Asus SABERTOOTH Z77

Performance Results


Gaming 32% Sail boat	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 26% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 72.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	39.9% 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	32.5% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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.

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Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z77 (all builds)
Memory	10.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120605
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 13 '18 at 15:48
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	29%

PC Performing as expected (58^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 as expected (57^th percentile)	72.9% Very good	Memory 88.6 1-Core 92.3 2-Core 166 69% 116 Pts	4-Core 314 8-Core 428 47% 371 Pts	64-Core 468 29% 468 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 72.9% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 280X-$500 94,130 User benchmarks, average bench 35% Gigabyte(1458 2261) 3GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 23.20.15002.11 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	39.9% Below average	Lighting 52.1 Reflection 35.1 Parallax 66 42% 51 fps	MRender 32.7 Gravity 51.4 Splatting 42.9 35% 42.3 fps
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 39.9% Great: 39%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M500 960GB-$59 4,389 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 798GB free Firmware: MU03 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 832 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 18 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 255 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 277 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 113 (B4) Unknown 0 0 16505 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 79 54 197569347605 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 34 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 337464 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 18 (F6) Unknown 100 100 4015382806 (F7) Unknown 100 100 125546436 (F8) Unknown 100 100 15914808	87.2% Excellent	Read 484 Write 419 Mixed 438 100% 447 MB/s	4K Read 24.1 4K Write 87.3 4K Mixed 27.6 118% 46.3 MB/s	DQ Read 29 DQ Write 266 DQ Mixed 28.5 57% 108 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 87.2% Great: 101%
Crucial M4 256GB-$218 17,938 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 1GB free (System drive) Firmware: 000F Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1914 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 770 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 21 (AE) Unknown 100 100 66 (B5) Unknown 100 100 3444574651004 (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 85 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 72 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	32.5% Below average	Read 266 Write 32.2 Mixed 114 30% 138 MB/s	4K Read 15.8 4K Write 35.1 4K Mixed 5.07 49% 18.6 MB/s	DQ Read 140 DQ Write 134 DQ Mixed 5.46 40% 93.1 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 32.5% Great: 74%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 20,667 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (17^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	45.5% Average	MC Read 15.7 MC Write 15.7 MC Mixed 14.2 44% 15.2 GB/s	SC Read 12.7 SC Write 15.2 SC Mixed 15.8 42% 14.6 GB/s	Latency 68.9 58% 68.9 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 45.5% Great: 77%

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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	1,271x
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 $129Bench 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 $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 $184	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) $35	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