Asus SABERTOOTH Z77

Performance Results


Gaming 51% Yacht	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 40% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (83rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 17 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 73.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	66.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	66.6% 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.

Very high background CPU (40%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z77 (all builds)
Memory	17.1 GB free of 20 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120803
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 26 '17 at 03:40
Run Duration	136 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	40%

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PC Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-3570K-$136 185,516 User benchmarks, average bench 68% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	73.6% Very good	Memory 93.4 1-Core 95.1 2-Core 194 75% 128 Pts	4-Core 300 8-Core 376 43% 338 Pts	64-Core 382 24% 382 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 73.6% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% EVGA(3842 6368) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	66.2% Good	Lighting 83.7 Reflection 81.6 Parallax 79 68% 81.4 fps	MRender 72.3 Gravity 76.6 Splatting 78.2 62% 75.7 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 66.2% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 830 128GB-$109 37,250 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 43GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4472 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2424 (B1) Unknown 97 97 89 (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 74 67 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 33 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12414151056	66.6% Good	Read 497 Write 324 Mixed 381 89% 401 MB/s	4K Read 17.9 4K Write 46.2 4K Mixed 11.3 66% 25.1 MB/s	DQ Read 265 DQ Write 82.1 DQ Mixed 11.9 51% 120 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 76%
WD Black 640GB (2008)-$25 19,988 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 575GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 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 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 158 153 5066 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3856 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 9468 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3690 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 47 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3856 (C2) HDA temperature 122 97 25 (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	64.2% Good	Read 117 Write 107 Mixed 94.7 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.41 115% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 64.2% Great: 65%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 502GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 174 166 4283 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2587 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4405 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2427 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 34 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2552 (C2) HDA temperature 121 106 26 (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	62.8% Good	Read 122 Write 96.3 Mixed 99.6 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.89 4K Mixed 0.34 103% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 62.8% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMY16GX3M2A2400C11 029E CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 029E CMY16GX3M2A2400C11 20GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 4096, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	58.8% Above average	MC Read 20 MC Write 21.8 MC Mixed 18.9 58% 20.2 GB/s	SC Read 16.7 SC Write 17.2 SC Mixed 18.5 50% 17.5 GB/s	Latency 61.2 65% 61.2 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 58.8% 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	1,270x
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 $275	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