Asus Q87M-E

Performance Results


Gaming 62% Destroyer	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 48% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 69.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	86.5% 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	76.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Q87M-E (all builds)
Memory	27.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160427
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 15 '18 at 23:35
Run Duration	201 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing as expected (52^nd 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 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	69.8% Good	Memory 82.4 1-Core 94.3 2-Core 186 70% 121 Pts	4-Core 329 8-Core 345 45% 337 Pts	64-Core 343 21% 343 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 69.8% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	86.5% Excellent	Lighting 109 Reflection 116 Parallax 109 89% 111 fps	MRender 96.4 Gravity 99.3 Splatting 103 82% 99.5 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 381,216 User benchmarks, average bench 273% 437GB free Firmware: 1B2QEXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	183% Outstanding	Read 1,330 Write 1,025 Mixed 1,138 259% 1,164 MB/s	4K Read 51 4K Write 75.3 4K Mixed 55.1 188% 60.5 MB/s	DQ Read 260 DQ Write 156 DQ Mixed 95.8 102% 171 MB/s
Poor: 199% ↑ This bench: 183% Great: 340%
Samsung 860 Evo 500GB-$80 762,998 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 372GB free (System drive) Firmware: RVT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 7 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 8 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 53 53 47 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 4 (F1) Unknown 99 99 216005311	76.8% Very good	Read 516 Write 244 Mixed 311 78% 357 MB/s	4K Read 28.9 4K Write 64.7 4K Mixed 25.2 110% 39.6 MB/s	DQ Read 215 DQ Write 148 DQ Mixed 64.9 80% 143 MB/s
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 76.8% Great: 129%
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB-$31 763,289 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 912GB free Firmware: MS2OA7L0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 142 142 70 (03) Spinup time 128 128 12896895151 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1573 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 113 113 35 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5526 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1571 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1573 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1573 (C2) HDA temperature 153 153 184684314663 (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	101% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 180 Mixed 172 132% 175 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 0.21 88% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 107%
Seagate FireCuda 2.5" 2TB-$79 71,106 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 791GB free Firmware: SDM1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 75 64 29854052 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2447 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 11826452 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -137756781051275 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 122 (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 57 56 739835947 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3662 (C2) HDA temperature 43 44 68719476779 (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 -60073707568496 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3973163539 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4358547394 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	45.4% Average	Read 108 Write 50.3 Mixed 72.8 58% 77 MB/s	4K Read 0.29 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.28 62% 0.53 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 45.4% Great: 68%
Seagate FreeAgent 500GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 370GB free Firmware: 0132 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 150995157 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6922 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 5298559 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 19867 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 53 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 8590065743 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 54 51 823590958 (C2) HDA temperature 46 49 55834574894 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 49 25 150995157 (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 -72039486453149 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2470953204 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3809057477	26.2% Poor	Read 45.5 Write 45.4 Mixed 44.8 34% 45.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.55 120% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 26.2% Great: 26%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GB 12,722 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (26^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	53.3% Above average	MC Read 17.5 MC Write 20.5 MC Mixed 18 53% 18.7 GB/s	SC Read 12.6 SC Write 17.1 SC Mixed 16.3 44% 15.3 GB/s	Latency 76.2 52% 76.2 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 53.3% Great: 80%

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Gaming 39%

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Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

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Motherboard: Asus Q87M-E

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	228x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	186x
Core i5-4570Intel $62Bench 62%, 129,272 samples	108x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	135x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	104x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	82x

SSD
MX500 500GBCrucial $55Bench 106%, 237,241 samples	45x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	35x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	29x

RAM
8JTF51264AZ-1G6E1 4x4GBMicronBench 56%, 6,584 samples	49x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	14x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	11x

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Value: 65% - Good

Total price: $390

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	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 $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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