Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK S

Performance Results


Gaming 93% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (95th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 5 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 96.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	93.2% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	134% 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	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.

Run History

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK S (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151027
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 11 '17 at 09:15
Run Duration	136 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96.7% Outstanding	Memory 98.7 1-Core 138 2-Core 272 95% 170 Pts	4-Core 510 8-Core 739 78% 625 Pts	64-Core 740 46% 740 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 96.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 119D) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.2% Outstanding	Lighting 120 Reflection 119 Parallax 100 98% 113 fps	MRender 97 Gravity 104 Splatting 104 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 93.2% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial_CT480M500SSD1 500GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 125% 383GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4956 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 419 (B1) Unknown 99 99 16 (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 68 52 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 4 (EB) Unknown 99 99 148 (F1) Unknown 99 99 25333874833	134% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 488 Mixed 502 112% 502 MB/s	4K Read 46.9 4K Write 126 4K Mixed 62.4 218% 78.4 MB/s	DQ Read 369 DQ Write 336 DQ Mixed 145 166% 283 MB/s
Poor: 104% ↑ This bench: 134% Great: 135%
Samsung 850 EVO 500GB 16 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 95GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2151 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 278528 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 14974 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 960 (AA) Unknown 100 100 33 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 20 (AE) Unknown 100 100 242 (B5) Unknown 100 100 4531197313974 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 695 (C2) HDA temperature 72 229 549748932636 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 4294967295 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 33 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	90.8% Outstanding	Read 501 Write 341 Mixed 371 90% 404 MB/s	4K Read 27.4 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 26.1 129% 51.6 MB/s	DQ Read 276 DQ Write 251 DQ Mixed 48.7 95% 192 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 90.8% Great: 101%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 1866 C8 2x8GB 946 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1867 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	88.3% Excellent	MC Read 32.3 MC Write 32.5 MC Mixed 27.5 88% 30.8 GB/s	SC Read 22.3 SC Write 25.8 SC Mixed 27.2 72% 25.1 GB/s	Latency 42.5 94% 42.5 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 88.3% Great: 74%

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Gaming 97%

Nuclear submarine

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 81%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK S

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	153x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	19x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	18x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	26x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	24x
GTX 980-TiNvidia $560Bench 79%, 214,030 samples	19x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	19x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	15x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	11x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	19x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	16x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	12x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $927

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16