Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2

Performance Results


Gaming 125% UFO	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 106% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 91.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	136% 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	220% 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.

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

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2 (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151027
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 03 '18 at 15:53
Run Duration	189 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing above expectations (73^rd 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 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.4% Outstanding	Memory 97.3 1-Core 136 2-Core 278 95% 170 Pts	4-Core 460 8-Core 727 73% 593 Pts	64-Core 691 43% 691 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 91.4% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Zotac(19DA 1470) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 3132 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	136% Outstanding	Lighting 195 Reflection 200 Parallax 181 159% 192 fps	MRender 126 Gravity 184 Splatting 124 117% 145 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 136% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 830 Series 1TB 544GB free Firmware: M0CR060 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (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 14 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 184 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 45 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 53 201864445979 (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 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 2181837046 (F7) Unknown 100 100 68232048 (F8) Unknown 100 100 18954306 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4397 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	108% Outstanding	Read 486 Write 465 Mixed 485 107% 479 MB/s	4K Read 27.7 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 39.9 151% 58.9 MB/s	DQ Read 331 DQ Write 278 DQ Mixed 78.8 121% 229 MB/s

Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$190 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 414GB free Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6816 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1435 (B1) Unknown 99 99 32 (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 55 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 130 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13186846421	118% Outstanding	Read 523 Write 490 Mixed 515 114% 509 MB/s	4K Read 34.5 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 49.4 171% 63 MB/s	DQ Read 344 DQ Write 302 DQ Mixed 162 165% 269 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 124%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 272GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	220% Outstanding	Read 1,716 Write 1,093 Mixed 1,269 301% 1,359 MB/s	4K Read 40.5 4K Write 147 4K Mixed 57.7 213% 81.9 MB/s	DQ Read 493 DQ Write 356 DQ Mixed 208 214% 352 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 220% Great: 283%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2TB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 170 162 6500 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2550 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 16533 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2541 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 140 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 151 151 147123 (C2) HDA temperature 122 109 28 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	46.5% Average	Read 93.7 Write 68.6 Mixed 76.9 60% 79.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 0.35 4K Mixed 0.19 53% 0.39 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 46.5% Great: 67%
WD Blue SSHD 4TB (2015)-$65 1,900 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 305GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 239 232 5050 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1181 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 5978 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1181 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 115 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2917 (C2) HDA temperature 122 113 30 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	65.6% Good	Read 114 Write 115 Mixed 105 84% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.91 4K Mixed 0.18 74% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 65.6% Great: 83%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 20,216 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	84.1% Excellent	MC Read 30.8 MC Write 31.7 MC Mixed 26.3 85% 29.6 GB/s	SC Read 20.5 SC Write 25.3 SC Mixed 25.4 68% 23.7 GB/s	Latency 49 82% 49 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 84.1% Great: 86%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2 - $183

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	358x
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	105x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	54x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	37x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	53x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	35x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	32x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	53x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	21x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	20x

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Total price: $831

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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