Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1

Performance Results


Gaming 121% UFO	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 93% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	138% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	70.8% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 (all builds)
Memory	11.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1024 x 768 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150624
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 30 '17 at 20:25
Run Duration	198 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	87.2% Excellent	Memory 96.4 1-Core 120 2-Core 240 86% 152 Pts	4-Core 454 8-Core 439 60% 447 Pts	64-Core 457 28% 457 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 87.2% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6698) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.43 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	138% Outstanding	Lighting 195 Reflection 212 Parallax 189 159% 199 fps	MRender 135 Gravity 188 Splatting 138 125% 154 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 138% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata Premier SP550 480GB-$129 8,505 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 84GB free Firmware: O0803B5a Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th 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 100 100 369 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 832 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 176 (A3) Unknown 100 100 44 (A4) Unknown 100 100 45283 (A5) Unknown 100 100 61 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 23 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 98 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 28 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 47 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 250976 (F2) Unknown 100 100 494425 (F5) Unknown 100 100 362264	68.5% Good	Read 474 Write 253 Mixed 265 73% 331 MB/s	4K Read 27.3 4K Write 54.5 4K Mixed 22.4 99% 34.7 MB/s	DQ Read 28.4 DQ Write 163 DQ Mixed 39.9 47% 77.2 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 68.5% Great: 95%
OCZ ARC 100 120GB-$82 4,735 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 7GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.00 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 0 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 15079 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2696 (AB) Unknown 100 100 40727632 (AE) Unknown 100 100 78 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (D0) Spin buzz 100 100 762 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 75 75 75 (F1) Unknown 100 100 24163 (F2) Unknown 100 100 11638 (F9) Unknown 100 100 1838698731	70.8% Very good	Read 456 Write 284 Mixed 354 81% 365 MB/s	4K Read 29 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 11 114% 48.5 MB/s	DQ Read 27 DQ Write 115 DQ Mixed 11.3 26% 51.3 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 98%
WD My Passport 0730 1TB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 146GB free Firmware: 1015 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 164 160 4758 (04) Start/Stop count 87 87 13527 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 43 43 41853 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1669 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 477 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 77 77 371636 (C2) HDA temperature 123 102 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 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	24.5% Poor	Read 43.5 Write 41.6 Mixed 43.8 32% 43 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 1.28 4K Mixed 0.1 48% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 24.5% Great: 37%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 115GB free Firmware: KC44 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 72 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5605 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 473322263 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 30572 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3340 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 94 107375821230 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 55 588709923 (C2) HDA temperature 35 45 55834574883 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 34 25 72 (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 86736864573385 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3215994602 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2292254007	12.9% Very poor	Read 8.41 Write 34.6 Mixed 16.9 15% 20 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 5.37 4K Mixed 0.48 171% 2.1 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 12.9% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 40,596 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	86.8% Excellent	MC Read 31.8 MC Write 33.6 MC Mixed 28.8 90% 31.4 GB/s	SC Read 19.3 SC Write 21.7 SC Mixed 24.1 62% 21.7 GB/s	Latency 52.6 76% 52.6 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 86.8% Great: 85%

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Gaming 43%

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Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 - $272

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	418x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	86x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	60x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	77x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	60x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	50x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	38x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 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 $289	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $168	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16