Asus G73Sw

Performance Results


Gaming 10% Tree trunk	Desktop 66% Battle cruiser	Workstation 10% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	6.93% 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.
Boot Drive	56.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

System	Asus G73Sw (all builds)
Motherboard	ASUSTeK G73Sw
Memory	10.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110210
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 01 '16 at 08:09
Run Duration	113 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2860QM-$469 4,317 User benchmarks, average bench 62% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.5 GHz, turbo 27,317,020 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	71.6% Very good	Memory 81.2 1-Core 88.3 2-Core 174 67% 114 Pts	4-Core 343 8-Core 439 50% 391 Pts	64-Core 442 27% 442 Pts
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 71.6% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GTX 460M 3,887 User benchmarks, average bench 6% Asus(1043 2048) 1GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6175 Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	6.93% Terrible	Lighting 8.13 Reflection 9.58 Parallax 6.69 7% 8.13 fps	MRender 10.1 Gravity 8.73 Splatting 8.91 8% 9.25 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 6.93% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 830 128GB-$109 37,250 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 51GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5620 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3512 (B1) Unknown 96 96 146 (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 66 56 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 321 (EB) Unknown 99 99 77 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9279131758	56.8% Above average	Read 480 Write 233 Mixed 390 81% 368 MB/s	4K Read 12 4K Write 33.5 4K Mixed 15.7 56% 20.4 MB/s	DQ Read 222 DQ Write 53.4 DQ Mixed 57.9 63% 111 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 56.8% Great: 76%
WD Black 2.5" 750GB (2011)-$87 21,339 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 73GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 168 1983 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3376 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3560 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2496 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 133 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 186 186 44806 (C2) HDA temperature 108 88 39 (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	50.5% Above average	Read 108 Write 67.8 Mixed 73.5 62% 83.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.2 68% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 50.5% Great: 71%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 99 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR3 1600 MHz Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	55.2% Above average	MC Read 19.9 MC Write 20.3 MC Mixed 18 55% 19.4 GB/s	SC Read 15.6 SC Write 15.5 SC Mixed 17.4 46% 16.2 GB/s	Latency 78.4 51% 78.4 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 55.2% Great: 60%

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Gaming 8%

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Desktop 55%

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Workstation 7%

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System: Asus G73Sw

CPU
Core i7-2630QMIntel $199Bench 55%, 39,605 samples	159x
Core i7-2820QMIntel $230Bench 59%, 4,929 samples	1x

GPU
GeForce GTX 460MNvidiaBench 6%, 3,887 samples	160x

SSD
LMT-256M6M mSATA 256GBLiteonitBench 73%, 4,013 samples	5x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	3x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	3x

RAM
M471B5773CHS-CH9 4x2GBSamsungBench 45%, 318 samples	24x
EBJ21UE8BFU0-DJ-F 4x2GBUnknownBench 42%, 289 samples	19x
M471B5273CH0-CH9 2x4GBSamsungBench 41%, 10,285 samples	14x

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Value: 60% - Good

Total price: $199

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	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 $163	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 $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16