Asus Z87-A

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 52% Yacht	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 40% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	68.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus Z87-A (all builds)
Memory	9.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140603
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 10 '17 at 02:42
Run Duration	373 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	9%

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PC Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4590-$188 151,366 User benchmarks, average bench 63% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	78.4% Very good	Memory 88.1 1-Core 105 2-Core 210 77% 134 Pts	4-Core 397 8-Core 402 53% 399 Pts	64-Core 402 25% 402 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 78.4% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85AC) CLim: 2113 MHz, MLim: 2177 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.43 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	68.2% Good	Lighting 86.3 Reflection 84.3 Parallax 73.7 70% 81.4 fps	MRender 77.7 Gravity 77.7 Splatting 79.1 64% 78.2 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 68.2% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 24GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q 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 13339 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 730 (B1) Unknown 92 92 154 (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 70 52 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 65 (F1) Unknown 99 99 100912248829
Poor: 72% Great: 124%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 82GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 173 2225 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2425 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 24266 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1530 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 151 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2273 (C2) HDA temperature 116 98 27 (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 200 199 79 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	65.3% Good	Read 109 Write 119 Mixed 121 88% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.29 100% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 65.3% Great: 109%
SanDisk Extreme USB 3.0 16GB-$17 2,906 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 11GB free, PID 5580 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	79% Very good	Read 228 Write 48.3 Mixed 73.4 115% 117 MB/s	4K Read 11.9 4K Write 10.6 4K Mixed 4.56 559% 9 MB/s	DQ Read 12.7 DQ Write 10.6 DQ Mixed 5.13 583% 9.48 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 79% Great: 81%
PNY USB 2.0 FD 8GB 1,804 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 1GB free, PID 005b, some shit i found on the street Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	6.66% Terrible	Read 27.4 Write 4.17 Mixed 6.53 12% 12.7 MB/s	4K Read 7.48 4K Write 0.004 4K Mixed 0.004 28% 2.5 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 6.66% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 99[2/7/4]110(F/S) 0420 DDR3 1600G 16GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	51.5% Above average	MC Read 17.7 MC Write 18.8 MC Mixed 16.4 50% 17.6 GB/s	SC Read 13 SC Write 18.1 SC Mixed 15.5 44% 15.5 GB/s	Latency 69.4 58% 69.4 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 51.5% Great: 53%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 60%

Destroyer

Desktop 80%

Battleship

Workstation 50%

Yacht

Motherboard: Asus Z87-A - $299

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	833x
Core i5-4670KIntel $127Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	749x
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	187x

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	67x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $631

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	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