Asus Z87-A

Performance Results


Gaming 66% Battle cruiser	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (88th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 12 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 94.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	64.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	105% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-A (all builds)
Memory	26.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131213
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 12 '18 at 19:31
Run Duration	188 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.2% Outstanding	Memory 97.5 1-Core 137 2-Core 269 94% 168 Pts	4-Core 490 8-Core 725 76% 608 Pts	64-Core 727 45% 727 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 94.2% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Gigabyte(1458 367A) CLim: 1674 MHz, MLim: 1931 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	64.1% Good	Lighting 81.9 Reflection 80.2 Parallax 78.4 67% 80.2 fps	MRender 80.8 Gravity 74.1 Splatting 64.8 59% 73.2 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 64.1% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 PRO Series 500GB 55 User benchmarks, average bench 109% 294GB free Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 325 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 137 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 74 60 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 2 (F1) Unknown 99 99 646396996	134% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 501 Mixed 505 113% 507 MB/s	4K Read 44.5 4K Write 128 4K Mixed 64.1 217% 78.9 MB/s	DQ Read 346 DQ Write 339 DQ Mixed 159 170% 281 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 134% Great: 134%
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$175 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 110GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM05B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5571 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2499 (B1) Unknown 97 97 95 (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 77 60 23 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 845 (F1) Unknown 99 99 14224952074	105% Outstanding	Read 520 Write 444 Mixed 470 106% 478 MB/s	4K Read 36.7 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 26.6 148% 57.9 MB/s	DQ Read 333 DQ Write 301 DQ Mixed 71.9 121% 235 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 116%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$24 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 626GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 214973832 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1536 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 5629504 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4541 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1547 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 79 59 353304597 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 468 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 11629 (C2) HDA temperature 21 41 38654705685 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -66666482365338 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4372088341 (F2) Unknown 100 253 9047066450	98.4% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 174 Mixed 156 125% 166 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.65 4K Mixed 0.26 81% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 98.4% Great: 112%
WD Blue 2.5" 160GB (2009)-$23 13,176 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 125GB free Firmware: 11.01A11 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 159 158 1016 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8690 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 17111 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6524 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 954 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 190 190 30958 (C2) HDA temperature 122 84 21 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (F0) Head flying hours 85 85 11399 (F1) Unknown 166 1 34476568718220 (F2) Unknown 200 200 52625148743	33.9% Below average	Read 59.8 Write 58.2 Mixed 58.6 44% 58.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.37 90% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 33.9% Great: 36%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 2400 C11 4x8GB 1,661 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	88.8% Excellent	MC Read 32.6 MC Write 33.6 MC Mixed 28 90% 31.4 GB/s	SC Read 21.3 SC Write 25.4 SC Mixed 28.1 71% 24.9 GB/s	Latency 48.3 83% 48.3 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 88.8% Great: 88%

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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 $85Bench 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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Value: 67% - Good

Total price: $777

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