Asus SABERTOOTH Z87

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battle cruiser	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 55% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	73.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	66.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 8 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20130626
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Apr 15 '18 at 22:18
Run Duration	113 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st 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 i7-4770K-$490 47,068 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	80% Very good	SC Int 107 SC Float 108 SC Mixed 107 86% 107 Pts	QC Int 400 QC Float 402 QC Mixed 403 91% 402 Pts	MC Int 547 MC Float 585 MC Mixed 575 85% 569 Pts
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 80% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-3GB-$230 88,618 User benchmarks, average bench 67% EVGA(3842 6367) 3GB CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 391.24 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	73.3% Very good	Lighting 238 Reflection 195 Parallax 210 70% 214 fps	MRender 150 Gravity 210 Splatting 169 75% 176 fps
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 73.3% Great: 74%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 530 Series 240GB-$149 6,246 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 74GB free Firmware: DC12 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s SYSTEM NCQ 4KALIGNED SSD TRIM S.M.A.R.T Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 95262374631928 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2943 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 15 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 27 34 60131770395 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 15 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 168766 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 56 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 98 98 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 168766 (F2) Unknown 100 100 223405 (F9) Unknown 100 100 34304	66.3% Good	Read 468 Write 207 Mixed 255 68% 310 MB/s	4K Read 18.9 4K Write 70.2 4K Mixed 15.5 86% 34.9 MB/s	DQ Read 235 DQ Write 201 DQ Mixed 48 82% 162 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 66.3% Great: 86%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$58 194,279 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s NCQ 7200 RPM 4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 68356552 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6864 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 70171916 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12688 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3136 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 62 43437457431 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 918 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 45 45 111345 (C2) HDA temperature 23 40 -140737488355305 (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 49301929599089 (F1) Unknown 100 253 7038945475 (F2) Unknown 100 253 27186777832	82.3% Excellent	Read 142 Write 145 Mixed 148 110% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.28 4K Mixed 0.27 80% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-047.A00LF 2x8GB 99 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	52% Above average	MC Read 18.2 MC Write 18.6 MC Mixed 16.1 50% 17.6 GB/s	SC Read 13.7 SC Write 18.7 SC Mixed 17.4 47% 16.6 GB/s	Latency 68.8 58% 68.8 ns
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 52% Great: 54%

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

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Gaming 62%

Destroyer

Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 54%

Yacht

Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 - $193

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $490Bench 80%, 47,068 samples	1,184x
Core i5-4670KIntel $270Bench 81%, 42,904 samples	248x
Core i7-4770Intel $305Bench 75%, 35,662 samples	181x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $370Bench 64%, 247,983 samples	229x
GTX 1070Nvidia $447Bench 100%, 265,250 samples	208x
GTX 770Nvidia $279Bench 48%, 45,185 samples	191x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $80Bench 94%, 274,376 samples	142x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $137Bench 96%, 191,118 samples	138x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $174Bench 79%, 69,055 samples	102x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 53%, 10,309 samples	82x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 5,553 samples	56x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 57%, 31,182 samples	53x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $1,132

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-8700K $330	Nvidia GTX 1070 $447	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $80
Intel Core i7-7700K $290	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $310	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $137
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 $170	AMD RX 480 $350	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $163

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $44	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $190	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $70
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $80	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $957	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $45
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $60	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $204	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $12