Asus P8Z77-V LX

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 55% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 81.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	89.8% 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	87.8% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Motherboard	Asus P8Z77-V LX (all builds)
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140721
Uptime	2.9 Days
Run Date	Jan 31 '17 at 13:23
Run Duration	233 Seconds
Run User	THA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (55^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% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	81.7% Excellent	Memory 90.4 1-Core 106 2-Core 211 78% 136 Pts	4-Core 423 8-Core 421 56% 422 Pts	64-Core 422 26% 422 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 81.7% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36B6) CLim: 1505 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.49 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89.8% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 128 Parallax 129 91% 123 fps	MRender 108 Gravity 107 Splatting 103 87% 106 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 96GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2654 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 335 (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 60 47 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 171 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11067655823	87.8% Excellent	Read 510 Write 400 Mixed 405 97% 438 MB/s	4K Read 37.5 4K Write 86.3 4K Mixed 21.9 131% 48.6 MB/s	DQ Read 40 DQ Write 182 DQ Mixed 21.9 43% 81.3 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 134%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 190 178 5475 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1256 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 23053 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 399 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 230 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8883 (C2) HDA temperature 112 96 38 (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	78.6% Very good	Read 135 Write 138 Mixed 148 106% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 2.65 4K Mixed 0.28 117% 1.27 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 78.6% Great: 83%
Seagate Archive HDD 8TB (2015)-$130 2,225 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 1.5TB free Firmware: AR15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 95905000 (03) Spinup time 94 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 233 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 20253048 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 7901 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 158 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 38655295497 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 63 52 790626341 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 418 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5140 (C2) HDA temperature 37 48 68719476773 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 115 99 95905000 (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 26671746913975 (F1) Unknown 100 253 20203128688 (F2) Unknown 100 253 9433557134
Poor: 21% Great: 87%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$50 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 978GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 24 (03) Spinup time 186 173 5675 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1270 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 23042 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 401 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 230 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1039 (C2) HDA temperature 113 102 37 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 1	57.8% Above average	Read 98.2 Write 103 Mixed 97.1 75% 99.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 2.06 4K Mixed 0.21 80% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 57.8% Great: 88%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 207GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 191 184 6441 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1234 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 18543 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 822 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 530 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 14372 (C2) HDA temperature 111 89 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 2 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	52.9% Above average	Read 89.6 Write 94.5 Mixed 88.1 68% 90.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.2 71% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 52.9% Great: 59%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 29GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 192 184 6358 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1205 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 16948 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 714 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 533 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 191 191 28846 (C2) HDA temperature 108 90 39 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 2 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 4	38.3% Below average	Read 66.3 Write 66.9 Mixed 63.4 49% 65.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.28 4K Mixed 0.19 61% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 38.3% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GB 18,444 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	29.6% Poor	MC Read 9.5 MC Write 9.5 MC Mixed 8.3 26% 9.1 GB/s	SC Read 9.3 SC Write 10.1 SC Mixed 9.3 27% 9.57 GB/s	Latency 66.6 60% 66.6 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 29.6% Great: 71%

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Gaming 37%

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Desktop 76%

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Workstation 29%

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Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V LX

CPU
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	1,406x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	1,166x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	1,072x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	375x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	366x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	302x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	214x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	196x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	149x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	138x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	131x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	105x

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Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $364

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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 $45	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