Asus Z87-A

Performance Results


Gaming 41% Speed boat	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 33% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 70.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	53.2% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	77.8% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (60%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-A (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131003
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 15 '17 at 12:51
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	AUT-User
Background CPU	60%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4670K-$62 128,482 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	70.1% Very good	Memory 94.6 1-Core 110 2-Core 160 74% 121 Pts	4-Core 257 8-Core 312 37% 285 Pts	64-Core 335 21% 335 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 290-$399 68,699 User benchmarks, average bench 46% Sapphire(174B E285) CLim: 1000 MHz, MLim: 1300 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.7.1 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	53.2% Above average	Lighting 66.1 Reflection 59.3 Parallax 78.7 54% 68.1 fps	MRender 58.9 Gravity 52.8 Splatting 74.4 52% 62 fps
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 53.2% Great: 50%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 167GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2498 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 553 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 68 51 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 22 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5604337033	99.9% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 407 Mixed 423 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 33.3 4K Write 89.5 4K Mixed 29.6 136% 50.8 MB/s	DQ Read 351 DQ Write 286 DQ Mixed 129 148% 255 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 99.9% Great: 133%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 45GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 4 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5689 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 986 (B1) Unknown 91 91 105 (B3) Unknown 99 99 4 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 99 99 4 (BB) vendor-specific 99 99 20 (BE) vendor-specific 60 56 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 199 199 20 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 44 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23386555064	77.8% Very good	Read 483 Write 328 Mixed 330 84% 380 MB/s	4K Read 34.6 4K Write 69.2 4K Mixed 17.9 112% 40.6 MB/s	DQ Read 36.7 DQ Write 228 DQ Mixed 17 47% 94 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 108%
WD WD740ADFD-00NLR1 74GB 1,081 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 46GB free Firmware: 21.07QR4 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 168 164 2633 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3832 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 19432 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3175 (C2) HDA temperature 105 87 38 (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 200 253 550 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	29.6% Poor	Read 55.1 Write 47.7 Mixed 47.6 38% 50.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.93 4K Mixed 0.5 118% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 29.6% Great: 48%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 19,207 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	62.4% Good	MC Read 21.8 MC Write 22.8 MC Mixed 19.6 61% 21.4 GB/s	SC Read 14.6 SC Write 22.8 SC Mixed 19.2 54% 18.9 GB/s	Latency 58.3 69% 58.3 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 62.4% Great: 62%

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Gaming 60%

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Desktop 80%

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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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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) $30	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