Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (89th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 11 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 89.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	85.5% 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	105% 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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150624
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 06 '19 at 02:43
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing way above expectations (89^th 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 (99^th percentile)	89.6% Excellent	Memory 97.1 1-Core 97.1 2-Core 252 83% 149 Pts	4-Core 442 8-Core 647 68% 545 Pts	64-Core 657 41% 657 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 89.6% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX Titan X-$615 15,621 User benchmarks, average bench 75% Asus(1043 8539) CLim: 1527 MHz, MLim: 1952 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 419.17 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	85.5% Excellent	Lighting 108 Reflection 118 Parallax 116 88% 114 fps	MRender 97.9 Gravity 103 Splatting 94.8 80% 98.7 fps
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 85.5% Great: 83%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Plextor M6 Pro 256GB-$110 927 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 134GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.05 SusWrite @10s intervals: 404 393 423 344 414 443 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	105% Outstanding	Read 488 Write 432 Mixed 280 SusWrite 404 90% 401 MB/s	4K Read 25.9 4K Write 93.1 4K Mixed 42.3 143% 53.8 MB/s	DQ Read 382 DQ Write 339 DQ Mixed 223 205% 315 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 111%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$60 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2.5TB free Firmware: CC54 SusWrite @10s intervals: 149 148 150 150 149 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	84.8% Excellent	Read 146 Write 119 Mixed 70.5 SusWrite 149 89% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.7 138% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 84.8% Great: 96%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GB 11,630 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 2133 MHz clocked @ 2176 MHz Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	78% Very good	MC Read 27.7 MC Write 29.4 MC Mixed 24.5 78% 27.2 GB/s	SC Read 19.1 SC Write 24.9 SC Mixed 23.6 64% 22.5 GB/s	Latency 49.7 80% 49.7 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 79%

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

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Typical SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 Builds (Compare 681 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 43%

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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	416x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	85x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	59x

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	50x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	38x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 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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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $914

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16