Asus SABERTOOTH Z77

Performance Results


Gaming 64% Destroyer	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: 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 88.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	70.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	91.5% 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	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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z77 (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130813
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Feb 22 '16 at 19:50
Run Duration	224 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing above expectations (64^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% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	88.5% Excellent	Memory 95.6 1-Core 122 2-Core 246 88% 155 Pts	4-Core 469 8-Core 477 63% 473 Pts	64-Core 469 29% 469 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Palit(1569 13C0) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6191 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	70.2% Very good	Lighting 88.7 Reflection 94.9 Parallax 84.2 72% 89.3 fps	MRender 86.6 Gravity 83.8 Splatting 75.3 66% 81.9 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 70.2% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 89GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 1 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4715 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1006 (B1) Unknown 97 97 28 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 1 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 55 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 232 (F1) Unknown 99 99 20717226442	91.5% Outstanding	Read 501 Write 327 Mixed 354 87% 394 MB/s	4K Read 41.3 4K Write 74.6 4K Mixed 24.7 134% 46.9 MB/s	DQ Read 344 DQ Write 204 DQ Mixed 84.4 114% 211 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 91.5% Great: 118%
OCZ Agility 3 120GB-$102 38,562 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 35GB free Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 102 4904206 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 -57492432214212 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2087 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 239 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4904206 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4904206 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4904206 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11157 (EA) Unknown 0 0 14211 (F1) Unknown 0 0 14211 (F2) Unknown 0 0 17671	51.7% Above average	Read 196 Write 125 Mixed 137 34% 153 MB/s	4K Read 22.8 4K Write 83.1 4K Mixed 17.9 102% 41.3 MB/s	DQ Read 158 DQ Write 126 DQ Mixed 35.4 56% 107 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 51.7% Great: 61%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 690GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 173 4258 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2293 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1686 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 517 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 46 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 12462 (C2) HDA temperature 123 116 24 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	54.1% Above average	Read 98.9 Write 90.1 Mixed 87.6 69% 92.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 0.37 4K Mixed 0.16 52% 0.39 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 54.1% Great: 84%
Samsung HD103SI 1TB-$89 48,059 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 508GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 82 82 6260 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10427 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 12402 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 16070 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 5765 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 79 57 353632277 (C2) HDA temperature 76 56 403963928 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 345692 (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 6 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	50.8% Above average	Read 93.9 Write 83 Mixed 83.6 65% 86.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.44 100% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 50.8% Great: 59%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$109 43,695 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 451GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 112 110 7391 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2659 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11427 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2357 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 205 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 140 140 181982 (C2) HDA temperature 117 101 30 (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	47.2% Average	Read 85.5 Write 79.2 Mixed 80.6 62% 81.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 0.39 4K Mixed 0.21 56% 0.4 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 47.2% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 34,385 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	61.3% Good	MC Read 21.3 MC Write 22.1 MC Mixed 19.1 60% 20.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.5 SC Write 19.4 SC Mixed 19.1 53% 18.7 GB/s	Latency 55.2 72% 55.2 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 61.3% Great: 63%

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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	1,272x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	392x
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	377x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	166x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	161x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	155x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	82x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	75x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 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: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $612

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 $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