Asus SABERTOOTH Z77

Performance Results

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


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 85.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	57.6% 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.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z77 (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120703
Uptime	3 Days
Run Date	Aug 19 '17 at 15:36
Run Duration	147 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (52^nd 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, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	85.6% Excellent	Memory 93.2 1-Core 117 2-Core 235 84% 148 Pts	4-Core 423 8-Core 590 64% 507 Pts	64-Core 584 36% 584 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 660-$170 123,956 User benchmarks, average bench 20% Asus(1043 8422) 2GB CLim: 1241 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 382.5 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 18% Great: 21%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WDC WD10EFRX-68JCSN0 250GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 69GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6370 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 47 (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 69 61 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 691757870	111% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 497 Mixed 503 112% 503 MB/s	4K Read 35.3 4K Write 81.7 4K Mixed 48.5 159% 55.2 MB/s	DQ Read 331 DQ Write 155 DQ Mixed 112 118% 199 MB/s
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 111%
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 69GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.22 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 118 182641641 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 19636590487355 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2100 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 93 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 182641641 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 182641641 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 182641641 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 8534 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6498 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6498 (F2) Unknown 0 0 8094	57.6% Above average	Read 500 Write 131 Mixed 205 60% 279 MB/s	4K Read 20.5 4K Write 57 4K Mixed 13.8 79% 30.4 MB/s	DQ Read 161 DQ Write 129 DQ Mixed 44.7 61% 112 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 57.6% Great: 82%
WD Red 1TB (2012)-$62 37,583 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 911GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 138 128 4083 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3709 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 17581 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 785 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 24 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3684 (C2) HDA temperature 118 107 25 (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	81.9% Excellent	Read 132 Write 153 Mixed 133 105% 140 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 2.11 4K Mixed 0.28 106% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 87%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 Kingston 9905403-400.A00LF 029E CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 Kingston 9905403-400.A00LF 16GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (10^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	50.4% Above average	MC Read 17.8 MC Write 16.8 MC Mixed 14.7 47% 16.4 GB/s	SC Read 16.2 SC Write 19.2 SC Mixed 17.9 51% 17.8 GB/s	Latency 61.6 65% 61.6 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 50.4% Great: 62%

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Desktop 79%

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Workstation 49%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z77 - $210

CPU
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	1,271x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	392x
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	377x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	166x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	161x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	155x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 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: 86% - Excellent

Total price: $626

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 $182	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) $30	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