Asus Z77-A

Performance Results


Gaming 44% Speed boat	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 35% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 68.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	59.5% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	98.6% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 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.

Very high background CPU (40%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z77-A (all builds)
Memory	4.6 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140318
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 27 '17 at 16:57
Run Duration	408 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	40%

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PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-3470-$59 223,595 User benchmarks, average bench 63% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	68.8% Good	Memory 92.1 1-Core 92.3 2-Core 176 72% 120 Pts	4-Core 257 8-Core 311 37% 284 Pts	64-Core 338 21% 338 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 68.8% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Nvidia(10DE 11D7) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.49 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	59.5% Above average	Lighting 74.1 Reflection 76.7 Parallax 67.3 60% 72.7 fps	MRender 68.7 Gravity 69.4 Splatting 72.5 58% 70.2 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 59.5% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 150GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 43 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 8 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 68 60 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 5 (F1) Unknown 99 99 331144905	98.6% Outstanding	Read 491 Write 394 Mixed 404 96% 430 MB/s	4K Read 35.7 4K Write 51.4 4K Mixed 37.7 130% 41.6 MB/s	DQ Read 378 DQ Write 286 DQ Mixed 118 146% 261 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 98.6% Great: 124%
WD Re 2TB (2012)-$29 5,893 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 706GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 160 160 6983 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 147 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5698 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 108 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 38 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 108 (C2) HDA temperature 116 101 34 (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	85.9% Excellent	Read 147 Write 152 Mixed 136 109% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 3.49 4K Mixed 0.67 174% 1.67 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 85.9% Great: 90%
Seagate ST31500541AS 1.5TB 9,968 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 432GB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 222365485 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 15357 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 53 50 13491199602202 (09) Power-on hours count 36 36 56533 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 792 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 95 17180262415 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 551 (BE) vendor-specific 69 52 538771487 (C2) HDA temperature 31 48 55834574879 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 54 40 222365485 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 194 57820 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 42790759227289 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3549333283 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1148852677	39.7% Below average	Read 87.4 Write 51.2 Mixed 66.2 51% 68.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 0.89 4K Mixed 0.24 56% 0.48 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 39.7% Great: 56%
Maxtor 6V300F0 300GB 1,297 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 14GB free Firmware: VA11 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (03) Spinup time 187 186 19740 (04) Start/Stop count 240 240 27326 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 250 241 51645 (09) Power-on hours count 115 115 47808 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 251 251 926 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 45 656736294 (C0) Power-off retract count 253 253 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 253 253 0 (C2) HDA temperature 38 253 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 253 252 1290 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 199 199 0 (C8) Write error rate 253 252 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 252 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 253 252 0 (CB) Run out cancel 253 252 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 253 252 0 (CD) Thermal asperity rate(TAR) 253 252 0 (CF) Spin high current 253 252 0 (D0) Spin buzz 253 252 0 (D2) Unknown 253 252 0 (D3) Unknown 253 252 0 (D4) Unknown 253 175 0	22.6% Poor	Read 37.3 Write 40 Mixed 46.7 31% 41.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 4.59 4K Mixed 0.43 156% 1.86 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 22.6% Great: 39%
Hitachi HDS722020ALA330 2TB 20 User benchmarks, average bench 15% 529GB free, PID 2336 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	18.6% Very poor	Read 39.4 Write 40.4 Mixed 12.6 37% 30.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.28 4K Mixed 0.29 55% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 18.6% Great: 19%
Hitachi HDS723020BLA642 2TB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 12% 371GB free, PID 0c25 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	15.1% Very poor	Read 32.2 Write 27.9 Mixed 11.6 28% 23.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.22 57% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 15.1% Great: 16%
ST310005 24AS 1TB 358GB free, PID 0578 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples		Read 0.69 0% 0.69 MB/s

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x4GB 6,123 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	57.2% Above average	MC Read 20.7 MC Write 21.6 MC Mixed 18.4 58% 20.2 GB/s	SC Read 12.8 SC Write 15.4 SC Mixed 15.2 41% 14.5 GB/s	Latency 63.9 63% 63.9 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 57.2% Great: 90%

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Gaming 25%

Surfboard

Desktop 76%

Battleship

Workstation 21%

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Motherboard: Asus Z77-A - $144

CPU
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	112x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	74x
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	72x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	43x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	34x
HD 4000 (Desktop 1.15 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 52,547 samples	28x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	21x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	20x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	14x

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	11x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	9x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	9x

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Value: 67% - Good

Total price: $580

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $15	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