Asrock Z77 Pro4

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 80.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	7.68% 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.
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

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z77 Pro4 (all builds)
Memory	5.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors, 1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120221
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Aug 13 '17 at 17:05
Run Duration	199 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing as expected (45^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-3570K-$136 185,516 User benchmarks, average bench 68% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	80.8% Excellent	Memory 93 1-Core 101 2-Core 200 77% 131 Pts	4-Core 397 8-Core 401 53% 399 Pts	64-Core 397 25% 397 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
ATI HD 4870 22,563 User benchmarks, average bench 9% Sapphire(174B E810) 512MB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001 Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	7.68% Terrible	Lighting 9.77 Reflection 8.85 Parallax 6.66 8% 8.42 fps	MRender 7.43 Gravity 5.93 Splatting 11.6 7% 8.32 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 7.68% Great: 12%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung HD502IJ 500GB-$40 25,285 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 5GB free Firmware: 1AA01110 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 86 13 (03) Spinup time 84 84 5570 (04) Start/Stop count 78 78 22067 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 20216 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 99 99 958 (0C) Power cycle count 79 79 21116 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 87 13 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 1878 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 85 64 252641295 (C2) HDA temperature 84 62 269418512 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 13463 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	30% Poor	Read 50.2 Write 53.8 Mixed 36 35% 46.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.41 103% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 30% Great: 59%
Seagate BUP Slim RD 2TB 4,801 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 0GB free Firmware: 0304 Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile)	5.63% Terrible	Read 11 Write 8.43 Mixed 9.11 7% 9.51 MB/s	4K Read 0.23 4K Write 0.58 4K Mixed 0.08 30% 0.3 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 5.63% Great: 66%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 44,086 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	62.6% Good	MC Read 22.5 MC Write 22.7 MC Mixed 20.7 63% 22 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 17.7 SC Mixed 18 50% 17.4 GB/s	Latency 62.1 64% 62.1 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 62.6% Great: 64%

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

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Typical Z77 Pro4 Builds (Compare 758 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 36%

Jet ski

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 28%

Raft

Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Pro4 - $180

CPU
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	239x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	134x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	96x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	71x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	64x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	39x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	28x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	23x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	22x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	22x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	20x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	17x

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Value: 55% - Above average

Total price: $616

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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