Asus Z87-A

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 60% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 69%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	109% 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	82.2% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (57%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-A (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1024 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131003
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 22 '17 at 03:06
Run Duration	224 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	57%

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PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	69% Good	Memory 77.9 1-Core 99.6 2-Core 188 70% 122 Pts	4-Core 324 8-Core 490 50% 407 Pts	64-Core 310 19% 310 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 8591) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	109% Outstanding	Lighting 144 Reflection 152 Parallax 131 117% 143 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 138 Splatting 113 100% 123 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M500 960GB-$59 4,389 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 497GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 247 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 32768 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2919 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 864 (AA) Unknown 100 100 18 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 24 (AE) Unknown 100 100 39 (B5) Unknown 100 100 4629987787631 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 828 (C2) HDA temperature 78 61 167504642070 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 4294967295 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 18 (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	82.2% Excellent	Read 481 Write 397 Mixed 434 97% 437 MB/s	4K Read 22.1 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 17.7 110% 47 MB/s	DQ Read 26.3 DQ Write 279 DQ Mixed 17.4 54% 108 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 82.2% Great: 101%
PNY USB 2.0 FD 8GB 270 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 3GB free, PID 0048 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	6.62% Terrible	Read 23 Write 7.81 Mixed 11.5 15% 14.1 MB/s	4K Read 6.62 4K Write 0.007 4K Mixed 0.007 25% 2.21 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 6.62% Great: 7%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GB 48,796 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	53.9% Above average	MC Read 20.5 MC Write 21.2 MC Mixed 18 57% 19.9 GB/s	SC Read 9.6 SC Write 13.5 SC Mixed 11.7 33% 11.6 GB/s	Latency 84.5 47% 84.5 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 53.9% Great: 63%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 60%

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 50%

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Motherboard: Asus Z87-A - $299

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	832x
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	90x
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 $275	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