Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1

Performance Results


Gaming 54% Yacht	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 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 91.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	55% 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	108% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 (all builds)
Memory	27.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150624
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 14 '18 at 13:52
Run Duration	349 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (81^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, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.5% Outstanding	Memory 95.2 1-Core 132 2-Core 269 92% 165 Pts	4-Core 473 8-Core 721 74% 597 Pts	64-Core 730 45% 730 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 91.5% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% MSI(1462 3160) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	55% Above average	Lighting 69.4 Reflection 70.2 Parallax 63.2 57% 67.6 fps	MRender 72.2 Gravity 65.5 Splatting 56.3 52% 64.7 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 55% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 680GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10461 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2151 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (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 71 53 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 122 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5223617306	101% Outstanding	Read 520 Write 414 Mixed 429 101% 454 MB/s	4K Read 44.4 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 33.5 164% 60 MB/s	DQ Read 44.1 DQ Write 220 DQ Mixed 122 97% 129 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 133%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 169GB free Firmware: EXM03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1875 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 353 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 72 63 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 5 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2136902337	128% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 502 Mixed 502 113% 507 MB/s	4K Read 44.9 4K Write 134 4K Mixed 52.6 206% 77 MB/s	DQ Read 329 DQ Write 296 DQ Mixed 32.5 101% 219 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 128% Great: 124%
Intel X25-M 120GB 1,606 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 110GB free Firmware: 2CV102M3 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8860 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 5285 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 323 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 427543 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 65535 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 97 97 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0	44.2% Average	Read 245 Write 116 Mixed 152 38% 171 MB/s	4K Read 23 4K Write 65.4 4K Mixed 6.99 78% 31.8 MB/s	DQ Read 152 DQ Write 88.3 DQ Mixed 42 52% 94.2 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 44.2% Great: 46%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 85GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10247 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2110 (B1) Unknown 96 96 68 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 50 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 90 (F1) Unknown 99 99 28096716855	108% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 414 Mixed 422 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 47.7 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 43.7 184% 65.5 MB/s	DQ Read 48.6 DQ Write 221 DQ Mixed 95.7 85% 122 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 124%
SanDisk Extreme 120GB-$160 11,787 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 14GB free Firmware: R201 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4421692 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -13185549580465 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3431 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 1 (AE) Unknown 0 0 251 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 24 45 68722425880 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4421692 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4421692 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4421692 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 5508 (EA) Unknown 0 0 5140 (F1) Unknown 0 0 5140 (F2) Unknown 0 0 21232	76.5% Very good	Read 510 Write 130 Mixed 178 59% 273 MB/s	4K Read 38.4 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 18.4 143% 57.8 MB/s	DQ Read 198 DQ Write 124 DQ Mixed 40.1 62% 121 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 76.5% Great: 81%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 623GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 176 5916 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4298 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10933 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2331 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 136 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 187 187 41966 (C2) HDA temperature 123 108 27 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	82.3% Excellent	Read 153 Write 134 Mixed 124 103% 137 MB/s	4K Read 0.91 4K Write 1.99 4K Mixed 0.24 101% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 83%
Lexar QD-G128 131GB 24 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 119GB free, PID 087c Operating at USB 3.1 Speed Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	61.2% Good	Read 246 Write 70.1 Mixed 119 156% 145 MB/s	4K Read 17.2 4K Write 2.01 4K Mixed 1.99 200% 7.08 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 61.2% Great: 90%
USB Flash Disk 4GB 2,580 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 3GB free, PID 1000 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	7.24% Terrible	Read 24.6 Write 9.23 Mixed 12.8 17% 15.5 MB/s	4K Read 6.92 4K Write 0.007 4K Mixed 0.007 26% 2.31 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.24% Great: 9%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 1600 C9 4x8GB 2,577 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1632 MHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	63.8% Good	MC Read 22.5 MC Write 22.6 MC Mixed 19.4 61% 21.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 21.3 60% 21.1 GB/s	Latency 56.5 71% 56.5 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 63.8% Great: 75%

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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	416x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	85x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	59x

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 $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	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 $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16