Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1

Performance Results


Gaming 43% Speed boat	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 35% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: 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 96.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	36.5% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	71.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 (all builds)
Memory	18.9 GB free of 24 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	5760 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151027
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 27 '17 at 21:02
Run Duration	478 Seconds
Run User	TUR-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st 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, 4 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96.7% Outstanding	Memory 97.9 1-Core 140 2-Core 274 95% 170 Pts	4-Core 552 8-Core 553 74% 552 Pts	64-Core 554 34% 554 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 96.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 770-$279 116,895 User benchmarks, average bench 34% Asus(1043 8481) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1215 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 372.54 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	36.5% Below average	Lighting 44.6 Reflection 39.9 Parallax 52.4 36% 45.6 fps	MRender 52.2 Gravity 50 Splatting 36.8 37% 46.3 fps
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 36.5% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB-$210 25,365 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 296GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2249 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 246 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 74 57 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 14 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2511058705	124% Outstanding	Read 524 Write 501 Mixed 515 115% 514 MB/s	4K Read 38.4 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 51.8 184% 67.6 MB/s	DQ Read 372 DQ Write 336 DQ Mixed 171 178% 293 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 124% Great: 124%
Crucial BX100 1TB-$500 1,367 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 120GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 246 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 301 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 151 (A3) Unknown 100 100 48 (A4) Unknown 100 100 3396 (A5) Unknown 100 100 9 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 25 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 281 (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 1 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 43548 (F2) Unknown 100 100 138192 (F5) Unknown 100 100 54336	107% Outstanding	Read 523 Write 433 Mixed 468 106% 474 MB/s	4K Read 31 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 40.5 155% 59 MB/s	DQ Read 269 DQ Write 287 DQ Mixed 74.3 112% 210 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 108%
Corsair Force LS 240GB-$110 4,081 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 32GB free (System drive) Firmware: S8FM07.9 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2559 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 343 (A2) Unknown 100 100 16 (AA) Unknown 100 100 79 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 5308532 (AE) Unknown 100 100 41 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 41 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 30 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 509 (DA) Unknown 100 100 28 (E7) Temperature 100 100 97 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4871 (F2) Unknown 100 100 5597	71.7% Very good	Read 503 Write 308 Mixed 372 87% 394 MB/s	4K Read 20.3 4K Write 90.5 4K Mixed 9.09 90% 39.9 MB/s	DQ Read 126 DQ Write 204 DQ Mixed 24.8 58% 118 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 71.7% Great: 91%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 9GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2633 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 349 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 73 54 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 15 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6132487683	108% Outstanding	Read 521 Write 416 Mixed 428 101% 455 MB/s	4K Read 42.5 4K Write 93 4K Mixed 35.1 159% 56.9 MB/s	DQ Read 358 DQ Write 280 DQ Mixed 136 151% 258 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 133%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 815GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 138792152 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 474 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 34117992 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3484 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 467 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 75 51 437780505 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 46 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 12262 (C2) HDA temperature 25 49 73014444057 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 22587233012267 (F1) Unknown 100 253 56755799817 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1151551486124	99% Outstanding	Read 156 Write 189 Mixed 172 130% 172 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.18 83% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 99% Great: 113%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 317GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 157 157 59936 (03) Spinup time 253 166 1041 (04) Start/Stop count 51 51 49364 (05) Reallocated sector count 149 149 964 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 16052 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4355 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 495 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 147 147 160504 (C2) HDA temperature 127 93 23 (C4) Reallocation count 1 1 407 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 1 227 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 198 11 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 169 1 8310	41.6% Average	Read 71.5 Write 73.7 Mixed 3.92 36% 49.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 0.27 4K Mixed 0.09 40% 0.32 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 41.6% Great: 67%
WD My Passport 2TB 10,723 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 390GB free, PID 0748 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	25.9% Poor	Read 1.59 Write 85.5 Mixed 2.34 48% 29.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 2.25 4K Mixed 0.14 84% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 25.9% Great: 44%
Mass Storage Device 4GB 177 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 4GB free, PID 125c, Link Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	7.92% Terrible	Read 19.2 Write 9.22 Mixed 10.7 15% 13 MB/s	4K Read 3.59 4K Write 0.74 4K Mixed 0.61 59% 1.65 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.92% Great: 10%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown Dark-2400 0423 Dark-2400 0423 Dark-2400 0423 Dark-2400 24GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 2400, 2400, 2400, 2400 MHz 8192, 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	91.4% Outstanding	MC Read 32.9 MC Write 34.3 MC Mixed 29.8 92% 32.3 GB/s	SC Read 22.7 SC Write 25.7 SC Mixed 27.5 72% 25.3 GB/s	Latency 46.4 86% 46.4 ns
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 91.4% Great: 91%

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Gaming 43%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 - $272

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	415x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	85x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	58x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	77x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	60x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	49x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	37x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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