Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2

Performance Results


Gaming 53% Yacht	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 78.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	67.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	46.7% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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.

High background CPU (28%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2 (all builds)
Memory	7.9 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140617
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 21 '17 at 11:16
Run Duration	260 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	28%

PC Performing as expected (58^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	78.3% Very good	Memory 84.8 1-Core 121 2-Core 237 83% 148 Pts	4-Core 387 8-Core 656 63% 522 Pts	64-Core 662 41% 662 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Gigabyte(1458 367C) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	67.1% Good	Lighting 86.6 Reflection 83.9 Parallax 75.2 71% 81.9 fps	MRender 80.6 Gravity 75.4 Splatting 68 60% 74.7 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 67.1% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 480GB-$250 15,510 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 55GB free Firmware: 608ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 11259664 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 114194590469729 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 864 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 176 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BD) vendor-specific 23 43 47247458327 (C2) HDA temperature 23 43 47247458327 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 11259664 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 11259664 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 11259664 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 94489280513 (E9) Unknown 0 0 6461 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3984 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3984 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5479 (F4) Unknown 100 100 1900552	64.6% Good	Read 489 Write 309 Mixed 266 78% 355 MB/s	4K Read 25.8 4K Write 19.4 4K Mixed 14.9 68% 20 MB/s	DQ Read 185 DQ Write 74.4 DQ Mixed 45.6 56% 102 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 64.6% Great: 65%
HyperX Fury 120GB-$160 11,403 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 10GB free (System drive) Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 17483267 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 127629248173787 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1658 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 374 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 28 49 47247851548 (C2) HDA temperature 28 49 47247851548 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 17483267 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 17483267 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 17483267 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 16999 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11735 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11735 (F2) Unknown 0 0 13162 (F4) Unknown 96 96 7929977	46.7% Average	Read 349 Write 101 Mixed 114 41% 188 MB/s	4K Read 14.6 4K Write 76 4K Mixed 11.5 77% 34 MB/s	DQ Read 77.1 DQ Write 113 DQ Mixed 19.1 36% 69.8 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 46.7% Great: 75%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$45 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 525GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 32913968 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1492 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 25038430 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4316 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1055 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 50 521797661 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 97 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5720 (C2) HDA temperature 29 50 47244640285 (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 -30975304133898 (F1) Unknown 100 253 17837180968 (F2) Unknown 100 253 285721146177	90.9% Outstanding	Read 145 Write 171 Mixed 122 109% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 5.21 4K Mixed 0.78 210% 2.21 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 90.9% Great: 112%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 92GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 171 166 4425 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2508 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3459 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2220 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 142 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 13673 (C2) HDA temperature 118 101 29 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	67.1% Good	Read 120 Write 114 Mixed 93.1 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.94 4K Mixed 0.16 71% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 67.1% Great: 84%
Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 16GB 901 User benchmarks, average bench 15% 14GB free, PID 6545 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	20.3% Poor	Read 107 Write 8.17 Mixed 22.8 40% 45.9 MB/s	4K Read 13 4K Write 0.01 4K Mixed 0.008 49% 4.33 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 20.3% Great: 24%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 3x4GB 1,128 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 3 of 4 slots used 12GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (38^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	36.2% Below average	MC Read 12.3 MC Write 12.6 MC Mixed 10.8 34% 11.9 GB/s	SC Read 9.9 SC Write 12.2 SC Mixed 10.9 31% 11 GB/s	Latency 72.1 56% 72.1 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 36.2% Great: 59%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2 - $183

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	364x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	104x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	103x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	106x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	54x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	39x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	53x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	35x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	32x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	54x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	21x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	20x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	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 $45	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) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16