Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0

Performance Results


Gaming 46% Yacht	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 39% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 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 68.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	64.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	79.1% 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.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	14 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1366 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140408
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Sep 11 '16 at 02:46
Run Duration	253 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (47^th 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 4.6 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	68.5% Good	Memory 84.5 1-Core 80.6 2-Core 154 64% 106 Pts	4-Core 285 8-Core 471 46% 378 Pts	64-Core 486 30% 486 Pts
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 68.5% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 2983) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6496 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	64.8% Good	Lighting 81.5 Reflection 88.3 Parallax 77.1 66% 82.3 fps	MRender 82.8 Gravity 75.4 Splatting 70.2 62% 76.1 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 64.8% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 101GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6215 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 434 (B1) Unknown 99 99 20 (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 57 46 43 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 156 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11041739328	79.1% Very good	Read 492 Write 379 Mixed 397 94% 423 MB/s	4K Read 36.2 4K Write 53.2 4K Mixed 20.3 109% 36.6 MB/s	DQ Read 36.8 DQ Write 152 DQ Mixed 19.9 37% 69.5 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 79.1% Great: 124%
WD Black 750GB (2008)-$140 11,698 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 569GB free Firmware: 05.00K05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 222 219 8900 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 660 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 44 44 40957 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 407 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 265 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 658 (C2) HDA temperature 107 97 43 (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	60.7% Good	Read 113 Write 98 Mixed 100 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 2.65 4K Mixed 0.34 122% 1.27 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 60.7% Great: 65%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 103GB free Firmware: 05.00K05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 221 218 8908 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6027 (05) Reallocated sector count 199 199 5 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 21 21 57978 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1359 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 860 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6023 (C2) HDA temperature 106 97 44 (C4) Reallocation count 199 199 1 (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	47.7% Average	Read 90.7 Write 75.2 Mixed 91.2 65% 85.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.95 4K Mixed 0.39 97% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 47.7% Great: 76%
PNY USB 3.0 FD 64GB 513 User benchmarks, average bench 22% 53GB free, PID 00ad Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	9.21% Terrible	Read 26.1 Write 11.9 Mixed 3.64 14% 13.9 MB/s	4K Read 3.2 4K Write 0.67 4K Mixed 0.18 41% 1.35 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 9.21% Great: 33%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 20,667 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz clocked @ 667 MHz Performing below potential (17^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	44.9% Average	MC Read 17.1 MC Write 15.6 MC Mixed 15 46% 15.9 GB/s	SC Read 9.9 SC Write 8.5 SC Mixed 12.8 30% 10.4 GB/s	Latency 72.7 55% 72.7 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 44.9% Great: 77%

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Typical SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 Builds (Compare 1,670 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 34%

Sail boat

Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 - $200

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	863x
FX-9590AMD $298Bench 63%, 26,109 samples	208x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	146x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	110x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	83x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	81x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	62x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	61x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	59x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	84x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	45x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	28x

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Value: 53% - Above average

Total price: $630

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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