Asus SABERTOOTH Z77

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 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 76.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	92.7% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	48.4% 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 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z77 (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20120803
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 06 '17 at 10:09
Run Duration	190 Seconds
Run User	MEX-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing as expected (40^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3770K-$175 165,979 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	76.1% Very good	Memory 92.1 1-Core 108 2-Core 216 80% 139 Pts	4-Core 325 8-Core 522 52% 423 Pts	64-Core 518 32% 518 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$265 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3362) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	92.7% Outstanding	Lighting 108 Reflection 157 Parallax 149 88% 138 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 144 Splatting 113 102% 125 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 92.7% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Extreme 240GB-$200 7,034 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 38GB free (System drive) Firmware: R211 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 108 17970234 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 56504589763760 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2476 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 1228 (B1) Unknown 0 0 6 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 25 48 51542753305 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 17970234 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 17970234 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 17970234 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11680 (EA) Unknown 0 0 10029 (F1) Unknown 0 0 10029 (F2) Unknown 0 0 16065	48.4% Average	Read 389 Write 157 Mixed 160 51% 235 MB/s	4K Read 22.5 4K Write 13.5 4K Mixed 17.7 64% 17.9 MB/s	DQ Read 106 DQ Write 54.1 DQ Mixed 51.4 46% 70.6 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 48.4% Great: 91%
Toshiba MK3265GSX H 320GB 991 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 225GB free Firmware: GJ001Q Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1149 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2141 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 699 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 2547 (0A) Spinup retry count 142 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2091 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 287 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 16 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 35723 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 236223987734 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 187 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 3 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 55 (DE) Loaded hours 97 97 1533 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 338 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	39.8% Below average	Read 68.2 Write 70.5 Mixed 8.68 35% 49.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.44 4K Mixed 0.3 79% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 39.8% Great: 50%
Seagate ST9250315AS 250GB-$20 12,691 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 115GB free Firmware: 0004SDM2 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 160788631 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1936 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 69953925 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3881 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 37 1711 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BC) Unknown 100 99 6 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 78 55 370540566 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1501 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 42 42 117205 (C2) HDA temperature 22 45 51539607574 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 50 49 160788631 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	34.6% Below average	Read 62.5 Write 58 Mixed 23.7 35% 48.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 1.03 4K Mixed 0.33 71% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 34.6% Great: 43%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 94GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 173 4083 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2856 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 17536 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2671 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 159 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2696 (C2) HDA temperature 117 94 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	44.4% Average	Read 79.6 Write 74.6 Mixed 12.4 40% 55.5 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 1.78 4K Mixed 0.41 120% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 44.4% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 20,667 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	51.6% Above average	MC Read 18.4 MC Write 17.5 MC Mixed 15.7 49% 17.2 GB/s	SC Read 15 SC Write 18.2 SC Mixed 18.2 49% 17.1 GB/s	Latency 63.9 63% 63.9 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 51.6% Great: 77%

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Gaming 60%

Gunboat

Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 49%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z77 - $210

CPU
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	1,274x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	393x
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	377x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	167x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	161x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	156x

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 $269	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 $40	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