Asrock Z77 Professional-M

Performance Results


Gaming 51% Yacht	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 43% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 80.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	60.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	84.6% 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	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 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.

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Motherboard	Asrock Z77 Professional-M (all builds)
Memory	18.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20130712
Uptime	2 Days
Run Date	Feb 02 '16 at 23:04
Run Duration	342 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	25%

PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2600K-$319 147,533 User benchmarks, average bench 71% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	80.9% Excellent	Memory 93.5 1-Core 111 2-Core 205 80% 137 Pts	4-Core 369 8-Core 558 58% 464 Pts	64-Core 560 35% 560 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 80.9% Great: 83%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 3000 (Desktop V2 1.35 GHz)-$15 6,831 User benchmarks, average bench 2% ASRock(1849 0122) 2GB Driver: igdumd64.dll Ver. 9.17.10.4229 Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	2.35% Terrible	Lighting 2.57 Reflection 3.92 Parallax 1.72 2% 2.74 fps	MRender 3.81 Gravity 1.4 Splatting 4.78 3% 3.33 fps
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 2.35% Great: 2%
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Asus(1043 8531) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6175 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	60.2% Good	Lighting 77.1 Reflection 77.3 Parallax 67.2 63% 73.9 fps	MRender 67.2 Gravity 69.7 Splatting 65.3 55% 67.4 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 60.2% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial BX100 250GB-$141 42,930 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 206GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd 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 13 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 68 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 74 (A3) Unknown 100 100 17 (A4) Unknown 100 100 4449 (A5) Unknown 100 100 20 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 2 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 11 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 61 (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 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 21326 (F2) Unknown 100 100 3334 (F5) Unknown 100 100 35592	77.7% Very good	Read 381 Write 367 Mixed 395 85% 381 MB/s	4K Read 23.1 4K Write 46.5 4K Mixed 28.2 96% 32.6 MB/s	DQ Read 275 DQ Write 188 DQ Mixed 109 115% 191 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 77.7% Great: 103%
Transcend SSD370S 256GB-$115 11,742 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 206GB free Firmware: N1114H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^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 100 100 201 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 262 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 45 (A3) Unknown 100 100 24 (A4) Unknown 100 100 10665 (A5) Unknown 100 100 34 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 10 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 72 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 31180 (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 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 55480 (F2) Unknown 100 100 37029 (F5) Unknown 100 100 85320	78.5% Very good	Read 379 Write 369 Mixed 399 86% 383 MB/s	4K Read 23.3 4K Write 46.5 4K Mixed 28.4 96% 32.7 MB/s	DQ Read 285 DQ Write 202 DQ Mixed 120 123% 202 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 78.5% Great: 114%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 240GB 13,500 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 83GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	84.6% Excellent	Read 888 Write 238 Mixed 297 103% 475 MB/s	4K Read 23.7 4K Write 39.3 4K Mixed 17.1 79% 26.7 MB/s	DQ Read 210 DQ Write 286 DQ Mixed 61.9 99% 186 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 84.6% Great: 133%
Intel Raid 5 Volume 6TB 828 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2TB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	13% Very poor	Read 22.8 Write 21.7 Mixed 23.1 17% 22.5 MB/s	4K Read 1.44 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.47 145% 1.22 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 13% Great: 159%
Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 8GB 9,902 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 7GB free, PID 6545 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	6.99% Terrible	Read 22 Write 9.13 Mixed 9.07 15% 13.4 MB/s	4K Read 7.56 4K Write 0.006 4K Mixed 0.005 28% 2.52 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 6.99% Great: 6%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1866C10D3/8G KHX1866C10D3/8G 01BA 8GBH2X04HAAA30-15 01BA 8GBH2X04HAAA30-15 32GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	56.6% Above average	MC Read 19.3 MC Write 20.2 MC Mixed 18 55% 19.2 GB/s	SC Read 15.8 SC Write 19.3 SC Mixed 18.4 51% 17.8 GB/s	Latency 61 66% 61 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 56.6% Great: 64%

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Gaming 39%

Jet ski

Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Professional-M

CPU
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	24x
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	20x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	9x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	12x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	8x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	7x

SSD
A400 120GBKingston $29Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	4x
Solid State Disk 1TBSpccBench 79%, 17,192 samples	4x
SSDNow UV400 480GBKingston $175Bench 73%, 24,007 samples	3x

RAM
RipjawsX DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 59%, 3,098 samples	5x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	4x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBCorsairBench 55%, 6,625 samples	4x

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Value: 65% - Good

Total price: $404

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