Asrock Z77 Extreme4

Performance Results


Gaming 65% Battle cruiser	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 54% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 76.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	84.5% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	76.4% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 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.

Motherboard	Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (all builds)
Memory	13.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20130711
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 17 '17 at 22:46
Run Duration	144 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (58^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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	76.2% Very good	Memory 85.1 1-Core 108 2-Core 213 77% 135 Pts	4-Core 364 8-Core 520 56% 442 Pts	64-Core 520 32% 520 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 76.2% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3235) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	84.5% Excellent	Lighting 108 Reflection 115 Parallax 116 88% 113 fps	MRender 95.4 Gravity 98.8 Splatting 93.5 78% 95.9 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Neutron 256GB-$255 1,100 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 106GB free Firmware: M311 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 47 1 3371 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 18022 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 27 (AB) Unknown 253 253 0 (AC) Unknown 253 253 0 (B5) Unknown 253 253 0 (B6) Unknown 253 253 0 (C2) HDA temperature 38 0 85902032934 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 29 1 3371 (E7) Temperature 253 253 1 (EA) Unknown 100 100 15569 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1512 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2951 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 15057150	82.4% Excellent	Read 480 Write 427 Mixed 298 89% 402 MB/s	4K Read 15.4 4K Write 52.5 4K Mixed 25.5 84% 31.1 MB/s	DQ Read 242 DQ Write 247 DQ Mixed 83.3 107% 191 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 97%
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB-$150 34,842 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 23GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM04B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 36198 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 98 (B1) Unknown 94 94 210 (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 33 (F1) Unknown 99 99 17181777250	76.4% Very good	Read 520 Write 281 Mixed 277 79% 359 MB/s	4K Read 29.6 4K Write 51.4 4K Mixed 19 96% 33.3 MB/s	DQ Read 283 DQ Write 162 DQ Mixed 56.7 87% 168 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 110%
WD Green 750GB (2009)-$224 5,100 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 101GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 163 157 6833 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10622 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 11 11 65694 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 508 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 20 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 10622 (C2) HDA temperature 119 104 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 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	43.5% Average	Read 75 Write 76.4 Mixed 35.6 46% 62.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.25 76% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 43.5% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 2400 C10 4x4GB 127 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	50.8% Above average	MC Read 18.5 MC Write 17.2 MC Mixed 15.7 49% 17.1 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 18.3 SC Mixed 16.6 48% 16.8 GB/s	Latency 71.8 56% 71.8 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 50.8% Great: 88%

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Gaming 37%

Jet ski

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 29%

Raft

Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 - $165

CPU
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	1,519x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	948x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	556x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	309x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	268x
HD 4000 (Desktop 1.15 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 52,547 samples	237x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	173x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	140x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	107x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	90x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	86x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	81x

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Total price: $581

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 $184	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) $35	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