Asus SABERTOOTH Z87

Performance Results


Gaming 44% Speed boat	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 37% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (82nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 18 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 91.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	99.1% 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	109% 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	4GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and although it's sufficient for most games, some will benefit from up to 8GB of RAM. 4GB is also enough for modest file and system caches which allow for a responsive system.
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.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 (all builds)
Memory	2.5 GB free of 4 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140818
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 20 '18 at 08:51
Run Duration	103 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing above expectations (82^nd 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 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.2% Outstanding	Memory 97 1-Core 130 2-Core 262 91% 163 Pts	4-Core 460 8-Core 694 72% 577 Pts	64-Core 695 43% 695 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 91.2% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6274) CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2193 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.64 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	99.1% Outstanding	Lighting 127 Reflection 127 Parallax 123 103% 125 fps	MRender 110 Gravity 111 Splatting 112 91% 111 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 99.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 107GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2351 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 235 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 69 61 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 35 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5817173750	109% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 417 Mixed 227 86% 387 MB/s	4K Read 41.4 4K Write 86.5 4K Mixed 46.5 168% 58.1 MB/s	DQ Read 284 DQ Write 216 DQ Mixed 115 123% 205 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 134%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 337GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 167 2300 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4961 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 58 58 30880 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 746 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 348 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4638 (C2) HDA temperature 119 100 24 (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	94.3% Outstanding	Read 177 Write 152 Mixed 110 109% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 2.27 4K Mixed 0.29 101% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 94.3% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1866 C9 1x4GB 189 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 1 of 4 slots used 4GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	40% Below average	MC Read 13.1 MC Write 12.8 MC Mixed 11 35% 12.3 GB/s	SC Read 12.5 SC Write 13.9 SC Mixed 13.3 38% 13.2 GB/s	Latency 50.2 80% 50.2 ns
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 40% Great: 39%

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Gaming 61%

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 50%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 - $193

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	845x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	173x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	169x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	124x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	106x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	84x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	62x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	56x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	53x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	40x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	39x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GBCorsairBench 55%, 18,444 samples	34x

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Value: 90% - Excellent

Total price: $555

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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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