Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2

Performance Results


Gaming 52% Yacht	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 43% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 91%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	54.6% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	118% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (34%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2 (all builds)
Memory	5.7 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150624
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 20 '17 at 15:45
Run Duration	161 Seconds
Run User	AUT-User
Background CPU	34%

PC Performing above expectations (72^nd 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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	91% Outstanding	Memory 94.9 1-Core 132 2-Core 254 90% 160 Pts	4-Core 479 8-Core 626 70% 552 Pts	64-Core 645 40% 645 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 390-$325 82,117 User benchmarks, average bench 50% Sapphire(174B E324) CLim: 1010 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.1.1 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	54.6% Above average	Lighting 68 Reflection 60.9 Parallax 78.8 55% 69.2 fps	MRender 59.9 Gravity 53.9 Splatting 75.7 53% 63.1 fps
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 54.6% Great: 52%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 217GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 758 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 461 (B1) Unknown 99 99 17 (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 67 58 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 24 (EB) Unknown 99 99 126 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9096710008	118% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 487 Mixed 514 113% 504 MB/s	4K Read 29.3 4K Write 120 4K Mixed 46.8 168% 65.3 MB/s	DQ Read 380 DQ Write 345 DQ Mixed 171 181% 299 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 124%
Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB-$80 85,620 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2.5TB free Firmware: MX6OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 69 (03) Spinup time 186 186 34376647015 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 568 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 121 121 34 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3766 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 527 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1434 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1434 (C2) HDA temperature 176 176 180389412898 (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 200 200 0	100% Outstanding	Read 175 Write 175 Mixed 154 126% 168 MB/s	4K Read 0.18 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.14 49% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 107%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 860GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 64 234656874 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 74 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 110061 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 43 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 42 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 65 555286561 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 75 (C2) HDA temperature 33 19 81604378657 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 11 6 234656874 (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 -80010945757142 (F1) Unknown 100 253 193659407 (F2) Unknown 100 253 40997467	90.8% Outstanding	Read 162 Write 155 Mixed 134 113% 150 MB/s	4K Read 0.08 4K Write 0.21 4K Mixed 0.12 20% 0.14 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 90.8% Great: 113%
Seagate ST3640323AS 640GB-$134 2,758 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 596GB free Firmware: SD35 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 110602270 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7820 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 633376879 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 21140 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 16 (0C) Power cycle count 96 37 5053 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 95 85900722805 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 9314 (BE) vendor-specific 67 54 555417633 (C2) HDA temperature 33 46 51539607585 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 50 24 110602270 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	56% Above average	Read 94.3 Write 101 Mixed 89.8 71% 95 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.29 81% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 56% Great: 66%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x4GB 27,462 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1632 MHz Performing below potential (38^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	50.9% Above average	MC Read 19.5 MC Write 16.7 MC Mixed 15 49% 17.1 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 14.9 SC Mixed 16.5 44% 15.2 GB/s	Latency 57.5 70% 57.5 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 50.9% Great: 60%

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

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

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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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $831

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