Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2

Performance Results


Gaming 13% Tree trunk	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 82.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	9.08% 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	115% 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

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2 (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colori
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140617
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Oct 30 '17 at 07:18
Run Duration	135 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690-$51 73,695 User benchmarks, average bench 67% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	82.1% Excellent	Memory 88.6 1-Core 116 2-Core 224 81% 143 Pts	4-Core 438 8-Core 438 59% 438 Pts	64-Core 438 27% 438 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 82.1% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 650-$112 69,673 User benchmarks, average bench 8% Zotac(19DA 4294) 2GB CLim: 1058 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	9.08% Terrible	Lighting 10.2 Reflection 9.42 Parallax 11.9 8% 10.5 fps	MRender 13.6 Gravity 12.2 Splatting 13.1 11% 13 fps
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 9.08% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 272GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 361 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 308 (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 68 63 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 14 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2652665017	115% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 409 Mixed 420 99% 447 MB/s	4K Read 44.3 4K Write 95.6 4K Mixed 49.1 181% 63 MB/s	DQ Read 372 DQ Write 280 DQ Mixed 131 151% 261 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 111GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 626 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 543 (B1) Unknown 99 99 18 (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 60 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 19 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4908067985	105% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 409 Mixed 419 100% 447 MB/s	4K Read 44.7 4K Write 82.9 4K Mixed 44.5 169% 57.4 MB/s	DQ Read 249 DQ Write 77.5 DQ Mixed 124 102% 150 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 115%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$64 143,477 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 491GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 134 133 4275 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 546 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 618 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 538 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 48 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7144 (C2) HDA temperature 116 109 27 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	77.2% Very good	Read 143 Write 125 Mixed 121 98% 130 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.16 4K Mixed 0.19 91% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 77.2% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 4x4GB 70 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (45^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	53.8% Above average	MC Read 18.8 MC Write 19.4 MC Mixed 16.5 52% 18.2 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 19.9 SC Mixed 17.1 50% 17.5 GB/s	Latency 68.9 58% 68.9 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 53.8% Great: 63%

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

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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	363x
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	106x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	54x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	39x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	53x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	35x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	32x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	54x
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 $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) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16