Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (85th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 15 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 89.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	66.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 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

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Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151027
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 20 '18 at 16:43
Run Duration	172 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	12%

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PC Performing above expectations (85^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.5% Excellent	Memory 97.9 1-Core 132 2-Core 263 92% 164 Pts	4-Core 438 8-Core 675 69% 556 Pts	64-Core 688 43% 688 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 89.5% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 119D) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.77 Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Lighting 112 Reflection 113 Parallax 97 92% 108 fps	Gravity 100 Splatting 100 89% 100 fps
Poor: 71% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 71GB free (System drive) Firmware: 60AABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 46950066 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 -110552458190976 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1934 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 489 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 29 41 51542294557 (C2) HDA temperature 29 41 51542294557 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 46950066 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 46950066 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 46950066 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 94 94 47244640257 (E9) Unknown 0 0 15644 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11925 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11925 (F2) Unknown 0 0 22572 (F4) Unknown 97 97 6684764	66.9% Good	Read 508 Write 132 Mixed 165 58% 269 MB/s	4K Read 28.2 4K Write 92 4K Mixed 18.5 115% 46.2 MB/s	DQ Read 85.7 DQ Write 136 DQ Mixed 34.4 48% 85.5 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 66.9% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 930GB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 136266609 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2291 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 4423068049 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6681 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2291 (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 67 60 554827809 (C2) HDA temperature 33 40 60129542177 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 30 25 136266609 (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 -52913997073656 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2136406072 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4255051373	57.8% Above average	Read 108 Write 93.6 Mixed 109 78% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.34 4K Mixed 0.52 116% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 57.8% Great: 68%
Samsung HM641JI 640GB-$50 10,598 User benchmarks, average bench 37% 542GB free Firmware: 2AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 97 97 10707 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 89 87 3561 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 953 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1330 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 866 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 882 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 78 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 58 188979347478 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 65 65 2907 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 7 (C8) Write error rate 100 99 4469 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 866 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 18280	49.4% Average	Read 88.9 Write 83.6 Mixed 69.7 60% 80.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 0.67 4K Mixed 0.19 46% 0.39 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 49.4% Great: 50%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 305GB free Firmware: 2BA30001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 88 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 90 87 3125 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5921 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 9967 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 149 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5973 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 5 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 62 201864249370 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 5488 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 149 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 148651	50.3% Above average	Read 88.2 Write 87.1 Mixed 80.9 64% 85.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.97 4K Mixed 0.21 76% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 50.3% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 40,596 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	86.3% Excellent	MC Read 31.5 MC Write 32.4 MC Mixed 27.5 87% 30.5 GB/s	SC Read 20.7 SC Write 24 SC Mixed 26 67% 23.6 GB/s	Latency 46.7 86% 46.7 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 86.3% Great: 85%

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Gaming 43%

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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 $160Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	37x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 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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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $980

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 $46

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