Asus SABERTOOTH Z77

Performance Results


Gaming 96% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 78% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 88.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	107% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	60.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z77 (all builds)
Memory	14.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120326
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 08 '16 at 23:49
Run Duration	139 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	14%

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PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3770K-$175 165,979 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	88.1% Excellent	Memory 96.6 1-Core 111 2-Core 219 82% 142 Pts	4-Core 442 8-Core 558 64% 500 Pts	64-Core 553 34% 553 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 88.1% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6183) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6839 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Lighting 139 Reflection 154 Parallax 140 113% 144 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 134 Splatting 113 99% 122 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 520 Series 240GB-$139 12,595 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 121GB free Firmware: 400i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 83253646977354 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2199 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 78 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 78 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 71607 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 62 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 71607 (F2) Unknown 100 100 120579 (F9) Unknown 100 100 2567	79.8% Very good	Read 498 Write 248 Mixed 332 79% 359 MB/s	4K Read 30.7 4K Write 81.5 4K Mixed 19.9 115% 44.1 MB/s	DQ Read 288 DQ Write 209 DQ Mixed 88.3 110% 195 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 79.8% Great: 95%
Intel 520 Series 120GB-$199 19,348 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 80GB free (System drive) Firmware: 400i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 135935715830557 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2552 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 2552 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 110 110 34142269 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2552 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 447848 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 46 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 447848 (F2) Unknown 100 100 385702 (F9) Unknown 100 100 17299	60.9% Good	Read 369 Write 148 Mixed 200 52% 239 MB/s	4K Read 28.4 4K Write 67.2 4K Mixed 17.1 100% 37.5 MB/s	DQ Read 213 DQ Write 137 DQ Mixed 51.6 72% 134 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 928GB free Firmware: CC4D Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 185319992 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5506 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 4352516323 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 18551 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2556 (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 70 63 504561694 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 80 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 233702 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 42949672990 (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 124077310225225 (F1) Unknown 100 253 125566999728375 (F2) Unknown 100 253 16775674788040	103% Outstanding	Read 160 Write 200 Mixed 159 130% 173 MB/s	4K Read 1.15 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.47 128% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GB 984 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	82.7% Excellent	MC Read 31.4 MC Write 30.5 MC Mixed 27.2 85% 29.7 GB/s	SC Read 20.6 SC Write 19.8 SC Mixed 22.5 60% 21 GB/s	Latency 52 77% 52 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 89%

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Desktop 79%

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Workstation 49%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z77 - $210

CPU
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	1,281x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	394x
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	381x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	168x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	161x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	158x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	82x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	75x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	74x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	107x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	101x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	65x

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Value: 90% - Excellent

Total price: $607

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $542	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16