Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1

Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 49% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	64.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	66.1% 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 (19%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151027
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 17 '18 at 20:51
Run Duration	296 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	19%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	85.3% Excellent	Memory 96.2 1-Core 117 2-Core 232 85% 148 Pts	4-Core 402 8-Core 606 63% 504 Pts	64-Core 601 37% 601 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 2983) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	64.3% Good	Lighting 80.9 Reflection 87 Parallax 84.2 66% 84 fps	MRender 80.9 Gravity 74.7 Splatting 71 61% 75.5 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 64.3% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Asustor iSCSI Storage 537GB 11 User benchmarks, average bench 21% 380GB free Firmware: 221 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	27.3% Poor	Read 112 Write 112 Mixed 112 25% 112 MB/s	4K Read 13.3 4K Write 13.6 4K Mixed 12.7 44% 13.2 MB/s	DQ Read 53.8 DQ Write 56.7 DQ Mixed 27.6 28% 46 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 27.3% Great: 27%
Corsair Force LE 480GB-$277 5,507 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 318GB free Firmware: SAFC12.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6540 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 113 (A2) Unknown 100 100 345 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 327698 (AE) Unknown 100 100 34 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 34 (C2) HDA temperature 98 98 128850984990 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 2828 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3060 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1292	81.9% Excellent	Read 513 Write 352 Mixed 351 90% 406 MB/s	4K Read 32.5 4K Write 69.7 4K Mixed 10.6 100% 37.6 MB/s	DQ Read 307 DQ Write 223 DQ Mixed 47.9 95% 193 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 100%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 68GB free Firmware: 600ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 23487089 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 8521215140837 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 257 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 116 (B1) Unknown 0 0 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 34 40 60132163618 (C2) HDA temperature 34 40 60132163618 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 23487089 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 23487089 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 23487089 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 10397 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2563 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2563 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5828 (F4) Unknown 98 98 196673603	59.6% Above average	Read 454 Write 110 Mixed 156 52% 240 MB/s	4K Read 24.4 4K Write 99.4 4K Mixed 13.6 107% 45.8 MB/s	DQ Read 66.5 DQ Write 114 DQ Mixed 30.1 40% 70.1 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 59.6% Great: 73%
Asustor iSCSI Storage 537GB 11 User benchmarks, average bench 21% 57GB free Firmware: 221 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	27.2% Poor	Read 107 Write 112 Mixed 115 25% 111 MB/s	4K Read 13 4K Write 13.7 4K Mixed 13.1 44% 13.2 MB/s	DQ Read 54.9 DQ Write 59.2 DQ Mixed 11.8 21% 41.9 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 27.2% Great: 27%
Corsair Force GS 128GB-$150 5,048 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 50GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.07 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 110 30180792 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 63 63 2164663549635 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 162 (B1) Unknown 0 0 7 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 37 43 60132360229 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 30180792 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 30180792 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 30180792 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 89 89 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 52263 (EA) Unknown 0 0 24331 (F1) Unknown 0 0 24331 (F2) Unknown 0 0 23163	66.1% Good	Read 404 Write 193 Mixed 210 59% 269 MB/s	4K Read 33.2 4K Write 93.5 4K Mixed 17 122% 47.9 MB/s	DQ Read 37 DQ Write 102 DQ Mixed 53.9 46% 64.3 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 86%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GB 18,444 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	68.2% Good	MC Read 23.8 MC Write 25.4 MC Mixed 21.3 67% 23.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 21.4 SC Mixed 21.8 57% 20.1 GB/s	Latency 53.3 75% 53.3 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 68.2% Great: 71%

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Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

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 $265Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	60x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	49x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 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 $269	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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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