Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1

Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 79.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	83.5% 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	111% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). 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	9.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit farver
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151027
Uptime	14.9 Days
Run Date	Mar 23 '18 at 20:52
Run Duration	162 Seconds
Run User	DNK-User
Background CPU	12%

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PC Performing as expected (57^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 as expected (53^rd percentile)	79.5% Very good	Memory 82.7 1-Core 119 2-Core 225 80% 142 Pts	4-Core 412 8-Core 620 64% 516 Pts	64-Core 628 39% 628 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 79.5% 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: 391.24 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	83.5% Excellent	Lighting 104 Reflection 115 Parallax 98.7 85% 106 fps	MRender 97 Gravity 96.7 Splatting 101 81% 98.3 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 83.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 141GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8842 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1001 (B1) Unknown 94 94 108 (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 59 37 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 4 (EB) Unknown 99 99 77 (F1) Unknown 99 99 89229631607	111% Outstanding	Read 497 Write 389 Mixed 408 96% 431 MB/s	4K Read 44.3 4K Write 90.3 4K Mixed 48.6 177% 61.1 MB/s	DQ Read 344 DQ Write 250 DQ Mixed 120 138% 238 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 134%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$84 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 93639744 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 998 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 15922455 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4010 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 424 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065668 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 61 48 672464935 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 21397 (C2) HDA temperature 39 52 68719476775 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 228 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 49396418873940 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5599852487 (F2) Unknown 100 253 224549443201	94% Outstanding	Read 169 Write 158 Mixed 152 120% 160 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.65 4K Mixed 0.17 81% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 94% Great: 114%
WD Blue 2.5" 500GB (2009)-$50 31,419 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 303GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 183 151 1850 (04) Start/Stop count 87 87 13376 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8723 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2790 (BF) G-sense error rate 1 1 860 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 257 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 1002154 (C2) HDA temperature 115 93 32 (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	37.9% Below average	Read 66.3 Write 65.7 Mixed 65.8 50% 65.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.29 79% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 37.9% Great: 43%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$24 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 102GB free Firmware: KC44 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 1672 (03) Spinup time 100 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4442 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 506902838 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 18422 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2680 (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 58 33 -130089558409174 (C2) HDA temperature 42 67 -140737488355286 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 30 25 1672 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 4 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 33011118656133 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2553384232 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4102407043	54.4% Above average	Read 95.3 Write 94.3 Mixed 84.4 69% 91.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.05 4K Mixed 0.58 106% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 54.4% 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	45% Average	MC Read 15.5 MC Write 16.5 MC Mixed 13.9 44% 15.3 GB/s	SC Read 11.7 SC Write 15.1 SC Mixed 14.5 39% 13.8 GB/s	Latency 75.8 53% 75.8 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 45% 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 $245Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	60x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	49x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 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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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) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16