Asus Z77-A

Performance Results


Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 79%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	4.3% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	92.1% 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z77-A (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140318
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 26 '18 at 20:45
Run Duration	336 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2600-$197 185,630 User benchmarks, average bench 67% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	79% Very good	Memory 92.4 1-Core 97.3 2-Core 188 74% 126 Pts	4-Core 362 8-Core 473 53% 418 Pts	64-Core 470 29% 470 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 79% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon R7 240 2,991 User benchmarks, average bench 4% XFX(1682 7240) ≥ 4GB Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.1.1 Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	4.3% Terrible	Lighting 5.13 Reflection 6.65 Parallax 6.75 4% 6.18 fps	MRender 4.67 Gravity 5.27 Splatting 6.26 4% 5.4 fps
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 4.3% Great: 5%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 331GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10427 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 613 (B1) Unknown 99 99 11 (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 61 55 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 150 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13293468737	92.1% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 400 Mixed 417 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 32.1 4K Write 58 4K Mixed 40.8 132% 43.6 MB/s	DQ Read 182 DQ Write 91.2 DQ Mixed 58.3 64% 111 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 92.1% Great: 134%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 148GB free Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile)	164% Outstanding	Read 1,343 Write 990 Mixed 1,023 248% 1,119 MB/s	4K Read 45.8 4K Write 61.1 4K Mixed 34.7 146% 47.2 MB/s	DQ Read 185 DQ Write 87.8 DQ Mixed 63.4 66% 112 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 164% Great: 236%
SanDisk Extreme 120GB-$160 11,787 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 103GB free Firmware: R211 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (8^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 3059527 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 62 62 -39144331902268 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1441 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 487 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 32 50 55837851680 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3059527 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3059527 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3059527 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 94 94 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 32720 (EA) Unknown 0 0 26434 (F1) Unknown 0 0 26434 (F2) Unknown 0 0 20794	53.1% Above average	Read 266 Write 143 Mixed 174 43% 194 MB/s	4K Read 26.2 4K Write 57.5 4K Mixed 18.2 93% 33.9 MB/s	DQ Read 154 DQ Write 123 DQ Mixed 36.7 55% 105 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 53.1% Great: 81%
Crucial M4 64GB-$92 7,336 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 45GB free Firmware: 040H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (16^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 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 21384 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2460 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 96 96 126 (AE) Unknown 100 100 539 (B5) Unknown 100 100 14392531814231 (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 72 (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 33 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 96 96 4 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	44.3% Average	Read 268 Write 110 Mixed 155 39% 178 MB/s	4K Read 23.9 4K Write 58.2 4K Mixed 6.04 75% 29.4 MB/s	DQ Read 172 DQ Write 105 DQ Mixed 7.64 41% 94.7 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 44.3% Great: 65%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 870GB free Firmware: JC4A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 43712038 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1797 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 8658437436 (09) Power-on hours count 56 56 39022 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1285 (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 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 53 555089953 (C2) HDA temperature 33 47 38654705697 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 26 13 43712038 (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 66146791360168 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1201779626 (F2) Unknown 100 253 356746947	66.6% Good	Read 118 Write 114 Mixed 107 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.61 128% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 68%
Seagate ST750LM022 HN-M750MBB 750GB 31,958 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 284GB free Firmware: 2AR10002 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 89 89 3460 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1689 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7220 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 42 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 948 (B5) Unknown 100 100 511226 (B7) Unknown 252 252 0 (B8) Unknown 252 252 0 (BA) Unknown 252 252 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 6 (BC) Unknown 100 100 6 (BE) vendor-specific 67 44 240519348257 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 12 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 71 71 295747 (C2) HDA temperature 64 44 240519348257 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 671	40.1% Average	Read 75 Write 64.8 Mixed 63 51% 67.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.28 4K Mixed 0.32 79% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 40.1% Great: 57%
WDC WD80 EFAX-68LHPN0 8TB 28 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 5TB free, PID 0567 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	72.1% Very good	Read 171 Write 154 Mixed 84.8 165% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.91 4K Write 4.43 4K Mixed 0.38 167% 1.91 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 82%
WDC WD80 EFAX-68LHPN0 8TB 28 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 4.5TB free, PID 0567 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	72.8% Very good	Read 169 Write 160 Mixed 88 170% 139 MB/s	4K Read 1.19 4K Write 4.29 4K Mixed 0.4 164% 1.96 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 72.8% Great: 82%
ST8000AS 0002-1NA17Z 8TB 115 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2.5TB free, PID 0567 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	83.5% Excellent	Read 145 Write 138 Mixed 73.3 145% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 10.5 4K Mixed 0.4 372% 3.86 MB/s	DQ Read 0.67 DQ Write 2.59 DQ Mixed 0.58 110% 1.28 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 83.5% Great: 92%
WDC WD30 EZRX-00D8PB0 3TB 99 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 1TB free, PID 0567 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	55.8% Above average	Read 148 Write 127 Mixed 89.3 149% 122 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 2.11 4K Mixed 0.27 83% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 55.8% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 28,461 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (27^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	49.5% Average	MC Read 17 MC Write 16.9 MC Mixed 15.3 47% 16.4 GB/s	SC Read 14.6 SC Write 17.5 SC Mixed 16.8 47% 16.3 GB/s	Latency 63.3 63% 63.3 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 49.5% Great: 76%

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Gaming 25%

Surfboard

Desktop 76%

Battleship

Workstation 21%

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Motherboard: Asus Z77-A - $144

CPU
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	112x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	74x
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	72x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	43x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	34x
HD 4000 (Desktop 1.15 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 52,547 samples	28x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	21x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	20x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	14x

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	11x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	9x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	9x

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Total price: $580

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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