Asus SABERTOOTH Z77

Performance Results


Gaming 113% UFO	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 91% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 84.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	135% 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	87.8% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z77 (all builds)
Memory	28 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130813
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 12 '17 at 23:30
Run Duration	196 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (56^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 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	84.5% Excellent	Memory 95.1 1-Core 107 2-Core 216 81% 140 Pts	4-Core 407 8-Core 536 60% 471 Pts	64-Core 540 33% 540 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	135% Outstanding	Lighting 190 Reflection 212 Parallax 189 155% 197 fps	MRender 135 Gravity 187 Splatting 131 122% 151 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 135% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 89GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 16022 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 95 (B1) Unknown 96 96 64 (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 65 56 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 21 (F1) Unknown 99 99 29220292435	87.8% Excellent	Read 508 Write 413 Mixed 421 100% 447 MB/s	4K Read 39.5 4K Write 80.1 4K Mixed 24.8 134% 48.1 MB/s	DQ Read 54.9 DQ Write 68.6 DQ Mixed 22.7 28% 48.8 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 124%
Corsair Force GT 120GB-$155 13,464 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 77GB free Firmware: 5.05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (25^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3137103 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 64 64 -110913235419918 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 455 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 210 (B1) Unknown 0 0 8 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 28 67 55838965788 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3137103 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3137103 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3137103 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 22660 (EA) Unknown 0 0 14280 (F1) Unknown 0 0 14280 (F2) Unknown 0 0 21032	60.6% Good	Read 267 Write 158 Mixed 197 46% 207 MB/s	4K Read 29.8 4K Write 81.4 4K Mixed 19.3 113% 43.5 MB/s	DQ Read 178 DQ Write 150 DQ Mixed 11.8 50% 113 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 60.6% Great: 83%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$84 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 191684488 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 11 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 68 60 6700578 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3029 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 11 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 69 67 538837023 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 143 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 73014444063 (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 80792629808073 (F1) Unknown 100 253 7720845310 (F2) Unknown 100 253 53664525426	80.4% Excellent	Read 170 Write 111 Mixed 121 100% 134 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.15 4K Mixed 0.14 52% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 114%
Hitachi HDS723020BLA642 2TB-$249 29,211 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 333GB free Firmware: MN6OA800 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 91 91 55 (02) Throughput performance 137 137 78 (03) Spinup time 138 138 34385822128 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 807 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 138 138 25 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 41039 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 272 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1761 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1761 (C2) HDA temperature 171 171 167504511011 (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 200 200 0	62.6% Good	Read 118 Write 101 Mixed 85 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.22 4K Mixed 0.14 62% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 62.6% Great: 85%
Hitachi HDS722020ALA330 2TB-$71 17,356 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 256GB free Firmware: JKAOA3EA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 132 132 103 (03) Spinup time 123 123 51576046187 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1748 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 121 121 35 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 53565 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1293 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 2101 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2101 (C2) HDA temperature 162 162 214749216805 (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 200 200 0	61% Good	Read 109 Write 104 Mixed 82.3 74% 98.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 0.7 4K Mixed 0.32 69% 0.5 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 61% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8GBH2X04F1AA28-15 4x8GB 531 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	63% Good	MC Read 22.1 MC Write 22.7 MC Mixed 19 61% 21.3 GB/s	SC Read 20.2 SC Write 19.4 SC Mixed 21.9 59% 20.5 GB/s	Latency 56.9 70% 56.9 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 63% Great: 87%

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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	1,277x
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 $139Bench 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 i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16