Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 69.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	107% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	74.9% 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.

Very high background CPU (31%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX (all builds)
Memory	14.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121016
Uptime	3 Days
Run Date	Nov 20 '16 at 23:14
Run Duration	127 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	31%

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PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.35 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	69.8% Good	Memory 90.6 1-Core 73.7 2-Core 141 63% 102 Pts	4-Core 266 8-Core 470 44% 368 Pts	64-Core 469 29% 469 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 69.8% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Device(0000 0000) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7586 Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Lighting 141 Reflection 149 Parallax 127 115% 139 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 137 Splatting 108 97% 120 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX200 500GB-$90 17,487 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 350GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 8 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1227 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 539 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 96 (B4) Unknown 0 0 5504 (B7) Unknown 100 100 508 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 81 59 176094183443 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 2287654283 (F7) Unknown 100 100 71573107 (F8) Unknown 100 100 40073261	74.9% Very good	Read 504 Write 381 Mixed 373 93% 419 MB/s	4K Read 27.6 4K Write 63.9 4K Mixed 15.3 95% 35.6 MB/s	DQ Read 28.3 DQ Write 142 DQ Mixed 15.1 32% 61.9 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 105%
OCZ Agility 3 240GB-$199 10,165 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 17GB free Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4289332 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 16 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 58772332483207 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 5 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 281 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 0 0 2005 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4289332 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 16 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4289332 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4289332 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4599 (EA) Unknown 0 0 4872 (F1) Unknown 0 0 4872 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7718	44.2% Average	Read 195 Write 198 Mixed 144 40% 179 MB/s	4K Read 20.9 4K Write 62.8 4K Mixed 10.1 78% 31.3 MB/s	DQ Read 22.9 DQ Write 66.4 DQ Mixed 9.32 17% 32.9 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 44.2% Great: 66%

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 (84^th percentile)	47.1% Average	MC Read 18.2 MC Write 15.2 MC Mixed 16.4 47% 16.6 GB/s	SC Read 10.3 SC Write 9.1 SC Mixed 13.4 31% 10.9 GB/s	Latency 66.4 60% 66.4 ns
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 47.1% Great: 54%

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Gaming 36%

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Desktop 68%

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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 $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	9x

RAM
16GBUnknownBench 41%, 70,565 samples	226x
8GBUnknownBench 34%, 82,857 samples	90x
32GBUnknownBench 53%, 5,781 samples	38x

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Value: 77% - Very good

Total price: $527

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 $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $64	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16