Asus GRYPHON Z87

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 86.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	87.9% 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	93.2% 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	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.

Motherboard	Asus GRYPHON Z87 (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131213
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 21 '17 at 22:10
Run Duration	193 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	86.8% Excellent	Memory 90.7 1-Core 126 2-Core 253 88% 157 Pts	4-Core 447 8-Core 653 69% 550 Pts	64-Core 654 40% 654 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 86.8% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4996) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	87.9% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 119 Parallax 105 91% 112 fps	MRender 98.8 Gravity 104 Splatting 98.3 82% 100 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS2211 240GB-$90 1,866 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 69GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS221016 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1708 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1050 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 691 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1245249 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 401 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850919454 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3808	93.2% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 395 Mixed 457 102% 457 MB/s	4K Read 32.2 4K Write 97.3 4K Mixed 14 118% 47.8 MB/s	DQ Read 323 DQ Write 341 DQ Mixed 63.6 122% 243 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 93.2% Great: 108%
Adata Premier SP550 120GB-$45 22,057 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 64GB free Firmware: O0803B5a Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 16 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 592 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 115 (A3) Unknown 100 100 15 (A4) Unknown 100 100 8199 (A5) Unknown 100 100 13 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 4 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 143 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 12296 (F2) Unknown 100 100 26222 (F5) Unknown 100 100 16398	84% Excellent	Read 488 Write 225 Mixed 252 70% 322 MB/s	4K Read 41.6 4K Write 59.4 4K Mixed 30.5 134% 43.8 MB/s	DQ Read 306 DQ Write 174 DQ Mixed 52.8 90% 178 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 91%
Adata Premier SP550 240GB-$74 29,295 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 56GB free Firmware: P0121AA Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 89 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 787 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 40 (A3) Unknown 100 100 199 (94) Unknown 100 100 20577 (95) Unknown 100 100 351 (96) Unknown 100 100 153 (97) Unknown 100 100 298 (A4) Unknown 100 100 10262 (A5) Unknown 100 100 20 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 7 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 110 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 38633820389403 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 34508 (F2) Unknown 100 100 70664 (F5) Unknown 100 100 60609 (F6) Unknown 100 100 41154 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0	78.5% Very good	Read 485 Write 250 Mixed 265 73% 333 MB/s	4K Read 32.5 4K Write 60.5 4K Mixed 24.8 113% 39.3 MB/s	DQ Read 270 DQ Write 180 DQ Mixed 47 83% 166 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 78.5% Great: 92%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC9C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 158252368 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2744 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 62 54 25781645594 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1886 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1944 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 8590065669 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 61 39 1508189405223 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 447 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 13247 (C2) HDA temperature 39 61 42949672999 (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 -25288767437796 (F1) Unknown 100 253 20374249413729 (F2) Unknown 100 253 64719931734495	95.8% Outstanding	Read 172 Write 162 Mixed 139 118% 158 MB/s	4K Read 1.05 4K Write 1.04 4K Mixed 0.24 90% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 95.8% Great: 114%
WD Blue 2TB (2015)-$61 253,816 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 287GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 174 4233 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 268 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 515 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 268 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 90 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1506 (C2) HDA temperature 115 109 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 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	46.5% Average	Read 80.4 Write 81.3 Mixed 84 62% 81.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 0.23 101% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 46.5% Great: 84%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 64C0MHHHJ-HS 0420 F3-12800CL9-4GBXL 0420 F3-12800CL9-4GBXL 0118 64C0MHHHJ-HS 16GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 1333, 1600, 1600, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (20^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	49.4% Average	MC Read 16.9 MC Write 17.5 MC Mixed 15 47% 16.5 GB/s	SC Read 13.2 SC Write 19 SC Mixed 16.4 46% 16.2 GB/s	Latency 66.2 60% 66.2 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 49.4% Great: 52%

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Gaming 40%

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Desktop 80%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

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Motherboard: Asus GRYPHON Z87 - $200

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	150x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	137x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	80x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	52x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	45x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	38x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	25x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	23x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	20x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	22x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	15x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	11x

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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $620

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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