Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1

Performance Results


Gaming 45% Speed boat	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 39% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 67.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	66.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	82.2% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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 (63%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 (all builds)
Memory	10.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151027
Uptime	2 Days
Run Date	May 01 '17 at 00:03
Run Duration	403 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	63%

PC Performing as expected (45^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	67.1% Good	Memory 69.9 1-Core 109 2-Core 198 70% 126 Pts	4-Core 349 8-Core 482 52% 415 Pts	64-Core 619 38% 619 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 67.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 2983) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	66.1% Good	Lighting 83.2 Reflection 89.2 Parallax 77.8 68% 83.4 fps	MRender 83.4 Gravity 77.3 Splatting 71.6 63% 77.5 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 61GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 24066 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 250 (B1) Unknown 89 89 125 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 64 43 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 82 (F1) Unknown 99 99 137801170588	82.2% Excellent	Read 455 Write 337 Mixed 324 83% 372 MB/s	4K Read 36.6 4K Write 59.4 4K Mixed 22.5 116% 39.5 MB/s	DQ Read 262 DQ Write 153 DQ Mixed 59.4 84% 158 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 82.2% Great: 118%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 39GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 26449 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 251 (B1) Unknown 98 98 19 (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 70 45 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 85 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10272923903	88.2% Excellent	Read 496 Write 343 Mixed 350 88% 396 MB/s	4K Read 40.6 4K Write 65.2 4K Mixed 24.4 127% 43.4 MB/s	DQ Read 265 DQ Write 184 DQ Mixed 74 96% 174 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 88.2% Great: 118%
WD WD3000HLHX-01JJPV0 300GB 3,057 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 248GB free Firmware: 04.05G04 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 215 213 2208 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5883 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 34 34 48510 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 611 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 79 36 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 47 571932704 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 150 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5732 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	74.5% Very good	Read 126 Write 133 Mixed 122 96% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.99 4K Write 3.23 4K Mixed 0.58 165% 1.6 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 74.5% Great: 79%
Generic Flash Disk 2GB 6,669 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 2GB free, PID 6387 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	4.7% Terrible	Read 18.4 Write 3.07 Mixed 5.18 8% 8.88 MB/s	4K Read 5.66 4K Write 0.01 4K Mixed 0.01 22% 1.9 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 4.7% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Sniper DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GB 4,251 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	32.8% Below average	MC Read 11.7 MC Write 12.7 MC Mixed 10.7 33% 11.7 GB/s	SC Read 6.6 SC Write 9.2 SC Mixed 6.3 21% 7.37 GB/s	Latency 102 39% 102 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 32.8% Great: 71%

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Typical SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 Builds (Compare 678 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 - $272

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	415x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	85x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	58x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	77x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	60x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	49x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	37x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	31x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	25x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	40x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	29x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	25x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $35	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