Asus SABERTOOTH Z77

Performance Results


Gaming 98% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 80% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 85.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	116% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	72.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

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

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z77 (all builds)
Memory	11.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1600 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120803
Uptime	8.7 Days
Run Date	Feb 27 '17 at 00:34
Run Duration	303 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	20%

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PC Performing as expected (52^nd 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 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	85.7% Excellent	Memory 94.6 1-Core 117 2-Core 230 84% 147 Pts	4-Core 419 8-Core 577 63% 498 Pts	64-Core 584 36% 584 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 85.7% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6286) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.66 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	116% Outstanding	Lighting 158 Reflection 157 Parallax 148 128% 154 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 146 Splatting 113 102% 126 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 730 Series 480GB-$230 5,159 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 296GB free (System drive) Firmware: L2010420 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 96 96 2 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5795 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 664 (AA) Unknown 99 99 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 4 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 28 (AF) Unknown 100 100 8947368561 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 75 420020248 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 28 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 24 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 512197 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 0 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 63 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 5454 (E8) Unknown 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 512197 (F2) Unknown 100 100 562324	72.4% Very good	Read 368 Write 344 Mixed 366 80% 359 MB/s	4K Read 20.9 4K Write 45.6 4K Mixed 25.9 89% 30.8 MB/s	DQ Read 251 DQ Write 159 DQ Mixed 112 108% 174 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 72.4% Great: 110%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 57949512 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2848 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 68 55 47313611522 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 9902 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1307 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 60 60 40 (BE) vendor-specific 70 61 125075390494 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 41 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 69 69 63022 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 -140737488355298 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -112309099816314 (F1) Unknown 100 253 55313505186 (F2) Unknown 100 253 34658938118	90.8% Outstanding	Read 174 Write 143 Mixed 138 114% 152 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.15 4K Mixed 0.3 77% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 90.8% Great: 113%
Seagate Expansion Desk 8TB 11,959 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 1TB free Firmware: 9401 Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)	54.9% Above average	Read 114 Write 75.8 Mixed 81 68% 90.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 6.81 4K Mixed 0.45 198% 2.6 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 54.9% Great: 94%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 32199536 (03) Spinup time 93 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2576 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 57 12931036924 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 9890 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1307 (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 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 49 202418356256 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 44 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 36 36 128192 (C2) HDA temperature 32 51 -140737488355296 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 69179038241916 (F1) Unknown 100 253 54752027742 (F2) Unknown 100 253 58092226255	87.9% Excellent	Read 142 Write 165 Mixed 150 115% 152 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.02 4K Mixed 0.3 71% 0.59 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 113%
Samsung Spinpoint F2 1TB-$60 32,476 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 980GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 71 71 9570 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6486 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 96 89 105 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 20105 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 287 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2726 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 1 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 60 403505175 (C2) HDA temperature 75 58 420282393 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 2048950 (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 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	41.5% Average	Read 57.2 Write 87.4 Mixed 78.3 56% 74.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.33 4K Mixed 0.43 89% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 41.5% Great: 58%
Seagate Expansion Desk 5TB 1,232 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2.5TB free, PID 3322 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	50.6% Above average	Read 143 Write 76.8 Mixed 36.2 92% 85.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 4.24 4K Mixed 0.44 162% 1.8 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 50.6% Great: 76%
Seagate Expansion Desk 5TB 1,232 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1.5TB free, PID 3322 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	53.7% Above average	Read 114 Write 110 Mixed 43.6 107% 89 MB/s	4K Read 1.08 4K Write 4.24 4K Mixed 0.37 161% 1.9 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 53.7% Great: 76%
WD Elements 2TB 35,768 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 1.5TB free, PID 1021 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	18.6% Very poor	Read 36 Write 34.4 Mixed 21.7 38% 30.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.17 72% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 18.6% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M379B5273DH0-YK0 4x4GB 770 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	58.7% Above average	MC Read 21.6 MC Write 20.3 MC Mixed 17.5 57% 19.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 18.8 SC Mixed 19.8 54% 18.8 GB/s	Latency 58.2 69% 58.2 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 58.7% Great: 112%

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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 $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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Total price: $626

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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) $30	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