Asus Z77-A

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Boot Drive	54.5% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus Z77-A (all builds)
Memory	5.9 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130118
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 02 '16 at 02:20
Run Duration	115 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-3470-$59 223,595 User benchmarks, average bench 63% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	76.7% Very good	Memory 89.2 1-Core 99.4 2-Core 191 74% 126 Pts	4-Core 373 8-Core 370 50% 371 Pts	64-Core 363 22% 363 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 76.7% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R7 265-$105 8,934 User benchmarks, average bench 20% Sapphire(174B A001) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 16.300.2511.1003 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 19% Great: 21%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M4 128GB-$116 34,516 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 16GB free (System drive) Firmware: 040H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^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 5946 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2601 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 98 98 84 (AE) Unknown 100 100 139 (B5) Unknown 100 100 7636474267036 (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 81 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 98 98 2 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	54.5% Above average	Read 484 Write 188 Mixed 272 69% 315 MB/s	4K Read 21.3 4K Write 50.2 4K Mixed 5.67 66% 25.7 MB/s	DQ Read 126 DQ Write 110 DQ Mixed 6.57 35% 81 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 54.5% Great: 72%
Seagate ST3750528AS 750GB-$65 22,230 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 212GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 107738773 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8769 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 96240839 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7226 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4110 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 98785755164 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 49 655753248 (C2) HDA temperature 32 51 38654705696 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 39 17 107738773 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 6687264097804 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3797906049 (F2) Unknown 100 253 21039327	58.6% Above average	Read 116 Write 87.8 Mixed 79.1 71% 94.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.39 4K Mixed 0.37 84% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 58.6% Great: 65%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Nanya NT2GC64B8HA0NF-BE 4x2GB 36 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 4 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1067 MHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	43.1% Average	MC Read 14.5 MC Write 15 MC Mixed 13.1 41% 14.2 GB/s	SC Read 13.2 SC Write 15.5 SC Mixed 13.4 40% 14 GB/s	Latency 68.2 59% 68.2 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 43.1% Great: 43%

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

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Gaming 25%

Surfboard

Desktop 76%

Battleship

Workstation 21%

Surfboard

Motherboard: Asus Z77-A - $144

CPU
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	112x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	74x
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	72x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	43x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	34x
HD 4000 (Desktop 1.15 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 52,547 samples	28x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	21x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	20x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	14x

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	11x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	9x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	9x

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Value: 67% - Good

Total price: $580

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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) $64	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16