Asus Z87-A

Performance Results


Gaming 64% Destroyer	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 53% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (39th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 61 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is 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	91.8% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-A (all builds)
Memory	7.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140815
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 07 '18 at 02:12
Run Duration	285 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing below expectations (39^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 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	73.2% Very good	Memory 91 1-Core 94.6 2-Core 178 72% 121 Pts	4-Core 300 8-Core 470 48% 385 Pts	64-Core 526 33% 526 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 73.2% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Zotac(19DA 1396) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1607 MHz, MLim: 1805 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	86.6% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 111 Parallax 110 92% 111 fps	MRender 91.6 Gravity 98.7 Splatting 91 77% 93.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 1TB-$199 23,857 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 699GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 35657 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 410 (B1) Unknown 95 95 50 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 68 49 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 295 (F1) Unknown 99 99 109123250868	91.8% Outstanding	Read 505 Write 350 Mixed 358 90% 404 MB/s	4K Read 41.2 4K Write 65.5 4K Mixed 27.6 132% 44.8 MB/s	DQ Read 304 DQ Write 185 DQ Mixed 102 114% 197 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 91.8% Great: 126%
Intel Raid 1 Volume 4TB 2,430 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 1.5TB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	22.7% Poor	Read 40.7 Write 38.3 Mixed 41 30% 40 MB/s	4K Read 0.27 4K Write 0.45 4K Mixed 0.3 53% 0.34 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 22.7% Great: 134%
Seagate ST3500630AS 500GB-$102 29,256 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 289GB free Firmware: 3.CHL Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 3030 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 223551297 (09) Power-on hours count 7 7 82166 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 814 (B8) Unknown 100 253 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 61 42 690028583 (C2) HDA temperature 39 58 73014444071 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 58 51 14280048 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 8
Poor: 22% Great: 43%
WD My Passport 0741 1TB 1,389 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 583GB free, PID 0741 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	20.5% Poor	Read 40.5 Write 40.6 Mixed 36.7 50% 39.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.23 72% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 20.5% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 19,207 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (46^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	49.8% Average	MC Read 17.6 MC Write 18.2 MC Mixed 15.8 49% 17.2 GB/s	SC Read 12.6 SC Write 16.8 SC Mixed 11.3 39% 13.6 GB/s	Latency 65.8 61% 65.8 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 49.8% Great: 62%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 60%

Destroyer

Desktop 80%

Battleship

Workstation 50%

Yacht

Motherboard: Asus Z87-A - $299

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	838x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	759x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	346x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	237x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	206x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	190x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	103x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	91x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	87x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	83x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	72x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	68x

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Value: 98% - Outstanding

Total price: $627

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16