Asus Z77-A

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU, SSD
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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 8 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.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z77-A (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140318
Uptime	2.2 Days
Run Date	Apr 18 '16 at 23:48
Run Duration	203 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	21%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-3330 51,926 User benchmarks, average bench 61% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	80.2% Excellent	Memory 96.8 1-Core 91.2 2-Core 190 74% 126 Pts	4-Core 370 8-Core 367 49% 368 Pts	64-Core 374 23% 374 Pts
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 80.2% Great: 69%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 560-$180 23,273 User benchmarks, average bench 14% Nvidia(10DE 1227) 1GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.5906 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 12% Great: 15%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
SISTEMA 1TB 629GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	72.3% Very good	Read 120 Write 130 Mixed 99.4 87% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 7.04 4K Mixed 0.53 204% 2.65 MB/s

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 292GB free Firmware: CC37 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 229782873 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1094 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 113947854 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12976 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 440 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 313 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 59 538902560 (C2) HDA temperature 32 41 85899345952 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 40 28 229782873 (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 -121423020411333 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1820464471 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2771537970	62.8% Good	Read 111 Write 108 Mixed 108 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.48 4K Mixed 0.49 113% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 62.8% Great: 70%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$32 107,978 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 108GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 215583734 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2202 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 25770003 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 5039 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2109 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 4 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 44 65030455332 (C2) HDA temperature 36 56 81604378660 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 39 28 215583734 (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 46978352294302 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2083058564 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3346011742	45.1% Average	Read 95.9 Write 61.2 Mixed 68.7 56% 75.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.27 4K Mixed 0.53 100% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 45.1% Great: 70%
HitachiG ST 500GB 401 User benchmarks, average bench 22% 112GB free, PID 1014 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	17.2% Very poor	Read 40.3 Write 38.2 Mixed 38.4 50% 39 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 0.94 4K Mixed 0.14 38% 0.51 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 17.2% Great: 34%
Seagate Portable 500GB 793 User benchmarks, average bench 22% 96GB free, PID 2332 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	35.6% Below average	Read 81.7 Write 84 Mixed 38.1 84% 67.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.33 72% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 35.6% Great: 40%

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 @ 2000 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	71.8% Very good	MC Read 25.8 MC Write 27.8 MC Mixed 22.6 73% 25.4 GB/s	SC Read 18.4 SC Write 17 SC Mixed 19.7 52% 18.4 GB/s	Latency 51.2 78% 51.2 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 71.8% Great: 76%

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Gaming 25%

Surfboard

Desktop 76%

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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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Value: 67% - Good

Total price: $580

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $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