Asus Z87-A

Performance Results


Gaming 51% Yacht	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 40% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 83.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	60.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	96.1% 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.

Very high background CPU (35%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-A (all builds)
Memory	9.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140815
Uptime	1.7 Days
Run Date	Apr 14 '17 at 00:27
Run Duration	260 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	35%

PC Performing above expectations (76^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 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	83.3% Excellent	Memory 92.7 1-Core 115 2-Core 239 84% 149 Pts	4-Core 436 8-Core 384 56% 410 Pts	64-Core 413 26% 413 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 79%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Asus(1043 8534) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4531 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	3.85% Terrible	Lighting 3.87 Reflection 6.73 Parallax 6.41 3% 5.67 fps	MRender 8.1 Gravity 2.4 Splatting 8.04 5% 6.18 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.85% Great: 3%
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% MSI(1462 3281) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	60.5% Good	Lighting 76.6 Reflection 74.5 Parallax 64.6 62% 71.9 fps	MRender 68.1 Gravity 68.5 Splatting 70.5 57% 69.1 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 60.5% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 81GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4404 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 885 (B1) Unknown 94 94 110 (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 63 46 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 95 (F1) Unknown 99 99 21272104538	96.1% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 410 Mixed 413 99% 443 MB/s	4K Read 43.1 4K Write 95.5 4K Mixed 25.7 149% 54.7 MB/s	DQ Read 45.1 DQ Write 282 DQ Mixed 72.3 83% 133 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 96.1% Great: 115%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 795GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 70 69 9378 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 431 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1567 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 726 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 2 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 51 214749282336 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 2 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 8 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 13407	83.7% Excellent	Read 136 Write 156 Mixed 124 104% 138 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 0.56 142% 1.3 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 83.7% Great: 75%
Seagate Momentus 5400.6 2.5" 500GB-$16 83,084 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 466GB free Firmware: 0002BSM1 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 221842834 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1471 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 11146627 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3561 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 37 1171 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 89 89 11 (BC) Unknown 100 95 34360328219 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 52 521404446 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 16 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 30 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 8703 (C2) HDA temperature 30 48 60129542174 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 45 37 221842834 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 12	43.5% Average	Read 78.6 Write 73 Mixed 71.7 56% 74.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 0.97 4K Mixed 0.36 77% 0.59 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 43.5% Great: 43%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 464GB free Firmware: 12.01C01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 170 6258 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11652 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 68 68 23930 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4081 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1164 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 11652 (C2) HDA temperature 114 82 36 (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	44.7% Average	Read 78.8 Write 76.3 Mixed 77.1 58% 77.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 2.42 4K Mixed 0.38 113% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 44.7% Great: 69%
Verbatim Store n Go V3 USB 3.0 16GB-$7 2,535 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 11GB free, PID 0243 Operating at USB 3.1 Speed Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	30.6% Below average	Read 144 Write 22.3 Mixed 38.7 64% 68.4 MB/s	4K Read 19.6 4K Write 0.07 4K Mixed 0.66 97% 6.76 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 30.6% Great: 35%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GB 48,796 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	41.4% Average	MC Read 12.9 MC Write 14.3 MC Mixed 14.6 40% 13.9 GB/s	SC Read 12.1 SC Write 9.9 SC Mixed 10.7 31% 10.9 GB/s	Latency 62.7 64% 62.7 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 41.4% Great: 63%

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Gaming 60%

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 50%

Yacht

Motherboard: Asus Z87-A - $299

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	833x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	751x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	345x

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	188x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	101x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	91x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 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	71x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	68x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $631

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 $179	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