Asus SABERTOOTH Z87

Performance Results


Gaming 66% Battle cruiser	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 54% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	87% 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	60.4% 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.

Very high background CPU (34%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130419
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Apr 25 '19 at 19:58
Run Duration	151 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	34%

PC Performing as expected (55^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 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	74.6% Very good	Memory 89.3 1-Core 98.5 2-Core 178 72% 122 Pts	4-Core 325 8-Core 490 51% 407 Pts	64-Core 482 30% 482 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4998) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 430.39 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	87% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 116 Parallax 114 91% 114 fps	MRender 94.5 Gravity 101 Splatting 93.7 79% 96.3 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 512GB-$129 14,996 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 19GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM05B0Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 132 101 83 65 73 69 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	60.4% Good	Read 287 Write 226 Mixed 229 SusWrite 87.3 46% 207 MB/s	4K Read 23.3 4K Write 61.5 4K Mixed 30.9 107% 38.6 MB/s	DQ Read 250 DQ Write 212 DQ Mixed 138 129% 200 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 60.4% Great: 118%
WD WD80EMAZ-00WJTA0 8TB 5,351 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2TB free Firmware: 83.H0A83 SusWrite @10s intervals: 159 152 158 156 153 156 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	87.8% Excellent	Read 149 Write 150 Mixed 88 SusWrite 156 100% 136 MB/s	4K Read 1.9 4K Write 4.7 4K Mixed 0.9 266% 2.5 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 105%
WD Black 3TB (2012)-$205 1,332 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 165GB free Firmware: 01.01L01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 150 148 149 149 149 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	86.4% Excellent	Read 152 Write 146 Mixed 97.2 SusWrite 149 100% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.9 4K Mixed 0.9 187% 1.53 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 92%
WD Red 4TB (2013)-$110 55,507 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 44GB free Firmware: 82.00A82 SusWrite @10s intervals: 79 78 79 78 79 79 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile)	64.2% Good	Read 144 Write 126 Mixed 79 SusWrite 78.7 79% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 0.9 182% 1.43 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 64.2% Great: 100%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-037.A00LF 4x8GB 381 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	56.1% Above average	MC Read 21 MC Write 20.7 MC Mixed 16.4 55% 19.4 GB/s	SC Read 13.7 SC Write 18.9 SC Mixed 18.2 48% 16.9 GB/s	Latency 68.2 59% 68.2 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 56.1% Great: 95%

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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	844x
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	105x
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	55x
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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Value: 90% - Excellent

Total price: $555

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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