Asus SABERTOOTH Z77

Performance Results


Gaming 52% Yacht	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 41% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 81.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	60.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	76.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	20GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 20GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z77 (all builds)
Memory	14.9 GB free of 20 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	Χρώματα 2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130813
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Oct 23 '17 at 10:29
Run Duration	191 Seconds
Run User	GRC-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-3550-$335 23,599 User benchmarks, average bench 69% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	81.3% Excellent	Memory 94.1 1-Core 103 2-Core 206 78% 134 Pts	4-Core 396 8-Core 402 53% 399 Pts	64-Core 396 24% 396 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 81.3% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 390X-$340 26,573 User benchmarks, average bench 54% MSI(1462 2015) CLim: 1080 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.7 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	60.8% Good	Lighting 76.4 Reflection 64.3 Parallax 99.7 62% 80.2 fps	MRender 64.2 Gravity 62.8 Splatting 80.7 58% 69.2 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 60.8% Great: 57%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 126GB free Firmware: EXM01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3315 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 753 (B1) Unknown 99 99 19 (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 67 52 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 31 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9964602236	94.5% Outstanding	Read 521 Write 482 Mixed 508 113% 504 MB/s	4K Read 28 4K Write 68.3 4K Mixed 37.5 127% 44.6 MB/s	DQ Read 30.9 DQ Write 179 DQ Mixed 20.6 41% 76.8 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 94.5% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Pro 128GB-$70 18,195 User benchmarks, average bench 99% 28GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3323 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 755 (B1) Unknown 98 98 71 (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 65 55 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 28 (F1) Unknown 99 99 18644116360	76.9% Very good	Read 511 Write 313 Mixed 375 88% 400 MB/s	4K Read 26.8 4K Write 66.2 4K Mixed 18.1 99% 37 MB/s	DQ Read 199 DQ Write 174 DQ Mixed 87.2 92% 153 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 76.9% Great: 119%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$60 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 99 21372064 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 705 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 4304756098 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1787 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 396 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 99 99 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 23 (BD) vendor-specific 94 94 6 (BE) vendor-specific 63 51 9279242277 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 37 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 12080 (C2) HDA temperature 37 49 -140737488355291 (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 -111012019698891 (F1) Unknown 100 253 14447460289 (F2) Unknown 100 253 13359799738	95.4% Outstanding	Read 175 Write 158 Mixed 160 124% 164 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.26 4K Mixed 0.29 84% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 95.4% Great: 113%
WD WD30 3TB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 1.5TB free Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	59.9% Above average	Read 114 Write 94 Mixed 81.6 72% 96.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 2.18 4K Mixed 0.25 98% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 59.9% Great: 60%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 171GB free Firmware: 07.04C07 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 237 166 1150 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4953 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10558 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3326 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 244 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4943 (C2) HDA temperature 104 94 43 (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	49.3% Average	Read 90.1 Write 81.6 Mixed 83.3 64% 85 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.03 4K Mixed 0.31 84% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 49.3% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMX4GX3M2A1600C9 029E CML16GX3M2A1600C9 029E CMX4GX3M2A1600C9 029E CML16GX3M2A1600C9 20GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 2048, 8192, 2048, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	60.3% Good	MC Read 21.4 MC Write 22.2 MC Mixed 18.6 59% 20.7 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 17.5 SC Mixed 19.2 51% 17.9 GB/s	Latency 59.4 67% 59.4 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 60.3% Great: 60%

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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	1,275x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	394x
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	378x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	168x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	161x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	157x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	82x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	75x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $75Bench 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: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $612

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16