Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2

Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 49% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 94.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	59.1% 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	62.2% 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 (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2 (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151027
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 25 '16 at 09:01
Run Duration	191 Seconds
Run User	HRV-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing above expectations (73^rd 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 (100^th percentile)	94.8% Outstanding	Memory 93.3 1-Core 136 2-Core 270 92% 166 Pts	4-Core 526 8-Core 705 78% 616 Pts	64-Core 712 44% 712 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 94.8% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 390X-$340 26,573 User benchmarks, average bench 54% Sapphire(174B E324) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 16.200.1025.0 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	59.1% Above average	Lighting 74.3 Reflection 64 Parallax 84.1 60% 74.1 fps	MRender 62.7 Gravity 59.8 Splatting 79.4 56% 67.3 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 59.1% Great: 57%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HyperX Fury 120GB-$160 11,403 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 85GB free (System drive) Firmware: 608ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 8597210703 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -97598836834177 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 59 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 31 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 36 46 94492295204 (C2) HDA temperature 36 46 94492295204 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 8597210703 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 8597210703 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 8597210703 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 38654705664 (E9) Unknown 0 0 317 (EA) Unknown 0 0 358 (F1) Unknown 0 0 358 (F2) Unknown 0 0 452 (F4) Unknown 100 100 655362	62.2% Good	Read 417 Write 123 Mixed 181 52% 240 MB/s	4K Read 26.1 4K Write 98.8 4K Mixed 16.3 113% 47.1 MB/s	DQ Read 106 DQ Write 137 DQ Mixed 35.7 51% 93.1 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 62.2% Great: 75%
Adata S511 120GB 604 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 85GB free Firmware: 3.3.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 90 90 4502932 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 -89094801561434 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3214 (AB) Unknown 0 0 2 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 288 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 2 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 36 51 68722819108 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4502932 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4502932 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4502932 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 25995 (EA) Unknown 0 0 19198 (F1) Unknown 0 0 19198 (F2) Unknown 0 0 30786	70.6% Very good	Read 491 Write 136 Mixed 198 60% 275 MB/s	4K Read 31.3 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 16.2 124% 50.9 MB/s	DQ Read 187 DQ Write 138 DQ Mixed 42.1 64% 122 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 70.6% Great: 81%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$59 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 1.5TB free Firmware: MX4OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 72 (03) Spinup time 131 131 17199792401 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1427 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 9163 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 948 (C0) Power-off retract count 96 96 5824 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 5824 (C2) HDA temperature 136 136 244814184492 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	96.1% Outstanding	Read 160 Write 175 Mixed 168 127% 168 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.86 4K Mixed 0.13 73% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 96.1% Great: 108%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$64 143,477 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 811GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 141 133 3916 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3160 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 20307 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1575 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1874 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 127 127 219515 (C2) HDA temperature 102 89 41 (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	66.2% Good	Read 97 Write 133 Mixed 102 83% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 2.63 4K Mixed 0.18 85% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 66.2% Great: 85%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$45 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 740GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 100 15731856 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 79 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 60 60 1055912 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 118 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 220 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 17 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 59 54 690487337 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 182 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 577 (C2) HDA temperature 41 46 68719476777 (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 89605902696641 (F1) Unknown 100 253 808040884 (F2) Unknown 100 253 5973283243	89.6% Excellent	Read 126 Write 186 Mixed 141 113% 151 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 5.37 4K Mixed 0.84 227% 2.34 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 89.6% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown R538G1601U2S-UO 2x8GB 27 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1632 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	59.9% Above average	MC Read 21.9 MC Write 21.4 MC Mixed 17.4 58% 20.2 GB/s	SC Read 15.3 SC Write 24 SC Mixed 20.3 57% 19.9 GB/s	Latency 61.5 65% 61.5 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 59.9% Great: 60%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2 - $183

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	365x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	105x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	103x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	106x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	54x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	39x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	53x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	35x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	32x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	55x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	21x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	20x

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Total price: $831

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $165	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $29

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16