Asrock Z77 Extreme4

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 85.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	90.2% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (all builds)
Memory	10.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1440 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121015
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jul 03 '17 at 03:10
Run Duration	189 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (59^th 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-$115 153,165 User benchmarks, average bench 76% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	85.4% Excellent	Memory 91.6 1-Core 116 2-Core 231 85% 146 Pts	4-Core 458 8-Core 457 62% 457 Pts	64-Core 457 31% 457 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 85.4% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 176,561 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3236) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1653 MHz, MLim: 1869 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	90.2% Outstanding	Lighting 117 Reflection 125 Parallax 111 95% 118 fps	MRender 104 Gravity 106 Splatting 98.7 85% 103 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 90%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$125 615,795 User benchmarks, average bench 111% 275GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 337 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 41 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 62 59 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 2 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1521037917
Poor: 80% Great: 134%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$94 39,167 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 269GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8733 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1913 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 19508 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1816 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 85 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1827 (C2) HDA temperature 115 92 37 (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 1	63.2% Good	Read 104 Write 116 Mixed 78.9 74% 99.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 2.61 4K Mixed 0.32 105% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 84%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$48 196,953 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 177GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 28 (03) Spinup time 176 171 4200 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2075 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 21321 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1996 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 117 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1957 (C2) HDA temperature 111 95 36 (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	60.8% Good	Read 101 Write 111 Mixed 103 79% 105 MB/s	4K Read 1.09 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.47 130% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 60.8% Great: 76%
WD My Book 1TB 6,245 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 127GB free, PID 1100 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	15% Very poor	Read 30.7 Write 27.1 Mixed 30.2 38% 29.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.21 59% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 15% Great: 22%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 859B BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 859B BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 16GB 21 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	43.1% Average	MC Read 14.4 MC Write 14.9 MC Mixed 13 40% 14.1 GB/s	SC Read 13.4 SC Write 15.1 SC Mixed 13.6 40% 14 GB/s	Latency 64.8 62% 64.8 ns
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 43.1% Great: 60%

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Typical Z77 Extreme4 Builds (Compare 6,186 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings.

Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 82%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 32%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 - $183

CPU
Core i5-3570KIntel $115Bench 76%, 153,165 samples	2,625x
Core i7-3770KIntel $138Bench 77%, 122,316 samples	1,319x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 74%, 222,536 samples	685x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $340Bench 51%, 642,081 samples	537x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $290Bench 57%, 1,110,464 samples	408x
GTX 1070Nvidia $330Bench 79%, 993,871 samples	397x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $57Bench 108%, 504,559 samples	300x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $125Bench 111%, 615,795 samples	288x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $70Bench 105%, 768,156 samples	256x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 49%, 57,006 samples	217x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 53%, 31,451 samples	178x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 28,046 samples	136x

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Value: 49% - Average

Total price: $694

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-10600K $257	Nvidia RTX 3060-Ti $400	Crucial MX500 250GB $47
Intel Core i5-9600K $200	Nvidia RTX 3070 $500	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $78
Intel Core i5-10400F $161	Nvidia GTX 1660S (Super) $240	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $40

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $43	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $79	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $38	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $71	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $85	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $649	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16