Asus Z87-A

Performance Results


Gaming 95% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 80% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	127% 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	56.4% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-A (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140815
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 21 '18 at 23:18
Run Duration	126 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	29%

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	76.2% Very good	Memory 84.4 1-Core 107 2-Core 186 73% 126 Pts	4-Core 367 8-Core 582 58% 474 Pts	64-Core 577 36% 577 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 76.2% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3607) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below potential (72^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	127% Outstanding	Lighting 178 Reflection 186 Parallax 175 145% 180 fps	MRender 122 Gravity 174 Splatting 120 112% 139 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 127% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow KC300 240GB-$81 2,054 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 127GB free Firmware: 580ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 37011151 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 50869592660167 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 979 (0D) Soft read error rate 95 95 37011151 (64) Unknown 0 0 143836 (AA) Unknown 0 0 7488 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 27 (B1) Unknown 0 0 149 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 28 48 21477982236 (C2) HDA temperature 28 48 21477982236 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 37011151 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 120 120 -71678709202944 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 37011151 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 37011151 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 82 82 0 (E8) Unknown 0 0 29 (E9) Unknown 0 0 130875 (EA) Unknown 0 0 16071 (F1) Unknown 0 0 16071 (F2) Unknown 0 0 18113	87.8% Excellent	Read 510 Write 258 Mixed 272 76% 347 MB/s	4K Read 32.2 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 25 135% 53 MB/s	DQ Read 272 DQ Write 265 DQ Mixed 81.4 113% 206 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 94%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 50GB free (System drive) Firmware: 60AABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 36155261 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 9852654980872 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 436 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 36 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 27 34 64426737691 (C2) HDA temperature 27 34 64426737691 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 36155261 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 36155261 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 36155261 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 4294967296 (E9) Unknown 0 0 7188 (EA) Unknown 0 0 4401 (F1) Unknown 0 0 4401 (F2) Unknown 0 0 3643 (F4) Unknown 99 99 3866670	56.4% Above average	Read 438 Write 113 Mixed 162 52% 238 MB/s	4K Read 26.7 4K Write 91.3 4K Mixed 10.3 102% 42.7 MB/s	DQ Read 28.1 DQ Write 115 DQ Mixed 8.19 25% 50.5 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 56.4% Great: 73%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9965525-085.A00LF ACR512X64D3U13C9G 9965525-085.A00LF ACR512X64D3U13C9G 16GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	49.7% Average	MC Read 17 MC Write 18.4 MC Mixed 14.9 48% 16.8 GB/s	SC Read 13.9 SC Write 18.3 SC Mixed 16.7 47% 16.3 GB/s	Latency 72.7 55% 72.7 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 49.7% Great: 50%

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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	833x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	751x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	345x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	237x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	206x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	188x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	101x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	91x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	87x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	83x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	71x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	68x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $631

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $179	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