Asrock Z77 Extreme4-M

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 79% Battleship	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 good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	89.5% 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	77% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (78%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z77 Extreme4-M (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130807
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 27 '18 at 02:17
Run Duration	170 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	78%

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-$136 185,516 User benchmarks, average bench 68% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	77.1% Very good	Memory 91.1 1-Core 77.8 2-Core 154 65% 108 Pts	4-Core 358 8-Core 406 50% 382 Pts	64-Core 437 27% 437 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4996) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89.5% Excellent	Lighting 117 Reflection 122 Parallax 108 95% 116 fps	MRender 97.9 Gravity 106 Splatting 86.8 78% 97 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M550 256GB-$152 8,333 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 179GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 16445 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 468 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 86 86 443 (AE) Unknown 100 100 121 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2159 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 72 46 231928561692 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 86 86 14 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 32866733670 (F7) Unknown 100 100 1079209506 (F8) Unknown 100 100 2097188526	77% Very good	Read 372 Write 364 Mixed 356 81% 364 MB/s	4K Read 24.9 4K Write 59.6 4K Mixed 24.3 100% 36.3 MB/s	DQ Read 231 DQ Write 193 DQ Mixed 59.7 86% 161 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 77% Great: 113%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 101GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13623 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 909 (B1) Unknown 98 98 25 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 53 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 142 (F1) Unknown 99 99 19525805269	112% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 410 Mixed 417 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 41.1 4K Write 88.2 4K Mixed 48 170% 59.1 MB/s	DQ Read 346 DQ Write 280 DQ Mixed 116 141% 247 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 134%
WD Se 4TB-$177 2,519 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 147 134 11650 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8182 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 21063 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 337 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 79 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8102 (C2) HDA temperature 120 104 32 (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	69.4% Good	Read 125 Write 117 Mixed 126 93% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 2.74 4K Mixed 0.26 98% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 69.4% Great: 100%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$109 43,695 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 506GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 211 (03) Spinup time 115 107 7216 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3001 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 22431 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2408 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 341 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 143 143 171894 (C2) HDA temperature 120 107 27 (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 18	53.5% Above average	Read 95.1 Write 91.7 Mixed 88.2 69% 91.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.1 4K Write 0.53 4K Mixed 0.25 41% 0.29 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 53.5% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 12,350 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	59.6% Above average	MC Read 21.5 MC Write 21.7 MC Mixed 19.2 59% 20.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.5 SC Write 18.8 SC Mixed 16 49% 17.1 GB/s	Latency 65.6 61% 65.6 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 59.6% Great: 64%

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Desktop 77%

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Workstation 29%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4-M - $141

CPU
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	69x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	46x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	44x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	17x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	16x
HD 4000 (Desktop 1.15 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 52,547 samples	15x

SSD
870 EVO 500GBSamsung $62Bench 104%, 60,851 samples	11x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	9x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	8x

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	9x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 75%, 4,979 samples	6x
Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBCorsairBench 52%, 2,501 samples	6x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $539

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	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 $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16