Asus Z87-PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 75% Battleship


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 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%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	110% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	56.3% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-PRO (all builds)
Memory	5.1 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140128
Uptime	8.1 Days
Run Date	Sep 10 '16 at 19:40
Run Duration	177 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

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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 i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	78% Very good	Memory 96.5 1-Core 112 2-Core 194 79% 134 Pts	4-Core 322 8-Core 571 54% 447 Pts	64-Core 638 40% 638 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$245 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3367) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 21.21.13.7270 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	110% Outstanding	Lighting 148 Reflection 151 Parallax 130 121% 143 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 140 Splatting 107 97% 120 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0 250GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 127% 108GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2219 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 417 (B1) Unknown 99 99 6 (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 65 55 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 51 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1551705706	134% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 497 Mixed 508 113% 506 MB/s	4K Read 47.5 4K Write 136 4K Mixed 57.8 218% 80.5 MB/s	DQ Read 371 DQ Write 344 DQ Mixed 121 156% 279 MB/s
Poor: 121% ↑ This bench: 134% Great: 134%
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 16GB free (System drive) Firmware: 502ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 104 104 7778305 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 44753559237461 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2082 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 1193 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 31 76 64429490207 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 7778305 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 7778305 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 7778305 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 13174 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11193 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11193 (F2) Unknown 0 0 17277	56.3% Above average	Read 414 Write 138 Mixed 189 54% 247 MB/s	4K Read 19.8 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 9.19 101% 47.1 MB/s	DQ Read 22.1 DQ Write 104 DQ Mixed 7.61 22% 44.6 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 56.3% Great: 87%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1TB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 169 163 6550 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5805 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 13443 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2152 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 446 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 188 188 36587 (C2) HDA temperature 120 92 30 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	42% Average	Read 114 Write 32.3 Mixed 54.1 50% 66.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 0.91 4K Mixed 0.11 48% 0.49 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 42% Great: 67%
WD Blue 1TB (2010)-$128 11,448 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 29GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 173 4116 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6037 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 15818 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2542 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 502 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5534 (C2) HDA temperature 115 82 32 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 2	59.1% Above average	Read 111 Write 95.2 Mixed 106 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.95 4K Mixed 0.33 97% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 59.1% Great: 74%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1866 C9 2x4GB 8,627 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	65.9% Good	MC Read 22.3 MC Write 24.8 MC Mixed 20.9 65% 22.7 GB/s	SC Read 15.8 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 19.5 55% 19.1 GB/s	Latency 52.4 76% 52.4 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 71%

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Gaming 10%

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Desktop 69%

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Workstation 9%

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Motherboard: Asus Z87-PRO - $225

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	1,091x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	422x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	235x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	170x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	158x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	158x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	106x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $75Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	100x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	97x

RAM
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	59x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	52x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	52x

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Value: 63% - Good

Total price: $450

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	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 $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16