Asus Z87-A

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 78% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 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 71.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	132% 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	80.5% 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-A (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130517
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 21 '17 at 20:52
Run Duration	119 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (47^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 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	71.6% Very good	Memory 66.6 1-Core 115 2-Core 232 75% 138 Pts	4-Core 413 8-Core 594 63% 503 Pts	64-Core 617 38% 617 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 71.6% Great: 84%

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: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	132% Outstanding	Lighting 187 Reflection 201 Parallax 196 152% 195 fps	MRender 126 Gravity 177 Splatting 126 116% 143 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 132% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra Plus 128GB-$75 16,709 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 56GB free (System drive) Firmware: X2306RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 16912 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1080 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 40 (A8) Unknown 100 100 489 (A9) Unknown 100 100 160 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 373 (AE) Unknown 100 100 154 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 37 158914773019 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 3115 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 48568 (F1) Unknown 253 253 15965 (F2) Unknown 253 253 10996 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	80.5% Excellent	Read 415 Write 278 Mixed 267 71% 320 MB/s	4K Read 31 4K Write 97.3 4K Mixed 22.6 127% 50.3 MB/s	DQ Read 230 DQ Write 200 DQ Mixed 47.2 81% 159 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 91%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 147GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 119104352 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3855 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 4518318106 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 22402 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1394 (B7) Unknown 86 86 14 (B8) Unknown 94 94 6 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 1 17180264573 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 71 59 487850013 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 185 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 52 52 96000 (C2) HDA temperature 29 41 60129542173 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 8 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 44543105841437 (F1) Unknown 100 253 80501493556 (F2) Unknown 100 253 122903346076	85.4% Excellent	Read 149 Write 149 Mixed 140 110% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 0.98 4K Mixed 0.3 78% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 85.4% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CML8GX3M2B1600C11 0215 CML8GX3M2A1600C9 0215 CML8GX3M2B1600C11 0215 CML8GX3M2A1600C9 16GB 28 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 800, 800, 800, 800 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	28.9% Poor	MC Read 10.1 MC Write 10.6 MC Mixed 8.2 28% 9.63 GB/s	SC Read 8.7 SC Write 9.9 SC Mixed 9.2 26% 9.27 GB/s	Latency 110 36% 110 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 28.9% Great: 64%

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Gaming 60%

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Desktop 80%

Battleship

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