Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX

Performance Results


Gaming 44% Speed boat	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 36% Jet ski


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 a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 69.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	60.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	66.7% 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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121016
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	Jan 03 '19 at 00:20
Run Duration	128 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	4%

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
AMD FX-9590-$298 26,109 User benchmarks, average bench 63% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	69.6% Good	Memory 91 1-Core 79 2-Core 155 66% 108 Pts	4-Core 262 8-Core 419 42% 340 Pts	64-Core 462 29% 462 Pts
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 69.6% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 290X-$549 37,353 User benchmarks, average bench 51% Gigabyte(1458 227C) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1090 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 18.12.2 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	60.1% Good	Lighting 74.5 Reflection 63.5 Parallax 89.7 61% 75.9 fps	MRender 64.2 Gravity 67 Splatting 80.7 59% 70.6 fps
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 60.1% Great: 55%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Agility 4 256GB-$90 1,416 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 61GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.5.2 SusWrite @10s intervals: 156 165 169 182 176 175 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	66.7% Good	Read 285 Write 184 Mixed 175 SusWrite 170 46% 204 MB/s	4K Read 20.3 4K Write 94.8 4K Mixed 27.6 116% 47.6 MB/s	DQ Read 243 DQ Write 190 DQ Mixed 201 154% 211 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 66.7% Great: 87%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 802GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 115 118 120 120 120 119 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	67.2% Good	Read 115 Write 101 Mixed 66 SusWrite 119 74% 100 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 1 188% 1.43 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 67.2% Great: 84%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 16GB 70,565 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	46.3% Average	MC Read 17.2 MC Write 15.9 MC Mixed 15.5 46% 16.2 GB/s	SC Read 10.6 SC Write 9.1 SC Mixed 13.4 32% 11 GB/s	Latency 65.8 61% 65.8 ns
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 46.3% Great: 54%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Typical SABERTOOTH 990FX Builds (Compare 422 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 36%

Jet ski

Desktop 68%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 29%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX - $200

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	119x
FX-8150AMD $770Bench 59%, 22,181 samples	75x
FX-8120AMDBench 56%, 25,690 samples	66x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	32x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	24x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	18x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	16x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	10x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	9x

RAM
16GBUnknownBench 41%, 70,565 samples	226x
8GBUnknownBench 34%, 82,857 samples	90x
32GBUnknownBench 53%, 5,781 samples	37x

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Value: 77% - Very good

Total price: $527

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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