Asus Z87M-PLUS

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 55% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 81.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	83.4% 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	93.5% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z87M-PLUS (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20141104
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 13 '18 at 21:32
Run Duration	136 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing above expectations (70^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 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	81.4% Excellent	Memory 91.2 1-Core 108 2-Core 216 79% 138 Pts	4-Core 414 8-Core 419 56% 416 Pts	64-Core 419 26% 419 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 81.4% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8596) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 368.81 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	83.4% Excellent	Lighting 104 Reflection 114 Parallax 98.6 85% 105 fps	MRender 99.4 Gravity 95.8 Splatting 101 81% 98.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 83.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$150 38,097 User benchmarks, average bench 241% 715GB free Firmware: 1B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	153% Outstanding	Read 693 Write 529 Mixed 578 133% 600 MB/s	4K Read 54.9 4K Write 153 4K Mixed 43.8 220% 84 MB/s	DQ Read 698 DQ Write 526 DQ Mixed 321 319% 515 MB/s
Poor: 157% ↑ This bench: 153% Great: 302%
Crucial M500 960GB-$59 4,389 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 349GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2251 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 851968 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 137 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1594 (AA) Unknown 100 100 68 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 9 (AE) Unknown 100 100 62 (B5) Unknown 100 100 1984298811488 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 2686 (C2) HDA temperature 70 67 141735231518 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 4294967295 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 68 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	102% Outstanding	Read 483 Write 424 Mixed 445 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 24.3 4K Write 136 4K Mixed 28.5 145% 63 MB/s	DQ Read 315 DQ Write 316 DQ Mixed 56.6 114% 229 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 101%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 110GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0 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 6474 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2628 (B1) Unknown 98 98 16 (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 67 53 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1083 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9870502933	93.5% Outstanding	Read 489 Write 340 Mixed 348 87% 392 MB/s	4K Read 41.1 4K Write 84.5 4K Mixed 23.9 138% 49.8 MB/s	DQ Read 349 DQ Write 232 DQ Mixed 78.1 116% 220 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 118%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 23,732 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	61.7% Good	MC Read 22 MC Write 22.8 MC Mixed 19.6 61% 21.5 GB/s	SC Read 15.7 SC Write 19.7 SC Mixed 19.5 52% 18.3 GB/s	Latency 65.5 61% 65.5 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 61.7% Great: 61%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Asus Z87M-PLUS - $138

CPU
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	138x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	112x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	107x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	47x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	44x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	30x

SSD
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	36x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	26x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	19x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	14x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x4GBKingstonBench 60%, 17,012 samples	13x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	12x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $367

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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