Asus Z87-A

Performance Results


Gaming 51% Yacht	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 44% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 77.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	64.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	20% is an extremely low SSD score, this system will benefit from a faster SSD.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

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Motherboard	Asus Z87-A (all builds)
Memory	2.4 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131213
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Feb 06 '18 at 07:49
Run Duration	217 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	28%

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PC Performing as expected (55^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	77.3% Very good	Memory 87.7 1-Core 106 2-Core 208 77% 134 Pts	4-Core 361 8-Core 575 58% 468 Pts	64-Core 579 36% 579 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 77.3% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% EVGA(3842 6267) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	64.1% Good	Lighting 80.8 Reflection 82.1 Parallax 70 66% 77.6 fps	MRender 67 Gravity 74.9 Splatting 78 61% 73.3 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 64.1% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 127GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1839 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 212 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 61 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 5 (F1) Unknown 99 99 461319910	77.9% Very good	Read 403 Write 350 Mixed 304 78% 352 MB/s	4K Read 38.8 4K Write 67.1 4K Mixed 24.7 126% 43.5 MB/s	DQ Read 42.7 DQ Write 97.1 DQ Mixed 21.6 30% 53.8 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 77.9% Great: 124%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$36 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 31GB free (System drive) Firmware: 521ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 49377718 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 -82420422396764 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1848 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 108 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 30 42 34362490910 (C2) HDA temperature 30 42 34362490910 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 49377718 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 49377718 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 49377718 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 16239 (EA) Unknown 0 0 12917 (F1) Unknown 0 0 12917 (F2) Unknown 0 0 17361	20% Very poor	Read 136 Write 66.1 Mixed 95.8 22% 99.2 MB/s	4K Read 13.2 4K Write 10.1 4K Mixed 6.42 34% 9.9 MB/s	DQ Read 16.7 DQ Write 11.4 DQ Mixed 6.78 7% 11.6 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 20% Great: 73%
WD Green 1.5TB (2009)-$150 16,916 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 809GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 176 5966 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12426 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 24381 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4556 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 199 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 143 143 173186 (C2) HDA temperature 117 97 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	49.1% Average	Read 87.5 Write 83.8 Mixed 83.3 64% 84.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 0.91 4K Mixed 0.27 70% 0.58 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 49.1% Great: 55%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 576GB free Firmware: 05.00K05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 232 230 8375 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5574 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 64 64 26421 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3682 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 213 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5574 (C2) HDA temperature 113 104 37 (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 13617 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	54.9% Above average	Read 107 Write 84.3 Mixed 41.5 57% 77.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.24 93% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 54.9% Great: 76%
WD My Passport 0830 1TB 8,379 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 308GB free, PID 0830 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	34.1% Below average	Read 65.8 Write 86.4 Mixed 74.4 101% 75.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.25 73% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 34.1% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905403-174.A00LF 9905403-174.A00LF 9905402-414.A00LF 9905402-414.A00LF 8GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 2048, 2048, 2048, 2048 MB Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	50.6% Above average	MC Read 17.7 MC Write 18.4 MC Mixed 15.1 49% 17.1 GB/s	SC Read 13.4 SC Write 18.5 SC Mixed 17.2 47% 16.4 GB/s	Latency 69.9 57% 69.9 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 50.6% Great: 52%

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Workstation 50%

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Motherboard: Asus Z87-A - $299

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	839x
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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Total price: $627

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	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) $39	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