Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1

Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	95.3% 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	81.7% 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	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151027
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 13 '16 at 14:27
Run Duration	149 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (69^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 way above expectations (96^th percentile)	87.2% Excellent	Memory 91.8 1-Core 129 2-Core 242 87% 154 Pts	4-Core 446 8-Core 667 69% 556 Pts	64-Core 695 43% 695 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 87.2% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36DD) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6869 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.3% Outstanding	Lighting 124 Reflection 125 Parallax 112 101% 120 fps	MRender 103 Gravity 109 Splatting 98.1 84% 103 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 750GB-$160 24,471 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 517GB free Firmware: M0CR011 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^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 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 58 180390395940 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 388112026 (F7) Unknown 100 100 12139004 (F8) Unknown 100 100 635004 (B4) Unknown 0 0 3574 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	83.8% Excellent	Read 481 Write 328 Mixed 335 84% 381 MB/s	4K Read 26.4 4K Write 68.5 4K Mixed 25.6 109% 40.2 MB/s	DQ Read 312 DQ Write 210 DQ Mixed 45.2 92% 189 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 83.8% Great: 104%
Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB-$70 27,495 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 170GB free (System drive) Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 35730541 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 -117149527963542 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2095 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 424 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 32 38 60132032544 (C2) HDA temperature 32 38 60132032544 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 35730541 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 35730541 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 35730541 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 5589 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6166 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6166 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11906	81.7% Excellent	Read 506 Write 255 Mixed 307 78% 356 MB/s	4K Read 26.1 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 20 120% 50.1 MB/s	DQ Read 262 DQ Write 222 DQ Mixed 85.4 107% 190 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 81.7% Great: 94%
WD My Book 1140 2TB 65 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 2TB free Firmware: 1012 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 170 165 6491 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4106 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1858 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3869 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 216 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 194 194 19239 (C2) HDA temperature 103 100 47 (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 4 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	69.7% Good	Read 120 Write 123 Mixed 121 91% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 2.35 4K Mixed 0.2 90% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 69.7% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GB 24,592 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 2400 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (39^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	53.1% Above average	MC Read 18.6 MC Write 18.9 MC Mixed 16 51% 17.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 19.9 SC Mixed 17.6 49% 17.3 GB/s	Latency 64.5 62% 64.5 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 53.1% Great: 88%

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Gaming 43%

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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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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