Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UP4 TH

Performance Results


Gaming 62% Destroyer	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 82.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	71.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	52.6% 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	Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UP4 TH (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121024
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 11 '18 at 02:33
Run Duration	152 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2-$266 8,235 User benchmarks, average bench 70% Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 V2 @ 3.30GHz, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.75 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	82.7% Excellent	Memory 97.6 1-Core 103 2-Core 204 79% 135 Pts	4-Core 371 8-Core 504 55% 438 Pts	64-Core 504 31% 504 Pts
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Nvidia(10DE 1116) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71.5% Very good	Lighting 92.3 Reflection 97.6 Parallax 85.1 75% 91.7 fps	MRender 79.9 Gravity 84 Splatting 73.2 64% 79 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 71.5% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO mSATA 250GB 4,026 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 65GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT41B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11878 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 102 (B1) Unknown 99 99 9 (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 54 39 46 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 50 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5222079259	52.6% Above average	Read 269 Write 212 Mixed 218 52% 233 MB/s	4K Read 28 4K Write 36.2 4K Mixed 17.6 84% 27.3 MB/s	DQ Read 30.5 DQ Write 147 DQ Mixed 17.3 34% 64.8 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 52.6% Great: 118%
Kingston SSDNow V Series 128GB 244 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 4GB free Firmware: E120506a Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (81^st percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 15529 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2896 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 200 200 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 42 42 180391247914 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	34.2% Below average	Read 246 Write 71.6 Mixed 103 30% 140 MB/s	4K Read 15 4K Write 34.7 4K Mixed 13.2 58% 20.9 MB/s	DQ Read 17.6 DQ Write 97 DQ Mixed 13.1 23% 42.6 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 34.2% Great: 45%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 246GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 230230064 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4694 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 3899991 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 16337 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2909 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 58 522059807 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 711 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 23458 (C2) HDA temperature 31 42 73014444063 (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 133143986182642 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2049223358 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2040566775	74% Very good	Read 127 Write 131 Mixed 132 98% 130 MB/s	4K Read 0.92 4K Write 1.06 4K Mixed 0.32 94% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLE8G3D1869DE1TX0. 2x8GB 3,080 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2000 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	73.4% Very good	MC Read 27.1 MC Write 26.5 MC Mixed 23.7 74% 25.8 GB/s	SC Read 19.4 SC Write 18.1 SC Mixed 19.9 55% 19.1 GB/s	Latency 48 83% 48 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 73.4% Great: 72%

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Gaming 44%

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Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UP4 TH

CPU
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	87x
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	42x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	32x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	18x
HD 4000 (Desktop 1.15 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 52,547 samples	13x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	11x

SSD
870 QVO 1TBSamsung $106Bench 95%, 80,665 samples	11x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	7x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	6x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	9x
RipjawsX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 51%, 9,944 samples	6x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 49%, 28,220 samples	5x

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Value: 78% - Very good

Total price: $398

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	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 $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $42	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