Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 49% Yacht	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 40% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	64.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	14.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160504
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 18 '17 at 09:47
Run Duration	120 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.65 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	76.2% Very good	Memory 96.1 1-Core 81.9 2-Core 161 69% 113 Pts	4-Core 305 8-Core 504 49% 405 Pts	64-Core 506 31% 506 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 76.2% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Zotac(19DA 2368) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1468 MHz, MLim: 1761 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	64.5% Good	Lighting 82 Reflection 82.1 Parallax 74.9 67% 79.7 fps	MRender 80.9 Gravity 75.1 Splatting 66.5 60% 74.2 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 64.5% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD Blue 2.5" 500GB (2009)-$50 31,419 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 98GB free Firmware: 02.01A02 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 186 182 1666 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5823 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 12156 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5741 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 1 533 (BC) Unknown 100 94 85900656665 (BE) vendor-specific 71 40 488374301 (BF) G-sense error rate 1 1 955 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 606 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 1430303 (C2) HDA temperature 118 87 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	34.2% Below average	Read 59.6 Write 59.5 Mixed 59.1 45% 59.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.12 4K Mixed 0.29 69% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 34.2% Great: 43%
WD Blue 320GB (2007)-$80 108,153 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 81GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.03E01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 134 134 4283 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1255 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 21833 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1230 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 248 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1255 (C2) HDA temperature 104 97 39 (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 200 200 265 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	48.3% Average	Read 88.1 Write 80 Mixed 72 60% 80 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.39 89% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 48.3% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GB 7,967 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 2133 MHz clocked @ 1066 MHz Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	62.7% Good	MC Read 27.6 MC Write 18.4 MC Mixed 22.1 65% 22.7 GB/s	SC Read 13.8 SC Write 9.1 SC Mixed 14.5 36% 12.5 GB/s	Latency 53.5 75% 53.5 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 62.7% Great: 79%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 34%

Sail boat

Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 - $200

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	863x
FX-9590AMD $298Bench 63%, 26,109 samples	208x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	146x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	110x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	83x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	81x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	62x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	61x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	59x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	84x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	45x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	28x

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Value: 53% - Above average

Total price: $630

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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