Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1

Performance Results


Gaming 52% Yacht	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 45% Speed boat


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 87.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	55.8% 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	103% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 (all builds)
Memory	23.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150624
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 01 '17 at 20:20
Run Duration	329 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

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 (98^th percentile)	87.6% Excellent	Memory 93.4 1-Core 129 2-Core 257 90% 160 Pts	4-Core 442 8-Core 674 69% 558 Pts	64-Core 682 42% 682 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 87.6% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% MSI(1462 3160) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	55.8% Above average	Lighting 70.2 Reflection 70.1 Parallax 62.6 57% 67.6 fps	MRender 72.3 Gravity 65.1 Splatting 59.3 53% 65.6 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 55.8% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 821GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8587 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1800 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 60 53 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 117 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4897307078	107% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 409 Mixed 419 100% 447 MB/s	4K Read 43.1 4K Write 96 4K Mixed 33.7 159% 57.6 MB/s	DQ Read 358 DQ Write 268 DQ Mixed 96.2 131% 241 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 133%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$115 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 190GB free Firmware: EXM03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 69 66 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 314869031	79.8% Very good	Read 372 Write 349 Mixed 362 81% 361 MB/s	4K Read 33 4K Write 67.8 4K Mixed 29.6 124% 43.5 MB/s	DQ Read 202 DQ Write 72.3 DQ Mixed 23 47% 99.2 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 79.8% Great: 124%
Intel X25-M 120GB 1,606 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 111GB free Firmware: 2CV102M3 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8859 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4934 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 317 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 426312 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 65535 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 97 97 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0	42.9% Average	Read 256 Write 108 Mixed 149 38% 171 MB/s	4K Read 21.9 4K Write 62.9 4K Mixed 6.73 75% 30.5 MB/s	DQ Read 161 DQ Write 65.7 DQ Mixed 44.5 51% 90.4 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 42.9% Great: 46%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 46GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8372 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1759 (B1) Unknown 97 97 47 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 59 50 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 85 (F1) Unknown 99 99 20249691235	103% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 411 Mixed 414 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 46.6 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 27.8 160% 58.6 MB/s	DQ Read 360 DQ Write 108 DQ Mixed 27.3 74% 165 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 124%
SanDisk Extreme 120GB-$160 11,787 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 35GB free Firmware: R201 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 115 106687931 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 163208773629 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3080 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 1 (AE) Unknown 0 0 245 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 45 68722425886 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 106687931 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 106687931 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 106687931 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 5314 (EA) Unknown 0 0 4985 (F1) Unknown 0 0 4985 (F2) Unknown 0 0 20735	71.4% Very good	Read 499 Write 123 Mixed 186 58% 269 MB/s	4K Read 31.8 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 16.6 129% 53.6 MB/s	DQ Read 189 DQ Write 128 DQ Mixed 40.3 62% 119 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 71.4% Great: 81%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 84GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 179 176 6016 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3948 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 9062 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1981 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 131 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 188 188 37344 (C2) HDA temperature 120 108 30 (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 2 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	83.8% Excellent	Read 160 Write 132 Mixed 126 105% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.95 4K Mixed 0.26 91% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 83.8% Great: 83%
USB Flash Disk 4GB 2,580 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 3GB free, PID 1000 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	7.31% Terrible	Read 25 Write 9.64 Mixed 9.09 16% 14.6 MB/s	4K Read 6.61 4K Write 0.007 4K Mixed 0.006 25% 2.21 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.31% Great: 9%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 1600 C9 4x8GB 2,577 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	60.8% Good	MC Read 20.7 MC Write 22.4 MC Mixed 19 59% 20.7 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 22.6 SC Mixed 19.9 56% 19.5 GB/s	Latency 61.2 65% 61.2 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 60.8% Great: 75%

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Desktop 85%

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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 $129Bench 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 $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $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