Asus SABERTOOTH Z77

Performance Results


Gaming 61% Destroyer	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 49% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	77.8% 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	59.6% 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.

Very high background CPU (40%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z77 (all builds)
Memory	5.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130813
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Jul 05 '19 at 06:40
Run Duration	170 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	40%

PC Performing as expected (59^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 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	75.7% Very good	Memory 94.1 1-Core 87.2 2-Core 174 71% 118 Pts	4-Core 310 8-Core 449 48% 380 Pts	64-Core 468 29% 468 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 75.7% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 430.86 Performing below potential (49^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	77.8% Very good	Lighting 98.2 Reflection 106 Parallax 94.8 80% 99.5 fps	MRender 89 Gravity 94 Splatting 87.2 74% 90 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force GT 240GB-$499 4,125 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 24GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.02 SusWrite @10s intervals: 172 163 151 139 130 136 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	59.6% Above average	Read 320 Write 232 Mixed 255 SusWrite 148 53% 239 MB/s	4K Read 24 4K Write 34.3 4K Mixed 25.2 87% 27.8 MB/s	DQ Read 255 DQ Write 234 DQ Mixed 209 166% 233 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 59.6% Great: 92%
OCZ Agility2 120GB 281 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 60GB free Firmware: 1.37 SusWrite @10s intervals: 78 76 71 79 81 79 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	49.6% Average	Read 180 Write 120 Mixed 134 SusWrite 77.3 28% 128 MB/s	4K Read 24.4 4K Write 59.7 4K Mixed 27.4 104% 37.2 MB/s	DQ Read 146 DQ Write 118 DQ Mixed 116 91% 127 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 49.6% Great: 54%
WD Blue SSHD 4TB (2015)-$65 1,900 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 224GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 121 119 116 123 113 118 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	68% Good	Read 118 Write 126 Mixed 76 SusWrite 118 80% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.9 162% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 68% Great: 83%
Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 1TB-$497 27,212 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 67GB free Firmware: ST6OA31B SusWrite @10s intervals: 93 86 81 90 40 68 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	50.4% Above average	Read 99.3 Write 106 Mixed 50 SusWrite 76.2 61% 82.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.9 159% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 50.4% Great: 61%
Samsung HD160JJ/P 160GB-$40 2,028 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 115GB free Firmware: ZM100-34 SusWrite @10s intervals: 53 53 54 53 40 53 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	30.5% Below average	Read 55 Write 54.7 Mixed 38.7 SusWrite 51 37% 49.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.6 123% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 30.5% Great: 34%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 2400 C11 4x4GB 5,522 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	61.7% Good	MC Read 23 MC Write 21.5 MC Mixed 19.3 61% 21.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.5 SC Write 18.1 SC Mixed 19.3 52% 18.3 GB/s	Latency 59.4 67% 59.4 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 61.7% Great: 91%

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

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Gaming 60%

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Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 49%

Yacht

Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z77 - $210

CPU
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	1,272x
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 $94Bench 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: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $612

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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