Asus SABERTOOTH Z87

Performance Results


Gaming 64% Destroyer	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 54% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 92.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	65.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	56.4% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1824 x 1026 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140818
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Jul 09 '16 at 17:28
Run Duration	300 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.9% Outstanding	Memory 97 1-Core 138 2-Core 270 94% 168 Pts	4-Core 478 8-Core 700 74% 589 Pts	64-Core 703 44% 703 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 92.9% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 2982) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6869 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	65.3% Good	Lighting 82.7 Reflection 88.2 Parallax 77 67% 82.6 fps	MRender 82.7 Gravity 74.8 Splatting 69.4 61% 75.6 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 65.3% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 120GB-$109 51,792 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 87GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXT08B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10852 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 372 (B1) Unknown 94 94 69 (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 67 60 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 97 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11381034467	56.4% Above average	Read 485 Write 132 Mixed 148 55% 255 MB/s	4K Read 19.7 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 8.02 95% 43.6 MB/s	DQ Read 22.5 DQ Write 87 DQ Mixed 7.61 20% 39 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 56.4% Great: 73%
Crucial M4 64GB-$92 7,336 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 59GB free Firmware: 0309 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 14127 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 583 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 97 97 105 (AE) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 3169716535566 (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 49 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 100 100 1 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 97 97 3 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	45.4% Average	Read 370 Write 108 Mixed 169 47% 215 MB/s	4K Read 22.7 4K Write 73.2 4K Mixed 4.68 79% 33.5 MB/s	DQ Read 21.6 DQ Write 79.4 DQ Mixed 4.71 17% 35.3 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 45.4% Great: 65%
WD WD2500JD-00HBB0 250GB-$140 3,296 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 233GB free Firmware: 08.02D08 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 125 120 6250 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6344 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 55 55 32915 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1256 (C2) HDA temperature 119 97 31 (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 200 253 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	33% Below average	Read 55.8 Write 58.7 Mixed 56 43% 56.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.38 92% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 33% Great: 33%
WD 3200JS External 320GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 12% 126GB free, PID null Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	4.48% Terrible	Read 8.52 Write 6.64 Mixed 7.3 9% 7.49 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 0.54 4K Mixed 0.25 29% 0.46 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 4.48% Great: 19%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 1866 C8 2x8GB 946 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	72.1% Very good	MC Read 25.5 MC Write 25.7 MC Mixed 22.5 70% 24.6 GB/s	SC Read 19.9 SC Write 24.8 SC Mixed 23.2 65% 22.6 GB/s	Latency 50.4 79% 50.4 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 74%

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Gaming 60%

Destroyer

Desktop 80%

Battleship

Workstation 50%

Yacht

Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z87 - $193

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	863x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	175x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	175x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	128x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	108x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	87x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	64x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $137Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	57x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	55x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	40x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	40x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GBCorsairBench 55%, 18,444 samples	34x

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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $685

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $160	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	WD Black SN850X M.2 2TB $150
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $388	WD Black SN850X M.2 1TB $79
Intel Core i5-12400F $110	Nvidia RTX 4070 $520	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $363