Asus Z87-PLUS

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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 84.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	84.7% 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	52.9% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-PLUS (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130517
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	Jul 08 '17 at 23:49
Run Duration	160 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	13%

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PC Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4670-$52 49,019 User benchmarks, average bench 66% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	84.2% Excellent	Memory 95.2 1-Core 109 2-Core 217 81% 141 Pts	4-Core 425 8-Core 421 57% 423 Pts	64-Core 424 26% 424 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 84.2% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$278 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	84.7% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 118 Parallax 100 86% 108 fps	MRender 97.6 Gravity 97.8 Splatting 103 82% 99.6 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 84.7% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 79GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z32080RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 752 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 174 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1464614650312 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 5 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 3 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 58 54 197568495658 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 652837126296 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 271 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2140 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1165 (F2) Unknown 253 253 984 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	52.9% Above average	Read 500 Write 53 Mixed 199 54% 251 MB/s	4K Read 21.1 4K Write 91.8 4K Mixed 0.04 81% 37.6 MB/s	DQ Read 148 DQ Write 219 DQ Mixed 5.32 54% 124 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 52.9% Great: 78%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$75 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 138800944 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 455 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 5908296 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 828 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 218 (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 73 66 454230043 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 32 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5604 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 60129542171 (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 -93638876987079 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5446324775 (F2) Unknown 100 253 257913131065	101% Outstanding	Read 190 Write 163 Mixed 182 135% 178 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.21 73% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 113%
WD WD5000AZLX-00K4KA0 500GB 44,506 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 464GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 168 2191 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3009 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7646 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2119 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 107 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2901 (C2) HDA temperature 119 109 24 (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	87.9% Excellent	Read 151 Write 155 Mixed 142 112% 149 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 2.78 4K Mixed 0.32 125% 1.34 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 104%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CL10-10-10 D3-1866 2x8GB 139 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	70.9% Very good	MC Read 25.4 MC Write 26.3 MC Mixed 23.1 71% 24.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.8 SC Write 19.8 SC Mixed 21.5 56% 19.7 GB/s	Latency 56.5 71% 56.5 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 71%

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Gaming 61%

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Desktop 80%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 50%

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Motherboard: Asus Z87-PLUS - $169

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	304x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	216x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	179x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	80x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	74x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	63x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	49x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	38x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $137Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	31x

RAM
1866 CL10 Series 4x8GBUnknownBench 58%, 2,056 samples	27x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	21x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	18x

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Value: 67% - Good

Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $160	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	WD Black SN850X M.2 2TB $150
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