Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1

Performance Results


Gaming 95% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 81% Aircraft carrier


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 95.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	96.2% 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	108% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 (all builds)
Memory	11.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151027
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Jun 25 '16 at 19:31
Run Duration	318 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	0%

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 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.2% Outstanding	Memory 97.9 1-Core 144 2-Core 280 97% 174 Pts	4-Core 498 8-Core 745 77% 622 Pts	64-Core 751 46% 751 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 95.2% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Nvidia(10DE 1151) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6839 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96.2% Outstanding	Lighting 125 Reflection 126 Parallax 113 102% 121 fps	MRender 106 Gravity 109 Splatting 99.7 85% 105 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 96.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 750 Series NVMe PCIe 400GB-$550 8,641 User benchmarks, average bench 186% 212GB free Firmware: 0171 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	239% Outstanding	Read 2,066 Write 940 Mixed 1,311 317% 1,439 MB/s	4K Read 44.4 4K Write 255 4K Mixed 48.3 264% 116 MB/s	DQ Read 630 DQ Write 308 DQ Mixed 84.4 165% 341 MB/s
Poor: 123% ↑ This bench: 239% Great: 230%
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 79GB free Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 6508 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 883 (A5) Unknown 100 100 103111262616 (A6) Unknown 100 100 4 (A7) Unknown 100 100 47 (A8) Unknown 100 100 26 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 9 (AE) Unknown 100 100 377 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 60 50 214749806632 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1503260574046 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2045 (EA) Unknown 100 100 4129 (F1) Unknown 253 253 3909 (F2) Unknown 253 253 5049 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	79.6% Very good	Read 467 Write 334 Mixed 325 83% 376 MB/s	4K Read 36.3 4K Write 89.7 4K Mixed 20.7 129% 48.9 MB/s	DQ Read 37.1 DQ Write 95.7 DQ Mixed 15.2 26% 49.3 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 79.6% Great: 101%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 57GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7999 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 285 (B1) Unknown 99 99 14 (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 58 50 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 80 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8693523769	108% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 415 Mixed 419 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 46.1 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 49.4 192% 68.8 MB/s	DQ Read 47.7 DQ Write 117 DQ Mixed 27.8 37% 64.2 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$75 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2.5TB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 156459608 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 380 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 19141913 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 11335 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 384 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 94 393223 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 61 51 723583015 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 115 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 80 80 40972 (C2) HDA temperature 39 49 73014444071 (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 103444287331504 (F1) Unknown 100 253 17984901493 (F2) Unknown 100 253 57792726248	98.4% Outstanding	Read 178 Write 165 Mixed 166 128% 170 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 0.19 72% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 98.4% Great: 113%
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 (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 67 (03) Spinup time 149 149 21490630925 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 610 (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 13730 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 566 (C0) Power-off retract count 67 67 40014 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 67 67 40014 (C2) HDA temperature 150 150 223339544616 (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	102% Outstanding	Read 186 Write 169 Mixed 170 132% 175 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 2.07 4K Mixed 0.17 85% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 108%
Intenso External USB 3.0 1TB 1,890 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 546GB free Firmware: 0101 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 86 86 4465 (04) Start/Stop count 83 83 18074 (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 8728 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 8 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 310 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 3 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 56 219044511780 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 469 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 8 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 88 88 125190	46.1% Average	Read 81.4 Write 79 Mixed 81.1 61% 80.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.29 80% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 46.1% Great: 74%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$59 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 495GB free Firmware: MX4OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 69 (03) Spinup time 159 159 25785925863 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 904 (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 98 98 15721 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 688 (C0) Power-off retract count 80 80 24197 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 80 80 24197 (C2) HDA temperature 153 153 201864708135 (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	82.1% Excellent	Read 158 Write 128 Mixed 151 110% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.2 85% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 82.1% Great: 108%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 62GB free Firmware: TB08 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 100 100 2 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 92 88 2680 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 9074 (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 3429 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2705 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 161 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 57 188978233381 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 3 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 4041 (DF) Load/unload retry count 97 97 3717 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 108291
Poor: 14% Great: 59%
ST975042 2AS 750GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 15% 10GB free, PID 0c31 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	15.9% Very poor	Read 36.5 Write 35.3 Mixed 35.2 46% 35.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 0.91 4K Mixed 0.17 38% 0.51 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 15.9% Great: 16%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 2400 C11 4x4GB 5,522 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	86.9% Excellent	MC Read 31.4 MC Write 32.6 MC Mixed 27.2 87% 30.4 GB/s	SC Read 21.1 SC Write 26.1 SC Mixed 27.7 71% 25 GB/s	Latency 46.4 86% 46.4 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 91%

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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	418x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	86x
Core i5-4690KIntel $55Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	60x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	77x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	60x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	51x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	38x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	31x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 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: 62% - Good

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $288	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16