2 Write 20.6 Mixed 26 33% 27.9 MB/s	4K Read 5.83 4K Write 2.11 4K Mixed 0.51 111% 2.82 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 17.8% Great: 38%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown BLS4G3D18ADS3.16FK 1315 BLS4G3D18ADS3.16FE 1315 BLS4G3D18ADS3.16FK 1315 BLS4G3D18ADS3.16FE 16GB 11 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 1867, 1867, 1867, 1867 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	69.3% Good	MC Read 24.2 MC Write 26.1 MC Mixed 22.5 69% 24.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.3 SC Write 20.7 SC Mixed 20.7 56% 19.6 GB/s	Latency 56.2 71% 56.2 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 69.3% Great: 69%

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Gaming 60%

Destroyer

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 $90Bench 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 i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	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 $39	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