Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1

Performance Results


Gaming 51% Yacht	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 44% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	55.7% 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	96.7% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). 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.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 (all builds)
Memory	28.1 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 16:03
Run Duration	347 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing above expectations (77^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	86.6% Excellent	Memory 91.6 1-Core 129 2-Core 227 86% 149 Pts	4-Core 440 8-Core 670 69% 555 Pts	64-Core 694 43% 694 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 86.6% 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)	55.7% Above average	Lighting 70.6 Reflection 70.4 Parallax 63.3 58% 68.1 fps	MRender 72 Gravity 65.6 Splatting 56.6 52% 64.7 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 55.7% 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 as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10463 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2153 (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 72 53 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 124 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5239952362	108% Outstanding	Read 525 Write 414 Mixed 426 101% 455 MB/s	4K Read 43.5 4K Write 100 4K Mixed 34.4 163% 59.3 MB/s	DQ Read 342 DQ Write 234 DQ Mixed 125 137% 234 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 108% 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 (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1877 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 356 (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 73 63 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 8 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2153824116	131% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 500 Mixed 498 113% 504 MB/s	4K Read 44.6 4K Write 132 4K Mixed 57.9 211% 78 MB/s	DQ Read 359 DQ Write 318 DQ Mixed 117 148% 265 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 131% 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 (94^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 5287 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 325 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 427604 (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	44.7% Average	Read 257 Write 116 Mixed 160 39% 178 MB/s	4K Read 22.7 4K Write 66.1 4K Mixed 6.96 78% 31.9 MB/s	DQ Read 164 DQ Write 81.9 DQ Mixed 44.3 54% 96.9 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 44.7% 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 below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10249 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2112 (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 65 50 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 92 (F1) Unknown 99 99 28121942433	96.7% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 410 Mixed 420 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 47.3 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 28.8 162% 59.1 MB/s	DQ Read 48.1 DQ Write 110 DQ Mixed 28.3 36% 62.1 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 96.7% 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 (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4136545 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 139139760539473 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3434 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 1 (AE) Unknown 0 0 254 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 25 45 68722425881 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4136545 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4136545 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4136545 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 5513 (EA) Unknown 0 0 5144 (F1) Unknown 0 0 5144 (F2) Unknown 0 0 21236	74.2% Very good	Read 513 Write 113 Mixed 200 60% 275 MB/s	4K Read 37.5 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 18 142% 57.4 MB/s	DQ Read 152 DQ Write 128 DQ Mixed 40.2 57% 107 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 74.2% 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 (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 185 176 5741 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4300 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10935 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2333 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 138 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 187 187 41989 (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	78.2% Very good	Read 134 Write 139 Mixed 123 99% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 2.21 4K Mixed 0.28 98% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 78.2% 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)	62% Good	Read 247 Write 73.9 Mixed 132 164% 151 MB/s	4K Read 17 4K Write 1.97 4K Mixed 1.97 197% 6.97 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 62% 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)	7.4% Terrible	Read 25.3 Write 9.56 Mixed 12.7 18% 15.9 MB/s	4K Read 6.92 4K Write 0.006 4K Mixed 0.008 26% 2.31 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.4% 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 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	58.3% Above average	MC Read 19.8 MC Write 21.2 MC Mixed 18.4 57% 19.8 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 21.5 SC Mixed 19.9 54% 18.9 GB/s	Latency 64.8 62% 64.8 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 58.3% Great: 75%

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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	415x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	85x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	58x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	77x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	60x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	49x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	37x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 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 $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 $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