Asus SABERTOOTH Z77

Performance Results


Gaming 69% Battle cruiser	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 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 77%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	89.1% 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	38.9% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z77 (all builds)
Memory	4.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130813
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Jun 19 '18 at 18:31
Run Duration	274 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing as expected (48^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 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	77% Very good	Memory 92.1 1-Core 106 2-Core 209 78% 136 Pts	4-Core 335 8-Core 512 52% 423 Pts	64-Core 512 32% 512 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 77% Great: 83%

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: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89.1% Excellent	Lighting 115 Reflection 119 Parallax 106 94% 113 fps	MRender 97.2 Gravity 104 Splatting 95.1 81% 98.7 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.1% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Agility 3 120GB-$102 38,562 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 7GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 102 7137537 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 130953552858141 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1151 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 419 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 7137537 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 7137537 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 7137537 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4715 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6427 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6427 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7656	38.9% Below average	Read 174 Write 113 Mixed 116 30% 134 MB/s	4K Read 15.1 4K Write 41.2 4K Mixed 15 64% 23.8 MB/s	DQ Read 135 DQ Write 124 DQ Mixed 37.2 53% 98.7 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 38.9% Great: 61%
Samsung Spinpoint F4 2TB-$119 45,158 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2TB free Firmware: 1AQ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 68 45 9995 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4429 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7509 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3763 (B5) Unknown 100 100 277658 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 9895 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 53 201864118309 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 52 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 4605	71.7% Very good	Read 105 Write 144 Mixed 112 90% 120 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 3.67 4K Mixed 0.4 132% 1.51 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 71.7% Great: 72%
WD WD3000GLFS-01F8U0 300GB 3,689 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 95GB free Firmware: 03.03V01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 200 198 2983 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6428 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 12452 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5545 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1430 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6428 (C2) HDA temperature 105 94 42 (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	51.9% Above average	Read 94.6 Write 85.5 Mixed 87 67% 89 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 2.65 4K Mixed 0.63 155% 1.38 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 51.9% Great: 68%
WD WD1500AHFD-00RAR5 150GB 1,105 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 10GB free Firmware: 21.07QR5 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 195 0 (03) Spinup time 167 161 4683 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8225 (05) Reallocated sector count 199 199 2 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 16997 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 7115 (C2) HDA temperature 104 91 43 (C4) Reallocation count 198 198 2 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 253 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	28.3% Poor	Read 44.2 Write 53.7 Mixed 49.4 37% 49.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.97 4K Write 2.01 4K Mixed 0.54 138% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 28.3% Great: 47%
WD WD1500AHFD-00RAR5 150GB 1,105 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 3GB free Firmware: 20.07P20 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 164 159 4800 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9919 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 17027 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 92 92 8202 (C2) HDA temperature 100 87 47 (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 200 253 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	28.1% Poor	Read 46.7 Write 50.6 Mixed 46.7 36% 48 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 1.77 4K Mixed 0.51 123% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 28.1% Great: 47%
SanDisk Ultra Fit USB 3.0 32GB-$16 13,359 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 29GB free, PID 5583 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	29.1% Poor	Read 135 Write 22 Mixed 37.2 62% 64.9 MB/s	4K Read 3.79 4K Write 1.22 4K Mixed 0.8 83% 1.94 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 29.1% Great: 38%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1866 C9 2x4GB 8,627 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	48.7% Average	MC Read 17.6 MC Write 16.5 MC Mixed 14.7 46% 16.3 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 16.7 SC Mixed 15.5 44% 15.5 GB/s	Latency 63.8 63% 63.8 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 48.7% Great: 71%

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Gaming 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	1,277x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	394x
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	379x

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 $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	75x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $79Bench 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 $290	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 $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	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