Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1

Performance Results


Gaming 88% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 98%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	88% 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	87% 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.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150624
Uptime	14 Days
Run Date	Dec 01 '16 at 13:42
Run Duration	149 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing above expectations (76^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 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	98% Outstanding	Memory 97.5 1-Core 143 2-Core 287 98% 176 Pts	4-Core 537 8-Core 723 80% 630 Pts	64-Core 762 47% 762 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 98% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4996) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1557 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.9 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	88% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 117 Parallax 104 92% 112 fps	MRender 94.6 Gravity 102 Splatting 94 79% 97 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel SSDSC2CW180A3 240GB VH 11 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 72GB free Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 32 100 32 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 189 (A6) Unknown 100 100 17 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 68 (A9) Unknown 100 100 19 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 43 (AE) Unknown 100 100 3 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 72 100 188978561052 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 10933 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1331 (F2) Unknown 253 253 702	88% Excellent	Read 516 Write 364 Mixed 417 96% 433 MB/s	4K Read 33 4K Write 130 4K Mixed 4.5 125% 55.9 MB/s	DQ Read 196 DQ Write 311 DQ Mixed 27.8 85% 178 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 88% Great: 88%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 67GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6889 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 902 (B1) Unknown 99 99 26 (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 76 64 24 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 96 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12545360976	87% Excellent	Read 528 Write 214 Mixed 312 77% 352 MB/s	4K Read 38.7 4K Write 132 4K Mixed 26.6 162% 65.7 MB/s	DQ Read 39.5 DQ Write 199 DQ Mixed 25.2 47% 87.9 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 609GB free Firmware: CC98 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 30600584 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1962 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 33318305 (09) Power-on hours count 59 59 36482 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1120 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 51540393997 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 79 39 1503592054805 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 221 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6307 (C2) HDA temperature 21 61 73014444053 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 30 8 30600584 (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 8181912715919 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2282066614 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3994333616	62.4% Good	Read 107 Write 110 Mixed 90.9 77% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 0.81 4K Mixed 0.13 50% 0.48 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 62.4% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR3 2133 C9 2x8GB 1,133 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	79.8% Very good	MC Read 28.7 MC Write 29.4 MC Mixed 24.9 79% 27.7 GB/s	SC Read 20.4 SC Write 26.2 SC Mixed 24.4 68% 23.7 GB/s	Latency 48.1 83% 48.1 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 79.8% Great: 81%

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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 $195Bench 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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Value: 62% - Good

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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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $64	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16