Asrock Z77 Extreme4

Performance Results


Gaming 47% Yacht	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 37% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 80.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	54.7% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (all builds)
Memory	6.2 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130711
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 22 '17 at 19:51
Run Duration	126 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	11%

PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-3570K-$136 185,516 User benchmarks, average bench 68% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	80.3% Excellent	Memory 92.3 1-Core 103 2-Core 202 77% 133 Pts	4-Core 396 8-Core 396 53% 396 Pts	64-Core 394 24% 394 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% EVGA(3842 2974) CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	54.7% Above average	Lighting 68.7 Reflection 70.7 Parallax 62.7 56% 67.4 fps	MRender 73.7 Gravity 63.6 Splatting 56.9 52% 64.7 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 54.7% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Extreme Pro 960GB-$300 2,857 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 159GB free Firmware: X212T0RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 1968 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 312 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 92 (A8) Unknown 100 100 43 (A9) Unknown 100 100 1709 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 5 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 72 41 176094838812 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 6 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2839 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2170 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2987 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	65.2% Good	Read 343 Write 366 Mixed 344 79% 351 MB/s	4K Read 16.6 4K Write 41.9 4K Mixed 18.9 72% 25.8 MB/s	DQ Read 185 DQ Write 138 DQ Mixed 12.3 50% 112 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 65.2% Great: 114%
Seagate ST3500630AS 500GB-$102 29,256 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 401GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3.AAE Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 106 82 10687840 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 6014 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 59 55 816190080272 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 22579 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6375 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 39 589234210 (C2) HDA temperature 34 61 47244640290 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 66 52 173924916 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	40.4% Average	Read 68.6 Write 72.2 Mixed 63.8 51% 68.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.35 78% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 40.4% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C8 2x4GB 2,902 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	62.4% Good	MC Read 22.4 MC Write 22.7 MC Mixed 20.4 62% 21.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.5 SC Write 18.1 SC Mixed 18.1 51% 17.9 GB/s	Latency 63.6 63% 63.6 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 62.4% Great: 63%

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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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Gaming 37%

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Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 29%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 - $165

CPU
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	1,521x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	948x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	556x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	309x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	268x
HD 4000 (Desktop 1.15 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 52,547 samples	237x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	173x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	140x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	107x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	90x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	86x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	81x

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Value: 60% - Good

Total price: $581

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