Asus GRYPHON Z87

Performance Results


Gaming 11% Tree trunk	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 10% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	6.42% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	59% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
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, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus GRYPHON Z87 (all builds)
Memory	6.2 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140815
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Dec 17 '16 at 10:38
Run Duration	157 Seconds
Run User	GRC-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770-$75 176,321 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	82.5% Excellent	Memory 94.3 1-Core 110 2-Core 215 81% 140 Pts	4-Core 382 8-Core 587 60% 484 Pts	64-Core 588 36% 588 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 82.5% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT 19,550 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Gigabyte(1458 34D0) 1GB Ram: 1GB, Driver: 342.1 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	6.42% Terrible	Lighting 8.67 Reflection 8.46 Parallax 2.88 7% 6.67 fps	MRender 7.29 Gravity 6.5 Splatting 5.52 5% 6.44 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 6.42% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB-$70 27,495 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 83GB free (System drive) Firmware: 521ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 39376433 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 -59828894416058 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 617 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 53 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 27 45 64427458587 (C2) HDA temperature 27 45 64427458587 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 39376433 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 39376433 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 39376433 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 27092 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9120 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9120 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11588	59% Above average	Read 355 Write 205 Mixed 208 56% 256 MB/s	4K Read 23.8 4K Write 82.5 4K Mixed 15.5 100% 40.6 MB/s	DQ Read 34.4 DQ Write 114 DQ Mixed 16.4 29% 54.8 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 59% Great: 94%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 1TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 176 6158 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 612 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 17221 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 612 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 36 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 174 174 78380 (C2) HDA temperature 122 104 28 (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 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	61.1% Good	Read 110 Write 103 Mixed 97 78% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 2.15 4K Mixed 0.19 84% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 61.1% Great: 84%
Corsair Survivor 3.0 32GB 282 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 13GB free, PID 1a0a Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	40% Average	Read 195 Write 37.8 Mixed 36.3 82% 89.6 MB/s	4K Read 7.02 4K Write 0.61 4K Mixed 0.46 63% 2.7 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 40% Great: 40%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 9,994 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	59.1% Above average	MC Read 21.3 MC Write 21.2 MC Mixed 17.3 57% 19.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.3 SC Write 20.9 SC Mixed 18.8 54% 19 GB/s	Latency 59 68% 59 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 59.1% Great: 62%

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

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Gaming 40%

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Desktop 80%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

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Motherboard: Asus GRYPHON Z87 - $200

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	150x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	137x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	80x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	52x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	45x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	38x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	25x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	23x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	20x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	22x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	15x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	11x

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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $620

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $178	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