Asus Z87-A

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 60% Destroyer


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 an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: 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 85.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	81.1% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	114% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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	10.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit väriä
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140815
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 18 '18 at 15:40
Run Duration	206 Seconds
Run User	FIN-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing above expectations (75^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	85.9% Excellent	Memory 94.3 1-Core 126 2-Core 246 88% 156 Pts	4-Core 418 8-Core 654 66% 536 Pts	64-Core 653 40% 653 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 85.9% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 85A0) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.1% Excellent	Lighting 101 Reflection 112 Parallax 93.5 82% 102 fps	MRender 95.7 Gravity 95 Splatting 99 79% 96.5 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 81.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 80GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3924 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 776 (B1) Unknown 99 99 21 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 61 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 8 (F1) Unknown 99 99 17673296446	114% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 411 Mixed 420 100% 447 MB/s	4K Read 47.3 4K Write 95.6 4K Mixed 48 184% 63.6 MB/s	DQ Read 312 DQ Write 215 DQ Mixed 114 125% 214 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$63 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 156578888 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2731 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 58 58 111686451201 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13900 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2598 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 91 91 9 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 70 58 504823838 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 20 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 68 68 64592 (C2) HDA temperature 30 42 42949672990 (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 -122303488711561 (F1) Unknown 100 253 25259839948 (F2) Unknown 100 253 15916351849	107% Outstanding	Read 187 Write 187 Mixed 164 135% 179 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.36 92% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 509GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 182626576 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2750 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 13149152280 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14068 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2677 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 71 57 488046621 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 25 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 39 39 123233 (C2) HDA temperature 29 43 38654705693 (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 123579094017457 (F1) Unknown 100 253 50219422715 (F2) Unknown 100 253 66627777175	99.5% Outstanding	Read 174 Write 173 Mixed 160 127% 169 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.24 81% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 99.5% Great: 112%
SanDisk Cruzer Blade 16GB 60,539 User benchmarks, average bench 11% 13GB free, PID 5567 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Read 37.7 Write 4.02 16% 20.9 MB/s
Poor: 5% Great: 17%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D169DS3.16FE 2x8GB 1,803 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	59.1% Above average	MC Read 20.7 MC Write 21.4 MC Mixed 17.7 57% 19.9 GB/s	SC Read 15.9 SC Write 22.4 SC Mixed 19.1 55% 19.1 GB/s	Latency 59 68% 59 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 59.1% Great: 63%

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Gaming 60%

Destroyer

Desktop 80%

Battleship

Workstation 50%

Yacht

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 $130Bench 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 $273	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 $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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