Asus Z87-PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (84th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 16 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	95.9% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 11 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-PRO (all builds)
Memory	10.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20130517
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 20 '17 at 21:40
Run Duration	153 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (84^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-$130 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	87.6% Excellent	Memory 95.5 1-Core 126 2-Core 246 88% 156 Pts	4-Core 430 8-Core 670 68% 550 Pts	64-Core 671 42% 671 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 87.6% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Zotac(19DA 1396) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1607 MHz, MLim: 1805 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 375.57 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.9% Outstanding	Lighting 125 Reflection 121 Parallax 112 102% 119 fps	MRender 100 Gravity 109 Splatting 102 85% 104 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WDC WDS240G1G0A- 240GB 49 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 92GB free Firmware: 1000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 840 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 91 (A5) Unknown 100 100 25772883996 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 3 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 61 47 227633266727 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 38655557645 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 233 (EA) Unknown 100 100 265 (F1) Unknown 253 253 255 (F2) Unknown 253 253 70 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	63.1% Good	Read 495 Write 216 Mixed 189 65% 300 MB/s	4K Read 26.1 4K Write 69.2 4K Mixed 3.4 80% 32.9 MB/s	DQ Read 211 DQ Write 163 DQ Mixed 4.2 53% 126 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 63.1% Great: 63%
Samsung 840 250GB 2,100 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 77GB free (System drive) Firmware: DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11297 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1263 (B1) Unknown 92 92 88 (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 60 51 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 45 (F1) Unknown 99 99 19033449123
Poor: 48% Great: 102%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 10GB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 104999192 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4182 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 12904514060 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 11262 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1254 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 64 55 4900323364 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 338 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 78 78 44068 (C2) HDA temperature 36 45 -140737488355292 (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 7687991464326 (F1) Unknown 100 253 23791679101 (F2) Unknown 100 253 15562910129	80.3% Excellent	Read 151 Write 129 Mixed 152 109% 144 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.02 4K Mixed 0.23 73% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 6GB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 149067512 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4193 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 16002670 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 11283 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1254 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 66 58 30636572706 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 332 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 81 81 39117 (C2) HDA temperature 34 42 -140737488355294 (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 -59824599462038 (F1) Unknown 100 253 21185917803 (F2) Unknown 100 253 13525804097	106% Outstanding	Read 177 Write 193 Mixed 157 132% 176 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 0.97 4K Mixed 0.24 69% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 114%

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 @ 1667 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	63.5% Good	MC Read 22.2 MC Write 22.9 MC Mixed 19.5 62% 21.5 GB/s	SC Read 17 SC Write 22.9 SC Mixed 20.2 57% 20 GB/s	Latency 55.7 72% 55.7 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 63.5% Great: 63%

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Gaming 10%

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Desktop 69%

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Workstation 9%

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Motherboard: Asus Z87-PRO - $135

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $130Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	1,105x
Core i5-4670KIntel $52Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	426x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	240x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	171x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	161x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	159x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	109x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	101x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	99x

RAM
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	61x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	53x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	53x

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Intel Core i5-12400F $110	Nvidia RTX 4070 $520	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $406