Asus Z87-A

Performance Results


Gaming 12% Tree trunk	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 10% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	8.91% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	34.3% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait 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	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-A (all builds)
Memory	4.7 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130701
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 25 '20 at 23:23
Run Duration	119 Seconds
Run User	PHL-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4590-$188 151,366 User benchmarks, average bench 63% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	78.8% Very good	Memory 89.9 1-Core 110 2-Core 212 79% 138 Pts	4-Core 390 8-Core 403 53% 396 Pts	64-Core 394 24% 394 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 78.8% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 650-$112 69,673 User benchmarks, average bench 8% Nvidia(10DE 0973) 1GB CLim: 1058 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 432.0 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	8.91% Terrible	Lighting 9.9 Reflection 9.42 Parallax 11.6 8% 10.3 fps	MRender 13.6 Gravity 12 Splatting 13 10% 12.9 fps
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 8.91% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Kingston A400 240GB-$28 424,288 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 123GB free (System drive) Firmware: S1Z40102 SusWrite @10s intervals: 204 140 57 56 25 17 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	34.3% Below average	Read 462 Write 392 Mixed 15.1 SusWrite 83.2 52% 238 MB/s	4K Read 23.5 4K Write 7.6 4K Mixed 0.5 40% 10.5 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 34.3% Great: 100%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 671GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 122 141 147 148 150 150 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	86% Excellent	Read 156 Write 143 Mixed 87.9 SusWrite 143 97% 132 MB/s	4K Read 1.4 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 1.2 238% 1.7 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 86% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905474-040.A00LF 99U5474-028.A00LF 8GB 38 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	51.3% Above average	MC Read 17.9 MC Write 18.4 MC Mixed 15.6 49% 17.3 GB/s	SC Read 14.8 SC Write 18.8 SC Mixed 16 47% 16.5 GB/s	Latency 67.3 59% 67.3 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 51.3% Great: 51%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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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 $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 $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