Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2

Performance Results


Gaming 13% Tree trunk	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 12% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 79.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	9.35% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	64.5% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (48%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2 (all builds)
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150624
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Dec 29 '16 at 21:07
Run Duration	290 Seconds
Run User	BLR-User
Background CPU	48%

PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	79.6% Very good	Memory 91 1-Core 108 2-Core 199 77% 133 Pts	4-Core 373 8-Core 503 56% 438 Pts	64-Core 587 36% 587 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 79.6% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 25,436 User benchmarks, average bench 7% Device(0000 0000) 1GB CLim: 880 MHz, MLim: 975 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 355.82 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	9.35% Terrible	Lighting 10.9 Reflection 12.7 Parallax 9.09 9% 10.9 fps	MRender 14.4 Gravity 11.5 Splatting 12.1 10% 12.7 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 9.35% Great: 8%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 51GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 108 18695593 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 55456617738222 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1958 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 611 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 18695593 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 18695593 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 18695593 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 14656 (EA) Unknown 0 0 13538 (F1) Unknown 0 0 13538 (F2) Unknown 0 0 24506	64.5% Good	Read 452 Write 112 Mixed 161 52% 242 MB/s	4K Read 33.1 4K Write 90.1 4K Mixed 18.6 122% 47.3 MB/s	DQ Read 91.5 DQ Write 103 DQ Mixed 39.8 46% 78.1 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 64.5% Great: 82%
WD Se 2TB (2013)-$39 2,177 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 502GB free Firmware: 01.01A02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 170 168 6475 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 108 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 564 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 108 (10) Unknown 2 198 46163940083 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 107 (C2) HDA temperature 112 103 38 (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	61.6% Good	Read 107 Write 107 Mixed 89.8 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 3.12 4K Mixed 0.27 122% 1.4 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 61.6% Great: 93%
Adaptec Array 3TB 59 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 243GB free Firmware: V1.0 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	86.9% Excellent	Read 203 Write 101 Mixed 114 104% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 0.28 4K Mixed 0.15 56% 0.41 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 90%
JetFlash TS1GJF150 1GB 0GB free, PID null, Transcend JF 150 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	6.54% Terrible	Read 16.6 Write 7.57 Mixed 4.86 10% 9.68 MB/s	4K Read 8.02 4K Write 0.19 4K Mixed 0.18 42% 2.8 MB/s

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-054.A00LF 2x8GB 9,823 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	57.7% Above average	MC Read 21 MC Write 20.9 MC Mixed 17.2 56% 19.7 GB/s	SC Read 15.6 SC Write 20.7 SC Mixed 18.9 53% 18.4 GB/s	Latency 65.7 61% 65.7 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 57.7% Great: 61%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

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Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2 - $183

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	359x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	104x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	103x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	105x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	54x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	38x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	53x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	35x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	32x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	53x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	21x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	20x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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) $37	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