Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2/USB 3.1

Performance Results


Gaming 112% UFO	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 75% Battleship


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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 93.4%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	132% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	103% 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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Run History

6 months ago, 6 months ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2/USB 3.1 (all builds)
Memory	14.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150817
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 16 '18 at 19:59
Run Duration	108 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Single core	Quad core	Multi core
Intel Core i7-4770K-$439 62,851 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	93.4% Outstanding	SC Int 132 SC Float 129 SC Mixed 132 105% 131 Pts	QC Int 446 QC Float 462 QC Mixed 457 103% 455 Pts	MC Int 654 MC Float 684 MC Mixed 687 101% 675 Pts
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 93.4% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$450 298,873 User benchmarks, average bench 125% Zotac(19DA 1426) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	132% Outstanding	Lighting 444 Reflection 384 Parallax 412 134% 413 fps	MRender 240 Gravity 409 Splatting 250 131% 300 fps
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 132% Great: 140%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$105 240,710 User benchmarks, average bench 114% 120GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1716 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1173 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (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 70 55 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 48 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7710488874	103% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 405 Mixed 402 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 40 4K Write 84 4K Mixed 36.4 152% 53.5 MB/s	DQ Read 280 DQ Write 230 DQ Mixed 97.9 116% 203 MB/s
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 134%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$58 249,573 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 136079128 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2700 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 17258000133 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 7943 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2608 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 76 43 2336866107416 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 267 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 62 62 77615 (C2) HDA temperature 24 57 51539607576 (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 -84675280235946 (F1) Unknown 100 253 41973783631 (F2) Unknown 100 253 49887970535	105% Outstanding	Read 184 Write 184 Mixed 175 136% 181 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.26 80% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 115%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 8,389 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	60.1% Good	MC Read 20.9 MC Write 21.9 MC Mixed 18.2 58% 20.3 GB/s	SC Read 15.7 SC Write 23 SC Mixed 20.4 56% 19.7 GB/s	Latency 61.9 65% 61.9 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 60.1% Great: 64%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds.

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Gaming 63%

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 59%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2/USB 3.1

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $365Bench 85%, 162,970 samples	128x
Core i5-4690KIntel $255Bench 79%, 83,343 samples	30x
Core i7-4770KIntel $439Bench 77%, 62,851 samples	21x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $195Bench 63%, 330,181 samples	57x
GTX 980 TiNvidia $550Bench 97%, 76,706 samples	28x
GTX 1070Nvidia $329Bench 99%, 367,574 samples	22x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $78Bench 106%, 296,153 samples	32x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $105Bench 114%, 240,710 samples	27x
850 Pro 256GBSamsung $163Bench 103%, 51,546 samples	16x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 60%, 36,473 samples	20x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 55%, 23,048 samples	13x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 50%, 7,550 samples	10x

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Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $638

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-8700K $370	Nvidia GTX 1070 $329	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $78
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 $155	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $225	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $105
Intel Core i7-7700K $355	AMD RX 480 $280	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $163

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $45	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $140	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $42
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $80	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $869	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $30
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $55	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $145	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $12