Asus SABERTOOTH Z77

Performance Results


Gaming 99% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 81% Aircraft carrier


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 79.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	127% 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	70.6% 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.

Very high background CPU (51%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z77 (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121219
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 16 '18 at 02:20
Run Duration	159 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	51%

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 i7-2600K-$319 147,533 User benchmarks, average bench 71% LGA1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	79.4% Very good	Memory 88.5 1-Core 114 2-Core 220 80% 141 Pts	4-Core 383 8-Core 527 58% 455 Pts	64-Core 580 36% 580 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 79.4% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 5390) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing below potential (72^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	127% Outstanding	Lighting 179 Reflection 189 Parallax 176 146% 181 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 171 Splatting 121 111% 137 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 127% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 314GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 75 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 69 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 66 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 3 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1023376946	70.6% Very good	Read 376 Write 305 Mixed 313 74% 331 MB/s	4K Read 21.7 4K Write 38.1 4K Mixed 28.9 90% 29.6 MB/s	DQ Read 255 DQ Write 131 DQ Mixed 90 94% 159 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 70.6% Great: 134%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 930GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 181312288 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2781 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 5273990 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 25548 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1275 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 36 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 40 7065625296920 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 340 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 30640 (C2) HDA temperature 24 60 73014444056 (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 84859963845181 (F1) Unknown 100 253 16215074582 (F2) Unknown 100 253 16894469758	92.8% Outstanding	Read 165 Write 159 Mixed 143 117% 156 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 1.27 4K Mixed 0.34 98% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 92.8% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 872GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 223686200 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2670 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 4300487732 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 23043 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1103 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 75 51 420872217 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 251 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 84 84 32502 (C2) HDA temperature 25 49 73014444057 (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 -121191092176332 (F1) Unknown 100 253 14370968965 (F2) Unknown 100 253 14228722527	86.2% Excellent	Read 156 Write 144 Mixed 135 109% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.14 4K Mixed 0.25 75% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 114%
Seagate ST31000333AS 1TB-$750 12,067 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 516GB free Firmware: CC1F Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 98746610 (03) Spinup time 98 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5783 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 12 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 274325248 (09) Power-on hours count 55 55 39676 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 4 (0C) Power cycle count 98 37 2669 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BC) Unknown 100 84 8590065876 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 1457 (BE) vendor-specific 71 29 106670295875613 (C2) HDA temperature 29 71 73014444061 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 34 23 98746610 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 44 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 97577362033602 (F1) Unknown 100 253 833261938 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2535984769	54.1% Above average	Read 94.1 Write 94.3 Mixed 84 68% 90.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.4 89% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 54.1% Great: 66%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905403-149.A00LF 9905403-149.A00LF 029E CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9 029E CMZ16GX3M4A1600C9 16GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	45.5% Average	MC Read 15.1 MC Write 15.8 MC Mixed 14.3 43% 15.1 GB/s	SC Read 13.6 SC Write 17.4 SC Mixed 14.5 43% 15.2 GB/s	Latency 69 58% 69 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 45.5% Great: 51%

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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	1,275x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	394x
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	379x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	168x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	161x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	157x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	82x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 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: $607

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) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16