Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1

Performance Results


Gaming 49% Yacht	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 41% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 86.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	56.4% 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	89.4% 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	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

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 (all builds)
Memory	10.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kleuren, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151027
Uptime	2 Days
Run Date	Jan 24 '17 at 21:01
Run Duration	266 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.2% Excellent	Memory 93 1-Core 120 2-Core 240 85% 151 Pts	4-Core 429 8-Core 627 66% 528 Pts	64-Core 628 39% 628 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 80%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
AMD R9 390-$325 82,117 User benchmarks, average bench 50% MSI(1462 2015) CLim: 1040 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 16.6 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	56.4% Above average	Lighting 70.1 Reflection 63 Parallax 86.8 57% 73.3 fps	MRender 62.1 Gravity 56.1 Splatting 78.6 55% 65.6 fps
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 56.4% Great: 52%
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Asus(1043 8534) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4531 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 3% Great: 3%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial BX200 480GB-$160 11,290 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 416GB free Firmware: MU01.4 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (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 100 100 126 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 365 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 42 (A3) Unknown 100 100 647 (94) Unknown 100 100 28681 (95) Unknown 100 100 442 (96) Unknown 100 100 253 (97) Unknown 100 100 404 (A4) Unknown 100 100 16952 (A5) Unknown 100 100 28 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 13 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 42 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 32019537264665 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 81125 (F2) Unknown 100 100 98440 (F5) Unknown 100 100 200245 (F6) Unknown 100 100 114724 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0	77.7% Very good	Read 487 Write 256 Mixed 268 74% 337 MB/s	4K Read 31.4 4K Write 64.4 4K Mixed 22.7 111% 39.5 MB/s	DQ Read 254 DQ Write 180 DQ Mixed 40.6 78% 158 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 77.7% Great: 95%
Intel 750 Series NVMe PCIe 400GB-$550 8,641 User benchmarks, average bench 186% 308GB free Firmware: 0171 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	92.7% Outstanding	Read 389 Write 388 Mixed 407 88% 395 MB/s	4K Read 38.3 4K Write 138 4K Mixed 28.8 168% 68.5 MB/s	DQ Read 39.3 DQ Write 149 DQ Mixed 29.1 41% 72.6 MB/s
Poor: 123% ↑ This bench: 92.7% Great: 230%
Crucial BX100 250GB-$141 42,930 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 185GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (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 100 100 264 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 526 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 67 (A3) Unknown 100 100 24 (A4) Unknown 100 100 16235 (A5) Unknown 100 100 48 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 13 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 61 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 509966 (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 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 73268 (F2) Unknown 100 100 88801 (F5) Unknown 100 100 129880	89.4% Excellent	Read 519 Write 355 Mixed 423 96% 432 MB/s	4K Read 30.6 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 23.4 134% 54.2 MB/s	DQ Read 31.1 DQ Write 316 DQ Mixed 23.3 62% 123 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 89.4% Great: 103%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 106GB free Firmware: 521ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 3069039 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 68822555953053 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 878 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 48 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 26 39 51542163482 (C2) HDA temperature 26 39 51542163482 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3069039 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3069039 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3069039 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 59 (EA) Unknown 0 0 61 (F1) Unknown 0 0 61 (F2) Unknown 0 0 40	52% Above average	Read 179 Write 128 Mixed 148 34% 151 MB/s	4K Read 26.4 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 10.7 112% 49.2 MB/s	DQ Read 120 DQ Write 127 DQ Mixed 10.8 39% 86 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 52% Great: 73%
Corsair Force 3 120GB-$109 22,358 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 56GB free Firmware: 5.02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 99 99 2512259 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -55430847888708 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1195 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 386 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (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 2512259 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 2512259 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 2512259 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 10275 (EA) Unknown 0 0 5841 (F1) Unknown 0 0 5841 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9738	51.2% Above average	Read 193 Write 109 Mixed 118 31% 140 MB/s	4K Read 28 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 9.41 112% 48.6 MB/s	DQ Read 140 DQ Write 108 DQ Mixed 30.7 48% 92.8 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 51.2% Great: 61%
WD WD10EACS-00ZJB0 1TB 28,352 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 909GB free Firmware: 01.01B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 2 (03) Spinup time 166 165 8691 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2509 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 44 44 41245 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2261 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1256 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 765043 (C2) HDA temperature 128 103 24 (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	38.5% Below average	Read 69.8 Write 64 Mixed 66.5 50% 66.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 2.17 4K Mixed 0.4 110% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 38.5% Great: 51%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 122,541 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	35.5% Below average	MC Read 11.9 MC Write 11.7 MC Mixed 9.9 32% 11.2 GB/s	SC Read 10.5 SC Write 12.4 SC Mixed 11.7 33% 11.5 GB/s	Latency 62.1 64% 62.1 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 35.5% Great: 72%

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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 $109Bench 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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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $929

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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