Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX

Performance Results


Gaming 48% Yacht	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 39% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 66%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	70.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	66.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (17%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121016
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 05 '17 at 22:52
Run Duration	188 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	17%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8150-$770 22,181 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	66% Good	Memory 90 1-Core 72.4 2-Core 132 61% 98 Pts	4-Core 229 8-Core 375 37% 302 Pts	64-Core 383 24% 383 Pts
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 66% Great: 66%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3233) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.66 Performing below potential (10^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	70.9% Very good	Lighting 82.3 Reflection 109 Parallax 102 67% 97.8 fps	MRender 94.4 Gravity 101 Splatting 93.3 78% 96.1 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Patriot Ignite 960GB-$462 185 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 731GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM02.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4084 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 22 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 1619 (AD) Unknown 100 100 262160 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 12 (C2) HDA temperature 98 98 128849018910 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4242	66.9% Good	Read 504 Write 431 Mixed 463 104% 466 MB/s	4K Read 21.1 4K Write 37.1 4K Mixed 10.9 66% 23 MB/s	DQ Read 20.7 DQ Write 39.6 DQ Mixed 10.4 14% 23.5 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 66.9% Great: 109%
Samsung 840 250GB-$251 41,998 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 233GB free Firmware: DXT06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 33577 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 184 (B1) Unknown 92 92 93 (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 71 57 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 1 1 786250 (EB) Unknown 99 99 123 (F1) Unknown 99 99 29942899605	27.2% Poor	Read 114 Write 79.7 Mixed 122 23% 105 MB/s	4K Read 5.08 4K Write 48.9 4K Mixed 8.8 45% 20.9 MB/s	DQ Read 105 DQ Write 96.5 DQ Mixed 8.25 32% 69.8 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 27.2% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 406GB free Firmware: CC3E Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 32203142 (03) Spinup time 95 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 81 81 19814 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 65 60 47283095208 (09) Power-on hours count 59 59 36592 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 37 2263 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 65538 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 69 51 605749279 (C2) HDA temperature 31 49 81604378655 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 24 16 32203142 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 7 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -85401129671266 (F1) Unknown 100 253 463017371 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1314912122	56.9% Above average	Read 97 Write 101 Mixed 99 75% 99.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.59 125% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 56.9% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 16GB 70,565 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	45.4% Average	MC Read 19.6 MC Write 13.5 MC Mixed 15.1 46% 16.1 GB/s	SC Read 9 SC Write 7.8 SC Mixed 12.8 28% 9.87 GB/s	Latency 67.2 60% 67.2 ns
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 45.4% Great: 54%

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Gaming 36%

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Desktop 68%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 29%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX - $200

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	119x
FX-8150AMD $770Bench 59%, 22,181 samples	75x
FX-8120AMDBench 56%, 25,690 samples	66x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	32x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	24x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	18x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	16x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	10x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	9x

RAM
16GBUnknownBench 41%, 70,565 samples	226x
8GBUnknownBench 34%, 82,857 samples	90x
32GBUnknownBench 53%, 5,781 samples	37x

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Value: 77% - Very good

Total price: $527

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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