Asus Z87-A

Performance Results


Gaming 21% Surfboard	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 19% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	21.4% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	112% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 11 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-A (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140815
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 04 '16 at 21:02
Run Duration	181 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770-$75 176,321 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	78.2% Very good	Memory 89 1-Core 111 2-Core 221 80% 140 Pts	4-Core 364 8-Core 582 58% 473 Pts	64-Core 587 36% 587 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 78.2% Great: 78%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Asus(1043 8534) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 10.18.14.4414 Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	2.01% Terrible	Lighting 3.73 Reflection 6.08 Parallax 6.31 3% 5.37 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 2.01% Great: 3%
AMD HD 6950-$290 24,657 User benchmarks, average bench 19% Sapphire(174B 186B) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	21.4% Poor	Lighting 27.4 Reflection 21.6 Parallax 23.9 22% 24.3 fps	MRender 21.2 Gravity 21.7 Splatting 27.7 20% 23.5 fps
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 21.4% Great: 21%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 259GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3134 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 707 (B1) Unknown 98 98 24 (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 60 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 127 (EB) Unknown 99 99 88 (F1) Unknown 99 99 27287872813	112% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 407 Mixed 217 83% 378 MB/s	4K Read 44.4 4K Write 96.3 4K Mixed 48.1 180% 62.9 MB/s	DQ Read 281 DQ Write 222 DQ Mixed 120 126% 208 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 134%
WD WD10EAVS-00D7B1 1TB 26,179 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 908GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 189 185 6541 (04) Start/Stop count 60 60 40170 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10323 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 61 61 39966 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 305 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 149 149 155889 (C2) HDA temperature 112 96 35 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 199 199 305 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 199 69 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 194 173 1388	56.5% Above average	Read 93.1 Write 104 Mixed 7.92 49% 68.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.36 95% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 56.5% Great: 51%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 454GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 168 2375 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1444 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6468 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1275 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 174 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1269 (C2) HDA temperature 114 105 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 6 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	96.3% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 163 Mixed 112 111% 149 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 2.33 4K Mixed 0.32 106% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 96.3% Great: 109%
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250G 250GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 237% 233GB free, PID null Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	383% Outstanding	Read 338 Write 348 Mixed 320 432% 335 MB/s	4K Read 36.6 4K Write 81.3 4K Mixed 27 3,818% 48.3 MB/s	DQ Read 38.5 DQ Write 84.4 DQ Mixed 26.5 3,912% 49.8 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 383% Great: 383%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLT4G3D1608DT2TXOB 4x4GB 193 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (43^rd percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	50.7% Above average	MC Read 18.1 MC Write 18.2 MC Mixed 15.3 49% 17.2 GB/s	SC Read 13.5 SC Write 18.3 SC Mixed 16 46% 15.9 GB/s	Latency 68.5 58% 68.5 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 50.7% Great: 73%

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

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Workstation 50%

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Motherboard: Asus Z87-A - $299

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	850x
Core i5-4670KIntel $100Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	768x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	354x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	239x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	208x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	193x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	103x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	91x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	88x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	83x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	73x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	70x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $154	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	WD Black SN850X M.2 2TB $150
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $388	WD Black SN850X M.2 1TB $90
Intel Core i5-12400F $110	Nvidia RTX 4070 $520	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $353