Asus SABERTOOTH Z87

Performance Results


Gaming 104% UFO	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 85% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 83.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	127% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	77% 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 (19%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140818
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 06 '17 at 17:19
Run Duration	159 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	19%

PC Performing as expected (57^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 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	83.2% Excellent	Memory 90.4 1-Core 120 2-Core 230 83% 147 Pts	4-Core 412 8-Core 576 62% 494 Pts	64-Core 553 34% 553 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 83.2% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85E2) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing below potential (72^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	127% Outstanding	Lighting 175 Reflection 203 Parallax 195 143% 191 fps	MRender 128 Gravity 173 Splatting 127 116% 143 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 127% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial BX100 250GB-$141 42,930 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 118GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd 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 1180 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1046 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 61 (A3) Unknown 100 100 30 (A4) Unknown 100 100 93255 (A5) Unknown 100 100 134 (A6) Unknown 100 100 42 (A7) Unknown 100 100 89 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 98 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 451 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 61 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 870382 (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 277163 (F2) Unknown 100 100 418050 (F5) Unknown 100 100 746040	77% Very good	Read 369 Write 344 Mixed 358 80% 357 MB/s	4K Read 25.1 4K Write 68.2 4K Mixed 27.2 109% 40.1 MB/s	DQ Read 212 DQ Write 153 DQ Mixed 68.3 82% 144 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 77% Great: 103%
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 61GB free Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4275366 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 10 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 22539988380524 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1393 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 335 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 0 0 5839 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4275366 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 10 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4275366 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4275366 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 9041 (EA) Unknown 0 0 8633 (F1) Unknown 0 0 8633 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11583	70.9% Very good	Read 495 Write 146 Mixed 212 62% 284 MB/s	4K Read 31.5 4K Write 95.1 4K Mixed 20.3 124% 49 MB/s	DQ Read 125 DQ Write 144 DQ Mixed 43.1 58% 104 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 82%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 209805584 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3354 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 8642712640 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 8947 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2197 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 67 36 228188553249 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 670 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 69 69 62625 (C2) HDA temperature 33 64 -140737488355295 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 78138340019924 (F1) Unknown 100 253 50730304959 (F2) Unknown 100 253 44773646777	72.6% Very good	Read 134 Write 120 Mixed 123 94% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.24 4K Mixed 0.25 68% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 72.6% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600 C11 2x8GB 1,675 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	54.9% Above average	MC Read 20 MC Write 20.8 MC Mixed 16.6 55% 19.1 GB/s	SC Read 13.3 SC Write 17.7 SC Mixed 14.9 44% 15.3 GB/s	Latency 66.6 60% 66.6 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 54.9% Great: 61%

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Gaming 61%

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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	845x
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	124x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	106x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	84x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	62x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	56x
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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Total price: $555

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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