Asrock Z87 Extreme3

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 87.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	87.6% 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	104% 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.

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Motherboard	Asrock Z87 Extreme3 (all builds)
Memory	9.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140708
Uptime	6.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 25 '17 at 00:41
Run Duration	242 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing as expected (56^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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.8% Excellent	Memory 96.2 1-Core 130 2-Core 253 90% 160 Pts	4-Core 460 8-Core 460 62% 460 Pts	64-Core 456 28% 456 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 87.8% 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 6278) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	87.6% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 114 Parallax 97 91% 107 fps	MRender 94.4 Gravity 98.9 Splatting 100 80% 97.9 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
M4-CT128M4SSD2 3TB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 15% 1TB free Firmware: MJ8OA5F0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 136 81 (03) Spinup time 123 123 42982703609 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 494 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 121 121 34 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 19798 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 119 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1781 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1781 (C2) HDA temperature 214 214 210454511644 (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 200 200 0	13% Very poor	Read 120 Write 121 Mixed 124 27% 122 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 2.26 4K Mixed 0.22 3% 1.12 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 13% Great: 17%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 120GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5397 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1232 (B1) Unknown 93 93 134 (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 68 52 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 10 (F1) Unknown 99 99 94910164549	104% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 400 Mixed 416 99% 443 MB/s	4K Read 47.8 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 35.1 174% 63.3 MB/s	DQ Read 48.2 DQ Write 284 DQ Mixed 28.7 62% 120 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 134%
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 90GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q 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 98 98 9936 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2495 (B1) Unknown 98 98 13 (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 52 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 73 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11050946839	93% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 350 Mixed 361 90% 406 MB/s	4K Read 46.3 4K Write 84 4K Mixed 29.1 152% 53.1 MB/s	DQ Read 47.3 DQ Write 241 DQ Mixed 87 84% 125 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 93% Great: 126%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 51GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 143 140 3808 (04) Start/Stop count 85 85 15782 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 20210 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5348 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 266 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 15515 (C2) HDA temperature 113 101 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 3 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	58.8% Above average	Read 111 Write 94.2 Mixed 73.7 69% 92.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.37 92% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 58.8% Great: 69%
Hitachi HUA721010KLA330 1TB-$39 10,651 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 50GB free Firmware: GKAOA74A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 130 130 150 (03) Spinup time 103 103 55878943399 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 6958 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 132 132 33 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 61079 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1830 (C0) Power-off retract count 93 93 8808 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 8808 (C2) HDA temperature 176 176 240519151650 (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 200 200 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	36.1% Below average	Read 56.8 Write 68.7 Mixed 48.8 43% 58.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.44 91% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 36.1% Great: 46%
WD Blue 1TB (2010)-$128 11,448 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 48GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 169 4291 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14798 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 20406 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5454 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 244 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 14553 (C2) HDA temperature 118 105 29 (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 5 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	56.2% Above average	Read 113 Write 83 Mixed 84.4 70% 93.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.41 112% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 56.2% Great: 74%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Sniper DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GB 5,634 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	66.7% Good	MC Read 20.8 MC Write 25.7 MC Mixed 21.8 65% 22.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.3 SC Write 23.4 SC Mixed 21.7 58% 20.5 GB/s	Latency 53.4 75% 53.4 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 66.7% Great: 72%

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z87 Extreme3 - $166

CPU
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	96x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	69x
Core i5-4570Intel $99Bench 62%, 129,272 samples	28x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	25x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	21x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	15x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	16x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	13x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	11x

RAM
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	14x
Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 54%, 7,771 samples	10x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 49%, 28,220 samples	8x

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Value: 75% - Very good

Total price: $444

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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 $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16