Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1

Performance Results


Gaming 42% Speed boat	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 35% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 81.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	51.1% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	46.2% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	10GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 10GB 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	6.6 GB free of 10 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140930
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 20 '17 at 06:27
Run Duration	241 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3-$217 8,137 User benchmarks, average bench 73% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	81.6% Excellent	Memory 94.3 1-Core 109 2-Core 213 80% 139 Pts	4-Core 373 8-Core 561 58% 467 Pts	64-Core 576 36% 576 Pts
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 81.6% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Gigabyte(1458 367A) CLim: 1519 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing below potential (76^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	51.1% Above average	Lighting 68.3 Reflection 64.8 Parallax 53.7 56% 62.3 fps	MRender 57.4 Gravity 51.4 Splatting 47.9 42% 52.2 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 51.1% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force 3 120GB-$109 22,358 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 34GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.07 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 104 104 7898858 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 24945170068264 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1992 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 234 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 128 129 545469300864 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 7898858 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 7898858 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 7898858 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 18244 (EA) Unknown 0 0 17024 (F1) Unknown 0 0 17024 (F2) Unknown 0 0 19904	46.2% Average	Read 192 Write 81.5 Mixed 101 27% 125 MB/s	4K Read 22 4K Write 89.3 4K Mixed 13.6 98% 41.6 MB/s	DQ Read 136 DQ Write 104 DQ Mixed 25.2 44% 88.2 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 46.2% Great: 61%
Hitachi Deskstar P7K500 250GB-$44 9,759 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 206GB free Firmware: GM2OA5CA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 133 133 139 (03) Spinup time 111 111 12897026232 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 9993 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 131 131 29 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 15022 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 4930 (C0) Power-off retract count 83 83 21047 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 83 83 21047 (C2) HDA temperature 200 200 219044118558 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1	44.3% Average	Read 83.2 Write 71.2 Mixed 68.8 56% 74.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.24 4K Write 1.28 4K Mixed 0.25 61% 0.59 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 44.3% Great: 50%
WD WD1600JS-00NCB1 250GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 145GB free Firmware: 10.02E01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 191 185 5416 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3595 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 5885 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2720 (BE) vendor-specific 58 37 42 (C2) HDA temperature 108 87 42 (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 30 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	33.4% Below average	Read 57.4 Write 58.8 Mixed 52.8 42% 56.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.26 78% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 33.4% Great: 35%
WD Black 640GB (2008)-$25 19,988 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 116GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 173 4158 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9315 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 15590 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4445 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 473 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8841 (C2) HDA temperature 114 97 33 (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 3 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	66.6% Good	Read 132 Write 100 Mixed 91.4 81% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 2.09 4K Mixed 0.25 84% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 65%
Samsung HD250HJ 250GB 11,393 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 35GB free Firmware: FH100-06 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 4416 (04) Start/Stop count 85 85 15937 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 16129 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5172 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 305834 (B8) Unknown 253 253 0 (BB) vendor-specific 80 80 131093 (BC) Unknown 253 253 0 (BE) vendor-specific 166 112 704970776 (C2) HDA temperature 157 109 721747995 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 305834 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 253 253 0	55.1% Above average	Read 96.8 Write 95.1 Mixed 66.1 64% 86 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.25 81% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 55.1% Great: 56%
Maxtor STM3250310AS 250GB 13,068 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 23GB free Firmware: 3.AAC Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 77 161372456 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10265 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 77124785 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 27868 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 99 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6218 (BB) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 54 572194850 (C2) HDA temperature 34 46 47244640290 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 82 54 86502232 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 188 454 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	44.1% Average	Read 81.1 Write 72.4 Mixed 77.2 58% 76.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.31 4K Mixed 0.28 77% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 44.1% Great: 53%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 Samsung M378B5673FH0-CH9 0215 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 10GB 1600, 1333, 1600 MHz 4096, 2048, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	35.3% Below average	MC Read 11.5 MC Write 11.6 MC Mixed 9.8 31% 11 GB/s	SC Read 10.9 SC Write 12.1 SC Mixed 11.4 33% 11.5 GB/s	Latency 59.1 68% 59.1 ns

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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	418x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	86x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	60x

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	50x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	38x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 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 $289	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16