Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 63% Destroyer	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 70.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	88.9% 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	41.1% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140408
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Aug 01 '17 at 22:59
Run Duration	328 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing as expected (54^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 4.35 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	70.3% Very good	Memory 93.1 1-Core 74.6 2-Core 140 64% 103 Pts	4-Core 258 8-Core 412 41% 335 Pts	64-Core 415 26% 415 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 70.3% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 1996) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1606 MHz, MLim: 1902 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.9% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 120 Parallax 108 92% 114 fps	MRender 100 Gravity 106 Splatting 96.9 82% 101 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.9% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 126GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 15980 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 5336 (B1) Unknown 95 95 50 (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 74 58 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 193 (F1) Unknown 99 99 28208387077	72.5% Very good	Read 482 Write 322 Mixed 338 84% 381 MB/s	4K Read 32 4K Write 41.7 4K Mixed 19.7 96% 31.1 MB/s	DQ Read 132 DQ Write 94.8 DQ Mixed 47 53% 91.3 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 118%
Samsung 840 250GB-$251 41,998 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 47GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXT09B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 19972 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 6279 (B1) Unknown 91 91 105 (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 72 54 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 2 2 98484 (EB) Unknown 99 99 298 (F1) Unknown 99 99 30995705441	41.1% Average	Read 347 Write 65.1 Mixed 86 36% 166 MB/s	4K Read 21.6 4K Write 52.1 4K Mixed 10.7 74% 28.1 MB/s	DQ Read 22.5 DQ Write 62.7 DQ Mixed 27.5 25% 37.5 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 41.1% Great: 85%
WD WD7500AACS-00D6B0 750GB 4,630 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 545GB free Firmware: 01.01B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 130 (03) Spinup time 137 40 8116 (04) Start/Stop count 85 85 15217 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 43 43 41662 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5630 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 361 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 104 104 290468 (C2) HDA temperature 128 94 22 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 14 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 2	39.4% Below average	Read 72 Write 64.7 Mixed 65.1 51% 67.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 2.18 4K Mixed 0.28 97% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 39.4% Great: 46%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 391GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 170 2308 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10241 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 14442 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5301 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 179 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 10061 (C2) HDA temperature 121 103 22 (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	88.8% Excellent	Read 165 Write 144 Mixed 141 113% 150 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 2.47 4K Mixed 0.35 120% 1.22 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 88.8% Great: 108%
WD WD2500KS-00MJB0 250GB-$78 8,440 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 111GB free Firmware: 02.01C03 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 187 184 5625 (04) Start/Stop count 82 82 18202 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 14 14 62919 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5787 (BE) vendor-specific 69 14 31 (C2) HDA temperature 119 64 31 (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 200 143 591 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	31.5% Below average	Read 54.8 Write 54.6 Mixed 50.8 40% 53.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.63 4K Mixed 0.33 90% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 31.5% Great: 35%
Seagate BUP BK 4TB 970 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 3.5TB free, PID ab28 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	61% Good	Read 113 Write 112 Mixed 58.7 116% 94.4 MB/s	4K Read 1.37 4K Write 6.52 4K Mixed 0.56 246% 2.81 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 61% Great: 57%
WD My Passport 2TB 10,723 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 993GB free, PID 0748 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	16.8% Very poor	Read 30.3 Write 29.6 Mixed 26.8 37% 28.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.2 73% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 16.8% Great: 44%
WD 15EADS External 1.5TB 1,396 User benchmarks, average bench 16% 51GB free, PID 1003 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	15.2% Very poor	Read 29.6 Write 27.2 Mixed 15.7 30% 24.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.15 61% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 15.2% Great: 21%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 10,124 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (29^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	47.8% Average	MC Read 18.5 MC Write 14.9 MC Mixed 17 48% 16.8 GB/s	SC Read 10.3 SC Write 8.9 SC Mixed 13.2 31% 10.8 GB/s	Latency 61.8 65% 61.8 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 47.8% Great: 62%

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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