Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 74.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	97.1% 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	86.6% 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	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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	14.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160504
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 14 '18 at 01:44
Run Duration	152 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-9590-$298 26,109 User benchmarks, average bench 63% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.8 GHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	74.2% Very good	Memory 95.1 1-Core 84.1 2-Core 164 69% 114 Pts	4-Core 289 8-Core 473 47% 381 Pts	64-Core 514 32% 514 Pts
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 74.2% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4998) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1653 MHz, MLim: 1915 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	97.1% Outstanding	Lighting 125 Reflection 129 Parallax 118 102% 124 fps	MRender 108 Gravity 113 Splatting 104 89% 109 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 97.1% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 383GB free Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 379 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 265 (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 67 56 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 94 (F1) Unknown 99 99 830691175	103% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 397 Mixed 417 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 40.5 4K Write 75.9 4K Mixed 43.1 157% 53.2 MB/s	DQ Read 256 DQ Write 200 DQ Mixed 104 111% 187 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 134%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 187GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10551 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 4659 (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 66 51 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 8 (EB) Unknown 99 99 2081 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23862025102	86.6% Excellent	Read 505 Write 331 Mixed 348 87% 394 MB/s	4K Read 39.5 4K Write 61.1 4K Mixed 24.9 124% 41.8 MB/s	DQ Read 258 DQ Write 170 DQ Mixed 71.9 92% 167 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 86.6% Great: 118%
WD VelociRaptor 2.5" 1TB-$52 1,134 User benchmarks, average bench 100% 871GB free Firmware: 04.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 2 (03) Spinup time 201 199 2933 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1353 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10270 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1207 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 442 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 941 (C2) HDA temperature 124 111 26 (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
Poor: 66% Great: 120%
WD VelociRaptor 500GB-$62 8,133 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 82GB free Firmware: 04.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 175 2100 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5667 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 14823 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5456 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1614 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4052 (C2) HDA temperature 121 97 26 (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	99.4% Outstanding	Read 206 Write 140 Mixed 127 118% 158 MB/s	4K Read 1.14 4K Write 4.17 4K Mixed 0.38 167% 1.9 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 99.4% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 1866 C8 2x8GB 946 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1866 MHz clocked @ 933 MHz Performing below potential (8^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	35.2% Below average	MC Read 12.1 MC Write 11.2 MC Mixed 10.4 32% 11.2 GB/s	SC Read 11.6 SC Write 6.6 SC Mixed 10.7 28% 9.63 GB/s	Latency 56.7 71% 56.7 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 35.2% Great: 74%

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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 $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