Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (88th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 12 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 89.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	91.6% 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	98.8% 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.

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Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2 (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151027
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 25 '17 at 08:42
Run Duration	112 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	100%

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PC Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	89.7% Excellent	Memory 94.3 1-Core 113 2-Core 233 84% 147 Pts	4-Core 466 8-Core 619 69% 543 Pts	64-Core 609 38% 609 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 89.7% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Zotac(19DA 1435) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2052 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.6% Outstanding	Lighting 118 Reflection 117 Parallax 100 96% 112 fps	MRender 98 Gravity 102 Splatting 103 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY SSD2SC480G1CS2754D117-514 480GB 1,168 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 398GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS211101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3399 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1525 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 121 (B1) Unknown 0 0 8 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 35 100 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 776 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 103 (E7) Temperature 99 100 35 (E9) Unknown 0 0 1 (EA) Unknown 0 0 100 (F1) Unknown 0 0 26587 (F2) Unknown 0 0 18200	98.8% Outstanding	Read 500 Write 410 Mixed 449 101% 453 MB/s	4K Read 21.8 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 36.7 134% 53.4 MB/s	DQ Read 272 DQ Write 289 DQ Mixed 70.2 111% 210 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 98.8% Great: 106%
Seagate ST32000540AS 2TB 398 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 971GB free Firmware: CC83 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 174139728 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3479 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 47 580309003135 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 26769 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2836 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BC) Unknown 100 98 25770197466 (BD) vendor-specific 77 77 23 (BE) vendor-specific 68 47 555745312 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 9 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 621 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3574 (C2) HDA temperature 32 53 68719476768 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 45 27 174139728 (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 -108177341251248 (F1) Unknown 100 253 39973044 (F2) Unknown 100 253 6449538	67.4% Good	Read 117 Write 118 Mixed 91.9 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 0.41 4K Mixed 0.26 60% 0.41 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 67.4% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1866 CL10 Series 2x8GB 7,244 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	69% Good	MC Read 25 MC Write 25.5 MC Mixed 21.6 69% 24 GB/s	SC Read 17.8 SC Write 21.1 SC Mixed 22.8 59% 20.6 GB/s	Latency 59 68% 59 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 68%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2 - $183

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	358x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	104x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	103x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	105x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	54x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	37x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	53x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	35x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	32x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	53x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	21x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	20x

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Total price: $831

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