Asus Z87-A

Performance Results


Gaming 127% UFO	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 99% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 93.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	137% 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	40.2% 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 (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-A (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130819
Uptime	7.8 Days
Run Date	Jun 02 '18 at 17:27
Run Duration	117 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	21%

PC Performing above expectations (79^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.2% Outstanding	Memory 97.6 1-Core 131 2-Core 258 92% 162 Pts	4-Core 513 8-Core 515 69% 514 Pts	64-Core 516 32% 516 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 93.2% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85E4) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	137% Outstanding	Lighting 194 Reflection 210 Parallax 209 158% 204 fps	MRender 136 Gravity 189 Splatting 135 124% 153 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 137% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
St1000lm024 HN-M101MBB 750GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 327GB free Firmware: M0CR050 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3735 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 634 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 34 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 75 53 201864380441 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 1225034393 (F7) Unknown 100 100 38304797 (F8) Unknown 100 100 18038417 (B4) Unknown 0 0 3573 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	96.6% Outstanding	Read 483 Write 477 Mixed 453 105% 471 MB/s	4K Read 20.6 4K Write 79.8 4K Mixed 28.9 110% 43.1 MB/s	DQ Read 337 DQ Write 309 DQ Mixed 17.5 97% 221 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 96.6% Great: 97%
Corsair Force 3 120GB-$109 22,358 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 62GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.07 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 104 104 9748971 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15341623196702 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 622 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 75 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 9748971 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 9748971 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 9748971 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 13531 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11535 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11535 (F2) Unknown 0 0 15944	40.2% Average	Read 197 Write 102 Mixed 114 30% 138 MB/s	4K Read 18.8 4K Write 78.9 4K Mixed 8.86 82% 35.5 MB/s	DQ Read 21.4 DQ Write 111 DQ Mixed 7.74 23% 46.8 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 40.2% Great: 61%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 2000 C9 4x4GB 488 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2000 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	78% Very good	MC Read 27 MC Write 28.8 MC Mixed 25.2 77% 27 GB/s	SC Read 20.7 SC Write 24.1 SC Mixed 23.8 65% 22.9 GB/s	Latency 47.8 84% 47.8 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 77%

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Workstation 50%

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Motherboard: Asus Z87-A - $299

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	833x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	749x
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	187x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	101x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	91x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 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	67x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $631

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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