Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1

Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 81.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	81.6% 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	113% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

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Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 (all builds)
Memory	9.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit farver
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151027
Uptime	2.4 Days
Run Date	Aug 01 '17 at 23:10
Run Duration	167 Seconds
Run User	DNK-User
Background CPU	29%

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PC Performing above expectations (67^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 above expectations (70^th percentile)	81.9% Excellent	Memory 83.7 1-Core 124 2-Core 238 83% 149 Pts	4-Core 431 8-Core 660 68% 546 Pts	64-Core 655 40% 655 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing below potential (73^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.6% Excellent	Lighting 101 Reflection 112 Parallax 97.7 82% 104 fps	MRender 96.3 Gravity 95 Splatting 100 80% 97.2 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 81.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 161GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5897 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 699 (B1) Unknown 97 97 62 (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 47 37 53 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 4 (EB) Unknown 99 99 75 (F1) Unknown 99 99 49697204196	113% Outstanding	Read 497 Write 392 Mixed 409 96% 433 MB/s	4K Read 44.3 4K Write 94.5 4K Mixed 49.5 181% 62.8 MB/s	DQ Read 363 DQ Write 260 DQ Mixed 120 142% 248 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 134%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 146071112 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 449 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 65 60 3487839 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1088 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 122 (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 51 48 823590961 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4470 (C2) HDA temperature 49 52 77309411377 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 40 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -99922414140683 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2262026118 (F2) Unknown 100 253 95803327443	110% Outstanding	Read 201 Write 184 Mixed 158 136% 181 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.22 84% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 114%
WD Blue 2.5" 500GB (2009)-$50 31,419 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 331GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 184 151 1766 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7196 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 5861 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2488 (BF) G-sense error rate 1 1 859 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 128 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 87 87 341288 (C2) HDA temperature 101 93 46 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	38.7% Below average	Read 69.6 Write 64.9 Mixed 63.8 50% 66.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.29 78% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 38.7% Great: 43%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 98GB free Firmware: KC44 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 2408 (03) Spinup time 100 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 4006 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 502342297 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15528 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2378 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 69 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 50 33 -130093719027662 (C2) HDA temperature 50 67 51539607602 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 36 25 2408 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -48687749251279 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3961667018 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2511494988	53.8% Above average	Read 90.4 Write 97.4 Mixed 85.9 69% 91.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 0.96 4K Mixed 0.57 100% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 53.8% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905403-442.A00LF 9905584-027.A00LF 9905403-442.A00LF 99U5402-464.A00LF 16GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 1333, 1600, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	48% Average	MC Read 16.5 MC Write 17.7 MC Mixed 14.9 47% 16.4 GB/s	SC Read 12.8 SC Write 16.6 SC Mixed 14.9 42% 14.8 GB/s	Latency 73.9 54% 73.9 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 48% Great: 48%

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Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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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 $130Bench 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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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $929

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