Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UP5 TH-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 81%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	108% 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	44.5% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (19%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UP5 TH-CF (all builds)
Memory	28.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140515
Uptime	6.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 14 '18 at 02:20
Run Duration	128 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	19%

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PC Performing above expectations (71^st 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% Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	81% Excellent	Memory 92.5 1-Core 108 2-Core 212 79% 137 Pts	4-Core 378 8-Core 527 57% 452 Pts	64-Core 522 32% 522 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 81% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 859B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 2577 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 141 Reflection 151 Parallax 129 115% 140 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 136 Splatting 111 99% 122 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Crucial M4 256GB-$218 17,938 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 57GB free (System drive) Firmware: 000F Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 14488 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2910 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 95 95 168 (AE) Unknown 100 100 476 (B5) Unknown 100 100 89503850239027 (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 87 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 95 95 5 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	44.5% Average	Read 482 Write 258 Mixed 329 79% 356 MB/s	4K Read 15.7 4K Write 6.28 4K Mixed 4.56 33% 8.85 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 44.5% Great: 74%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 842GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 173 2191 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11451 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 25520 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2797 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 259 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 11191 (C2) HDA temperature 110 98 33 (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	104% Outstanding	Read 184 Write 180 Mixed 167 133% 177 MB/s	4K Read 1.26 4K Write 2.71 4K Mixed 0.31 138% 1.43 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 109%
WD Red 2TB (2012)-$82 64,359 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 698GB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 113 (03) Spinup time 175 170 4233 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 656 (05) Reallocated sector count 194 194 201 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 8913 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 246 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 23 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 189 189 33432 (C2) HDA temperature 115 112 32 (C4) Reallocation count 137 137 63 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 3 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	69.5% Good	Read 122 Write 120 Mixed 106 87% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 0.16 80% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 69.5% Great: 86%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600 C11 4x8GB 660 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	57.5% Above average	MC Read 21.1 MC Write 20 MC Mixed 17.3 56% 19.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 19.3 SC Mixed 19.9 53% 18.6 GB/s	Latency 63.2 63% 63.2 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 57.5% Great: 60%

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Desktop 79%

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Workstation 49%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UP5 TH-CF

CPU
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	104x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	33x
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	23x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	11x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	10x
GTX 670Nvidia $435Bench 28%, 47,610 samples	8x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	7x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	5x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	5x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBCorsairBench 55%, 6,625 samples	13x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBCorsairBench 51%, 3,072 samples	12x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	12x

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Value: 86% - Excellent

Total price: $437

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 $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 $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