Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 87.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	56.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151027
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 24 '18 at 12:26
Run Duration	155 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	21%

PC Performing above expectations (69^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	87.4% Excellent	Memory 97.6 1-Core 125 2-Core 234 88% 152 Pts	4-Core 417 8-Core 676 67% 546 Pts	64-Core 680 42% 680 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 70GB free (System drive) Firmware: 60AABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 212035913 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 -120989228720689 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1825 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 431 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 29 41 55837261853 (C2) HDA temperature 29 41 55837261853 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 212035913 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 212035913 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 212035913 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 93 93 47244640257 (E9) Unknown 0 0 14483 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11257 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11257 (F2) Unknown 0 0 21300 (F4) Unknown 98 98 6226007	56.8% Above average	Read 405 Write 119 Mixed 176 51% 234 MB/s	4K Read 21.5 4K Write 85 4K Mixed 15 97% 40.5 MB/s	DQ Read 88.7 DQ Write 145 DQ Mixed 32.4 48% 88.7 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 56.8% Great: 73%
Samsung HM641JI 640GB-$50 10,598 User benchmarks, average bench 37% 543GB free Firmware: 2AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 97 97 10014 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 89 87 3578 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 871 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 900 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 814 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 776 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 71 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 58 188979544087 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 65 65 2907 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 7 (C8) Write error rate 100 99 4469 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 814 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 15423	50.1% Above average	Read 87.7 Write 87.1 Mixed 71.7 62% 82.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 0.69 4K Mixed 0.16 45% 0.4 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 50.1% Great: 50%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 230GB free Firmware: 2BA30001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 88 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 90 87 3117 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5834 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 9532 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 130 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5864 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 5 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 62 201864314906 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 5357 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 130 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 146258	41.5% Average	Read 69.5 Write 74.8 Mixed 54.6 50% 66.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 1.68 4K Mixed 0.22 69% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 41.5% Great: 59%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 230GB free Firmware: CC49 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 81 43341304 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 356 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 20890663 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 442 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 333 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 4045 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 230 (BE) vendor-specific 65 60 588382243 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 116 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2116 (C2) HDA temperature 35 40 60129542179 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 98 72 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 98 72 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 133238475456902 (F1) Unknown 100 253 7233625150 (F2) Unknown 100 253 6354549959	77.8% Very good	Read 136 Write 135 Mixed 131 101% 134 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.34 100% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 112%

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 (95^th percentile)	85.1% Excellent	MC Read 30.8 MC Write 32.3 MC Mixed 27.2 86% 30.1 GB/s	SC Read 20 SC Write 23.6 SC Mixed 25.7 66% 23.1 GB/s	Latency 48 83% 48 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 85.1% Great: 85%

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Gaming 43%

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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	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 $140Bench 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 $515	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