Asus SABERTOOTH Z77

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 91.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	91.5% 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	56.2% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z77 (all builds)
Memory	14 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130813
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 08 '18 at 05:29
Run Duration	115 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-2500K-$246 143,007 User benchmarks, average bench 66% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.2% Outstanding	Memory 96.5 1-Core 127 2-Core 255 90% 159 Pts	4-Core 496 8-Core 503 67% 499 Pts	64-Core 511 32% 511 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 91.2% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Zotac(19DA 1435) CLim: 2151 MHz, MLim: 2097 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.31 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.5% Outstanding	Lighting 113 Reflection 110 Parallax 83.2 92% 102 fps	MRender 103 Gravity 113 Splatting 112 90% 110 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 750GB-$109 24,471 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 292GB free (System drive) Firmware: M0C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (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 7604 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1893 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 96 96 43 (AE) Unknown 100 100 173 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 67 47 227634184225 (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 96 96 4 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 28018909590 (F7) Unknown 100 100 878779849 (F8) Unknown 100 100 455669627 (B4) Unknown 0 0 3514 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	56.2% Above average	Read 365 Write 255 Mixed 217 62% 279 MB/s	4K Read 16 4K Write 30.2 4K Mixed 16.6 62% 20.9 MB/s	DQ Read 207 DQ Write 113 DQ Mixed 42.5 63% 121 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 56.2% Great: 104%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 539GB free Firmware: 05.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 176 171 4175 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9784 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 24455 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6842 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 994 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8789 (C2) HDA temperature 116 103 31 (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 2	47.7% Average	Read 94 Write 72 Mixed 111 70% 92.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 0.31 89% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 47.7% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905403-400.A00LF 9905403-433.A00LF 9905403-433.A00LF 9905403-400.A00LF 16GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	63.2% Good	MC Read 20.9 MC Write 22.9 MC Mixed 19.7 60% 21.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 22.6 SC Mixed 21 58% 20.4 GB/s	Latency 52.1 77% 52.1 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 63%

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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 $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16