Asus Z87-A

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 81.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86.6% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-A (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140815
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 16 '17 at 07:31
Run Duration	330 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing above expectations (63^rd 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 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	81.1% Excellent	Memory 96.6 1-Core 110 2-Core 216 82% 141 Pts	4-Core 379 8-Core 392 51% 385 Pts	64-Core 408 25% 408 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 81.1% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$278 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3302) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2027 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.28 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	86.6% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 112 Parallax 96.1 90% 106 fps	MRender 95.4 Gravity 97.6 Splatting 100 80% 97.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 63GB free Firmware: 505CUA Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 105 11706047 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 -120765890416867 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1557 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 141 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 28 70 1009321902108 (C2) HDA temperature 28 70 1009321902108 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 11706047 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 11706047 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 11706047 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4831 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1386 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1386 (F2) Unknown 0 0 45205	75.2% Very good	Read 517 Write 209 Mixed 178 66% 301 MB/s	4K Read 24.9 4K Write 87.8 4K Mixed 21.3 112% 44.7 MB/s	DQ Read 174 DQ Write 221 DQ Mixed 62.8 85% 153 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 75.2% Great: 85%
Sandisk S128G 126GB 21,984 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 15GB free Firmware: 3.1.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6601 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 875 (A5) Unknown 100 100 42845 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 10 (AE) Unknown 100 100 869 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 27 180389412891 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 33 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 14 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1129572193 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2052137988	47.3% Average	Read 440 Write 253 Mixed 343 76% 345 MB/s	4K Read 16.2 4K Write 16.5 4K Mixed 8.75 45% 13.8 MB/s	DQ Read 35 DQ Write 17.8 DQ Mixed 9.51 12% 20.8 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 47.3% Great: 56%
Intel Raid 1 Volume 2TB 21 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 405GB free Firmware: 1.0. Max speed: Unknown Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	15.1% Very poor	Read 3.64 Write 48.6 Mixed 1.2 13% 17.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.09 4K Write 1.69 4K Mixed 0.25 63% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 15.1% Great: 72%
Intel Raid 1 Volume 805GB 21 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 238GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. Max speed: Unknown Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	31.2% Below average	Read 2.75 Write 106 Mixed 6.7 28% 38.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.44 100% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 31.2% Great: 71%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsZ DDR3 2133 C9 4x4GB 3,160 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	81.9% Excellent	MC Read 29.8 MC Write 30.7 MC Mixed 27.2 84% 29.2 GB/s	SC Read 19.4 SC Write 19.8 SC Mixed 25.2 61% 21.5 GB/s	Latency 52 77% 52 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 121%

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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%

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Workstation 50%

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Motherboard: Asus Z87-A - $299

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	849x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	766x
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 $137Bench 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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Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $388	WD Black SN850X M.2 1TB $79
Intel Core i5-12400F $110	Nvidia RTX 4070 $520	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $363