Asus P8Z77-V LX2

Performance Results


Gaming 22% Surfboard	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 19% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 80.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	21.6% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	78.1% 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.

High background CPU (23%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus P8Z77-V LX2 (all builds)
Memory	10.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120911
Uptime	2 Days
Run Date	Jan 08 '18 at 16:18
Run Duration	147 Seconds
Run User	BEL-User
Background CPU	23%

PC Performing as expected (51^st 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 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	80.7% Excellent	Memory 89.3 1-Core 116 2-Core 227 82% 144 Pts	4-Core 390 8-Core 555 59% 473 Pts	64-Core 566 35% 566 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 660-$170 123,956 User benchmarks, average bench 20% Asus(1043 8422) 2GB CLim: 1241 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	21.6% Poor	Lighting 25 Reflection 24.5 Parallax 31.3 20% 26.9 fps	MRender 34 Gravity 29.3 Splatting 25.9 24% 29.8 fps
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 21.6% Great: 21%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 290GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13409 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1278 (B1) Unknown 98 98 29 (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 62 54 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 20 (F1) Unknown 99 99 27935888531	78.1% Very good	Read 494 Write 399 Mixed 408 96% 434 MB/s	4K Read 31.8 4K Write 70 4K Mixed 18.9 109% 40.2 MB/s	DQ Read 33.7 DQ Write 55.5 DQ Mixed 18.8 22% 36 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 134%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 106GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 148 145 9575 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12217 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 60 60 29746 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1618 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 39 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 75 75 376451 (C2) HDA temperature 116 101 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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	43% Average	Read 93.4 Write 56.2 Mixed 87.5 60% 79 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.17 80% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 43% Great: 83%
WD WD5000KS-00MNB0 500GB 1,097 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 136GB free Firmware: 07.02E07 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 12 (03) Spinup time 226 223 5691 (04) Start/Stop count 78 78 22190 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 31 31 51059 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4018 (C2) HDA temperature 253 253 46 (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 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	33.1% Below average	Read 56.9 Write 58.2 Mixed 67 46% 60.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.32 92% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 33.1% Great: 40%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 23,732 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	49.6% Average	MC Read 18 MC Write 16.8 MC Mixed 14.9 47% 16.6 GB/s	SC Read 15.1 SC Write 17.8 SC Mixed 16.9 47% 16.6 GB/s	Latency 68.1 59% 68.1 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 49.6% Great: 61%

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Gaming 41%

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Desktop 76%

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Workstation 32%

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Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V LX2

CPU
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	291x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	248x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	219x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	100x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	97x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	59x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	46x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	37x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	33x

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	36x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	29x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	26x

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Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $280

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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