Asus SABERTOOTH Z87

Performance Results

Benchmarks - excluding SSD
Gaming 96% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 66% Battle cruiser	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 96.9%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	112% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Run History

10 months ago, 10 months ago, 10 months ago, 10 months ago, 10 months ago, 10 months ago, 10 months ago, 10 months ago, 10 months ago, 10 months ago, 10 months ago, 10 months ago, 10 months ago, 10 months ago, 10 months ago, 10 months ago, 9 months ago, 9 months ago, 9 months ago, 9 months ago, 9 months ago, 9 months ago, 9 months ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 (all builds)
Memory	6.1 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140818
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 10 '17 at 14:36
Run Duration	117 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Single core	Quad core	Multi core
Intel Core i5-4690K-$255 82,615 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	96.9% Outstanding	SC Int 130 SC Float 126 SC Mixed 129 103% 128 Pts	QC Int 529 QC Float 513 QC Mixed 510 117% 517 Pts	MC Int 520 MC Float 514 MC Mixed 522 78% 519 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 96.9% Great: 98%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$370 319,360 User benchmarks, average bench 98% PNY(196E 11A0) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2077 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	112% Outstanding	Lighting 346 Reflection 315 Parallax 375 110% 346 fps	MRender 218 Gravity 318 Splatting 251 112% 263 fps
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 250GB-$20 14,109 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 68GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC35 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 104 99 6749634 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1523 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 242436218 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8751 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 732 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 30065229835 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 47 521535518 (C2) HDA temperature 30 53 64424509470 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 52 32 6749634 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 65279207942480 (F1) Unknown 100 253 243361929 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3228738461	51.2% Above average	Read 96.4 Write 81.7 Mixed 75.4 63% 84.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.32 92% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 51.2% Great: 68%
Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 1TB-$90 9,832 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 43GB free Firmware: ST6OA31B Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 655361 (02) Throughput performance 131 131 118 (03) Spinup time 121 121 38685835739 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 6256 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 14 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 125 125 33 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 34886 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 4321 (C0) Power-off retract count 86 86 16884 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 16884 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 197569478689 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 14 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	41.9% Average	Read 77.1 Write 68.6 Mixed 81.9 57% 75.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.73 4K Mixed 0.28 79% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 41.9% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 29,309 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	65.6% Good	MC Read 22.9 MC Write 23.5 MC Mixed 20.5 64% 22.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 23.7 SC Mixed 21 59% 20.8 GB/s	Latency 54.8 73% 54.8 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 65.6% 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 62%

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Desktop 75%

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Workstation 55%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 - $193

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $471Bench 76%, 57,830 samples	1,445x
Core i5-4670KIntel $270Bench 78%, 51,721 samples	298x
Core i7-4770Intel $305Bench 73%, 44,112 samples	225x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $370Bench 64%, 316,961 samples	275x
GTX 1070Nvidia $370Bench 98%, 319,360 samples	250x
GTX 1080Nvidia $470Bench 124%, 279,230 samples	232x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $120Bench 114%, 219,138 samples	165x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 105%, 299,014 samples	161x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $207Bench 95%, 64,445 samples	122x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 53%, 11,487 samples	93x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 6,527 samples	79x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 58%, 36,823 samples	65x

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Value: 76% - Very good

Total price: $1,154

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-8700K $330	Nvidia GTX 1070 $370	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $95
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 $150	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $270	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $120
Intel Core i5-8600K $245	AMD RX 480 $280	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $163

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $44	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $155	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $80
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $80	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $901	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $30
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $175	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $12