Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2

Performance Results


Gaming 37% Jet ski	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 33% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 85.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	35.1% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	113% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2 (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150624
Uptime	1.2 Days
Run Date	May 16 '18 at 03:56
Run Duration	139 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (61^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	85.7% Excellent	Memory 97 1-Core 123 2-Core 243 88% 155 Pts	4-Core 402 8-Core 660 65% 531 Pts	64-Core 660 41% 660 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 85.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Asus(1043 8508) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1799 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 397.64 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	35.1% Below average	Lighting 37.4 Reflection 62.2 Parallax 49.3 30% 49.6 fps	MRender 70.8 Gravity 40.7 Splatting 51.8 44% 54.4 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 35.1% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 128GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6841 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2433 (B1) Unknown 97 97 49 (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 68 62 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 31 (F1) Unknown 99 99 41909078405	113% Outstanding	Read 503 Write 400 Mixed 408 97% 437 MB/s	4K Read 44.8 4K Write 92.5 4K Mixed 49.2 180% 62.2 MB/s	DQ Read 338 DQ Write 267 DQ Mixed 119 139% 241 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 134%
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 78GB free Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4531125 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 -43482248886526 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4835 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 360 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 128 129 545469300864 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4531125 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4531125 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4531125 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4321 (EA) Unknown 0 0 4531 (F1) Unknown 0 0 4531 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11095	70% Good	Read 490 Write 120 Mixed 208 59% 273 MB/s	4K Read 33.3 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 15.7 126% 51.3 MB/s	DQ Read 175 DQ Write 141 DQ Mixed 36.6 60% 118 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 82%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$50 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 1TB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 227850792 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6330 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 10546396 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9218 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3054 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 94 4295098381 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 64 420937753 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 7 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 87 87 27259 (C2) HDA temperature 25 40 21474836505 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 6 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 22943715305868 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3317668882 (F2) Unknown 100 253 292804741579	67.8% Good	Read 91.7 Write 143 Mixed 104 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 5.24 4K Mixed 0.71 211% 2.26 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 67.8% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GB 24,592 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	85.3% Excellent	MC Read 31.6 MC Write 32.7 MC Mixed 27.3 87% 30.5 GB/s	SC Read 19 SC Write 22.5 SC Mixed 25.2 64% 22.2 GB/s	Latency 50.4 79% 50.4 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 88%

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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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Value: 60% - Above average

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 $179	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) $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