Asus SABERTOOTH Z77

Performance Results


Gaming 47% Yacht	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 39% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 89%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	52.4% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	78.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z77 (all builds)
Memory	9 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors, 3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130813
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 13 '18 at 12:27
Run Duration	279 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing as expected (54^th 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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	89% Excellent	Memory 96 1-Core 126 2-Core 247 89% 156 Pts	4-Core 444 8-Core 628 67% 536 Pts	64-Core 628 39% 628 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% MSI(1462 3160) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	52.4% Above average	Lighting 65.6 Reflection 66.5 Parallax 58.6 53% 63.5 fps	MRender 69.8 Gravity 62.1 Splatting 56 50% 62.6 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 52.4% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HyperX Savage 240GB-$120 39,518 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 16GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM00.r Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (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 1460 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 558 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 691 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2228319 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 209 (C2) HDA temperature 75 60 171799871513 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (E9) Unknown 100 100 8224 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4931 (F2) Unknown 100 100 4785 (F4) Unknown 100 100 34 (F5) Unknown 100 100 95 (F6) Unknown 100 100 2329472	78.4% Very good	Read 517 Write 350 Mixed 479 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 22.5 4K Write 58 4K Mixed 13.8 82% 31.4 MB/s	DQ Read 330 DQ Write 226 DQ Mixed 14.3 82% 190 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 78.4% Great: 111%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 876GB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 152368576 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2110 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 8765920 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3042 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 830 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 46 373667856723 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 80 53 51876266004 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 248 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 10411 (C2) HDA temperature 20 47 -140737488355308 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 168 4131 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 120009976185888 (F1) Unknown 100 253 16229624849 (F2) Unknown 100 253 11629806647	97.1% Outstanding	Read 168 Write 170 Mixed 159 125% 166 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.35 104% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 97.1% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2017)-$79 179,101 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 500GB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 74 64 27583499 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 22 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 65 60 3056462 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 110329119899676 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 9 (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 80 69 336723988 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 7 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 41 (C2) HDA temperature 20 40 68719476756 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 74 64 27583499 (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 7404523618323 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6764866910 (F2) Unknown 100 253 8405702	51% Above average	Read 99.7 Write 75.5 Mixed 60.2 58% 78.4 MB/s	4K Read 3.97 4K Write 5.57 4K Mixed 0.5 323% 3.34 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 51% Great: 90%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 327GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 187 178 7616 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1751 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3391 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 898 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 247 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 192 192 25399 (C2) HDA temperature 132 102 20 (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 5 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	59.6% Above average	Read 89.4 Write 118 Mixed 98.9 77% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.98 4K Mixed 0.17 77% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 59.6% Great: 83%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 96GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 3 (03) Spinup time 172 164 6358 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4768 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11447 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1667 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 420 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 175 175 75261 (C2) HDA temperature 131 111 19 (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 200 198 99 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	61.4% Good	Read 107 Write 106 Mixed 78.4 73% 97.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.63 4K Mixed 0.19 77% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 67%
Innostor Innostor 251GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 233GB free, PID 0903 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	15.4% Very poor	Read 40.6 Write 37.5 Mixed 8.93 34% 29 MB/s	4K Read 3.27 4K Write 0.18 4K Mixed 0.17 24% 1.21 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 15.4% Great: 35%
Generic Flash Disk 8.07 126GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 13GB free, PID 1000, Novatech 128Gb Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	26% Poor	Read 110 Write 29.6 Mixed 78.3 82% 72.6 MB/s	4K Read 4.88 4K Write 0.8 4K Mixed 0.66 68% 2.12 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 26% Great: 33%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsZ DDR3 1600 C9 3x4GB 73 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 3 of 4 slots used 12GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	34.7% Below average	MC Read 11.2 MC Write 10.4 MC Mixed 9.9 30% 10.5 GB/s	SC Read 11.4 SC Write 11.8 SC Mixed 11.3 33% 11.5 GB/s	Latency 54 74% 54 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 34.7% Great: 79%

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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	1,272x
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 $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