Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1

Performance Results


Gaming 53% Yacht	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 45% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 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 88.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	55.7% 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	115% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 (all builds)
Memory	28.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150624
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 14 '18 at 16:27
Run Duration	353 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (80^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.5% Excellent	Memory 92.2 1-Core 131 2-Core 266 91% 163 Pts	4-Core 457 8-Core 693 71% 575 Pts	64-Core 645 40% 645 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 88.5% 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: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	55.7% Above average	Lighting 70.6 Reflection 70.5 Parallax 63.2 58% 68.1 fps	MRender 72.2 Gravity 65.6 Splatting 56.4 52% 64.7 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 55.7% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 680GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10464 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2153 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (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 73 53 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 124 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5248472276	111% Outstanding	Read 528 Write 419 Mixed 428 102% 458 MB/s	4K Read 43 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 36 166% 60.6 MB/s	DQ Read 369 DQ Write 272 DQ Mixed 114 141% 252 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 133%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$115 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 169GB free Firmware: EXM03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1877 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 356 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 63 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 8 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2161997151	120% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 505 Mixed 510 114% 511 MB/s	4K Read 44.8 4K Write 131 4K Mixed 49.7 201% 75 MB/s	DQ Read 46.4 DQ Write 287 DQ Mixed 121 107% 152 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 124%
Intel X25-M 120GB 1,606 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 110GB free Firmware: 2CV102M3 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th 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 8860 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 5287 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 325 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 427662 (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	43.8% Average	Read 239 Write 116 Mixed 159 38% 172 MB/s	4K Read 22.8 4K Write 65.1 4K Mixed 6.81 78% 31.6 MB/s	DQ Read 154 DQ Write 87.5 DQ Mixed 42.6 53% 94.7 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 43.8% Great: 46%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 85GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10249 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2112 (B1) Unknown 96 96 68 (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 65 50 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 92 (F1) Unknown 99 99 28131168803	115% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 409 Mixed 420 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 47.9 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 44.4 185% 65.7 MB/s	DQ Read 350 DQ Write 244 DQ Mixed 37.3 98% 211 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 124%
SanDisk Extreme 120GB-$160 11,787 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 14GB free Firmware: R201 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 104 104 7374767 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -37477884606639 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3434 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 1 (AE) Unknown 0 0 254 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 25 45 68722425881 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 7374767 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 7374767 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 7374767 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 5516 (EA) Unknown 0 0 5146 (F1) Unknown 0 0 5146 (F2) Unknown 0 0 21237	68.4% Good	Read 460 Write 105 Mixed 179 54% 248 MB/s	4K Read 36.1 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 19.8 140% 56.2 MB/s	DQ Read 29.5 DQ Write 117 DQ Mixed 34.8 38% 60.4 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 68.4% Great: 81%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 623GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 185 176 5741 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4300 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10935 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2333 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 138 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 187 187 41998 (C2) HDA temperature 123 108 27 (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	74.4% Very good	Read 131 Write 128 Mixed 124 96% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 2.16 4K Mixed 0.18 85% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 74.4% Great: 83%
Lexar QD-G128 131GB 24 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 119GB free, PID 087c Operating at USB 3.1 Speed Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	62.5% Good	Read 247 Write 76 Mixed 129 164% 151 MB/s	4K Read 17.2 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 1.97 199% 7.04 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 62.5% Great: 90%
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)	7.42% Terrible	Read 25.1 Write 9.81 Mixed 6.8 14% 13.9 MB/s	4K Read 6.89 4K Write 0.007 4K Mixed 0.009 26% 2.3 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.42% 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 1600 MHz clocked @ 1800 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	66.6% Good	MC Read 24.7 MC Write 24.8 MC Mixed 19.5 66% 23 GB/s	SC Read 18.3 SC Write 23.3 SC Mixed 21.8 60% 21.1 GB/s	Latency 63.7 63% 63.7 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 66.6% 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 $130Bench 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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $15	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