Asrock Z77 Extreme4

Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 53% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 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 87.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	72.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	84.8% 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 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.

Motherboard	Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20130711
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Apr 09 '16 at 22:41
Run Duration	180 Seconds
Run User	PRI-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing above expectations (81^st 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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.1% Excellent	Memory 95.8 1-Core 113 2-Core 228 84% 146 Pts	4-Core 455 8-Core 446 60% 450 Pts	64-Core 460 28% 460 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 87.1% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Nvidia(10DE 1116) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6451 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	72.3% Very good	Lighting 92.6 Reflection 98.8 Parallax 86.2 75% 92.5 fps	MRender 85.2 Gravity 84.5 Splatting 75.3 66% 81.7 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 72.3% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Vertex 4 128GB-$215 19,372 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 56GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 5 0 5 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4775 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1766 (E8) Unknown 100 100 24505941932 (E9) Unknown 97 0 97	84.8% Excellent	Read 454 Write 362 Mixed 361 87% 392 MB/s	4K Read 23.6 4K Write 64.6 4K Mixed 29.9 108% 39.4 MB/s	DQ Read 269 DQ Write 232 DQ Mixed 117 124% 206 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 84.8% Great: 104%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 751GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 221174216 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3861 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 55 55 966455283010 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6231 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2964 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 786461 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 53 588840990 (C2) HDA temperature 30 47 64424509470 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 38 29 221174216 (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 106382044967732 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2324416525 (F2) Unknown 100 253 490259297	65.9% Good	Read 120 Write 110 Mixed 93 81% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.36 4K Mixed 0.59 120% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 68%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 612GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 176 2158 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 139 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 453 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 68 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 4 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 134 (C2) HDA temperature 109 105 34 (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	88.8% Excellent	Read 151 Write 158 Mixed 135 111% 148 MB/s	4K Read 1.23 4K Write 2.98 4K Mixed 0.38 148% 1.53 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 88.8% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 2133 C9 2x8GB 401 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	80.5% Excellent	MC Read 29.7 MC Write 30.2 MC Mixed 26.5 82% 28.8 GB/s	SC Read 21.6 SC Write 20.5 SC Mixed 21.4 60% 21.2 GB/s	Latency 54.5 73% 54.5 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 80%

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Gaming 37%

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Desktop 77%

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Workstation 29%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 - $165

CPU
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	1,521x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	949x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	556x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	310x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	268x
HD 4000 (Desktop 1.15 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 52,547 samples	237x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	173x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	140x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	107x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	90x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	86x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	81x

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Total price: $581

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 $179	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