Asus SABERTOOTH Z77

Performance Results


Gaming 24% Surfboard	Desktop 80% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 20% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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 76.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	64.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	53.4% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	4GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and although it's sufficient for most games, some will benefit from up to 8GB of RAM. 4GB is also enough for modest file and system caches which allow for a responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (20%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z77 (all builds)
Memory	1.2 GB free of 4 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130813
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 14 '18 at 00:49
Run Duration	124 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	20%

PC Performing as expected (49^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 (78^th percentile)	76.5% Very good	Memory 90.9 1-Core 101 2-Core 200 76% 131 Pts	4-Core 336 8-Core 499 52% 417 Pts	64-Core 499 31% 499 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 76.5% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 2983) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	64.2% Good	Lighting 81 Reflection 86.6 Parallax 75.8 66% 81.1 fps	MRender 81.6 Gravity 74.8 Splatting 68.7 61% 75 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 64.2% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial_CT120M500SSD4 120GB 178 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 21GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th 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 2296 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1286 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 93 93 230 (AE) Unknown 100 100 209 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1990 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 50 41 253403070514 (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 93 93 7 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 24815560348 (F7) Unknown 100 100 781493443 (F8) Unknown 100 100 1038432889	53.4% Above average	Read 377 Write 136 Mixed 173 50% 229 MB/s	4K Read 17.6 4K Write 49.3 4K Mixed 17.1 75% 28 MB/s	DQ Read 212 DQ Write 126 DQ Mixed 36.9 63% 125 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 53.4% Great: 77%
Seagate ST31000340AS 1TB-$136 7,908 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 357GB free Firmware: SD04 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 190866769 (03) Spinup time 91 84 0 (04) Start/Stop count 82 82 18576 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 64 60 193389387291 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 27423 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 66 (0C) Power cycle count 94 37 6213 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 4297654316 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 619 (BE) vendor-specific 53 42 640807534639 (C2) HDA temperature 47 58 51539607599 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 51 25 190866769 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	49% Average	Read 90.4 Write 80.1 Mixed 69.2 60% 79.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.39 4K Mixed 0.29 86% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 49% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMT8GX3M2A1866C9 1x4GB 14 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 1 of 4 slots used 4GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - ensure that an XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	25.9% Poor	MC Read 8.6 MC Write 7.5 MC Mixed 7.3 22% 7.8 GB/s	SC Read 8.2 SC Write 8.5 SC Mixed 7.2 23% 7.97 GB/s	Latency 65.9 61% 65.9 ns
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 25.9% Great: 38%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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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	1,274x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	393x
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	377x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	167x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	161x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	156x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	82x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 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: 90% - Excellent

Total price: $607

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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) $37	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