Asus SABERTOOTH Z87

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 104% UFO	Desktop 80% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 80% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 80.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	135% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130517
Uptime	2.1 Days
Run Date	May 31 '17 at 17:14
Run Duration	163 Seconds
Run User	IND-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (65^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 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	80.3% Excellent	Memory 88.9 1-Core 104 2-Core 215 78% 136 Pts	4-Core 416 8-Core 406 55% 411 Pts	64-Core 417 26% 417 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3602) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	135% Outstanding	Lighting 192 Reflection 206 Parallax 203 157% 200 fps	MRender 131 Gravity 180 Splatting 130 119% 147 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 135% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD RE4 1TB (2010)-$54 23,775 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 202GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.01V02 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 61 (03) Spinup time 175 172 4241 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3965 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6635 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3942 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 104 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3860 (C2) HDA temperature 114 100 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	46.6% Average	Read 71.3 Write 91.3 Mixed 97 66% 86.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.17 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.23 58% 0.59 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 46.6% Great: 76%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$32 107,978 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 57GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 15443198 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7669 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 16913534 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4574 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 37 5921 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 92 92 8 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 53 505085982 (C2) HDA temperature 30 47 85899345950 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 23 21 15443198 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 180 919 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -61632780677934 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3386760129 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2302778672	54.4% Above average	Read 103 Write 86.3 Mixed 70.3 65% 86.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.43 91% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 54.4% Great: 70%
Seagate ST3250310AS 250GB-$44 34,705 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 21GB free Firmware: 4.AAA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11380 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 294357708 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 9940 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 92 92 8931 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 47 890568738 (C2) HDA temperature 34 53 90194313250 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 71 51 112979744 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	40.5% Average	Read 75.4 Write 65.8 Mixed 88.3 58% 76.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 1.13 4K Mixed 0.38 78% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 40.5% Great: 54%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 22,320 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	61.4% Good	MC Read 21.5 MC Write 23 MC Mixed 20.2 62% 21.6 GB/s	SC Read 15.7 SC Write 19.1 SC Mixed 18.4 51% 17.7 GB/s	Latency 68.6 58% 68.6 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 63%

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Gaming 61%

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Desktop 80%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 50%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 - $193

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	847x
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 $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	85x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	62x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	56x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	54x

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: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $540

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16