Asus SABERTOOTH Z87

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (86th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 14 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	91.6% 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	63.3% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2715 x 1527 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130517
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Jan 23 '18 at 04:03
Run Duration	160 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	16%

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PC Performing way above expectations (86^th 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 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.4% Excellent	Memory 94.2 1-Core 118 2-Core 236 85% 149 Pts	4-Core 454 8-Core 452 61% 453 Pts	64-Core 455 28% 455 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6276) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.6% Outstanding	Lighting 118 Reflection 117 Parallax 99.2 96% 111 fps	MRender 97.7 Gravity 101 Splatting 103 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Series 500GB 7,390 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 188GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXT0AB0Q 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 95 95 22802 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2234 (B1) Unknown 92 92 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 72 49 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 228 (F1) Unknown 99 99 75297121564	63.3% Good	Read 492 Write 283 Mixed 243 75% 339 MB/s	4K Read 18.4 4K Write 56.8 4K Mixed 13.3 75% 29.5 MB/s	DQ Read 23.5 DQ Write 176 DQ Mixed 11.7 35% 70.3 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 63.3% Great: 89%
WD Blue 320GB (2008)-$39 64,707 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 298GB free Firmware: 02.03E02 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 136 132 4183 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1636 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 20516 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 921 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 55 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1636 (C2) HDA temperature 113 88 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 (F0) Head flying hours 74 74 19040 (F1) Unknown 200 200 23913351877 (F2) Unknown 200 200 19122208443	57.5% Above average	Read 105 Write 95.6 Mixed 97 75% 99.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.44 113% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 57.5% Great: 60%
WD Blue 250GB (2010)-$37 50,270 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 203GB free Firmware: 19.01H19 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 139 135 4016 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4599 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 58 58 31197 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2763 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 864 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3734 (C2) HDA temperature 111 87 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 1358 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 60 60 29455 (F1) Unknown 200 200 47652554050 (F2) Unknown 200 200 57368922835	68.2% Good	Read 120 Write 118 Mixed 118 89% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.27 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.32 79% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 68.2% Great: 70%
WD Blue 1TB (2010)-$50 55,121 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 128GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 199 1172 (03) Spinup time 178 170 4083 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5562 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 62 62 28146 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2554 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 979 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4582 (C2) HDA temperature 116 80 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 9 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 1	75.2% Very good	Read 144 Write 118 Mixed 127 98% 130 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 2.14 4K Mixed 0.38 114% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 75.2% Great: 74%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 34,385 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	63.4% Good	MC Read 22.1 MC Write 23.2 MC Mixed 20 62% 21.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.9 SC Write 21.9 SC Mixed 19.5 56% 19.4 GB/s	Latency 59.3 68% 59.3 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 63%

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Gaming 61%

Destroyer

Desktop 80%

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Workstation 50%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 - $193

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	844x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	173x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	169x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	123x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	105x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	84x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	62x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	55x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	53x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	40x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	39x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GBCorsairBench 55%, 18,444 samples	34x

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Value: 90% - Excellent

Total price: $555

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $35	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