Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1/USB 3.1

Performance Results


Gaming 38% Jet ski	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 30% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	39.2% 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	72.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
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, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1/USB 3.1 (all builds)
Memory	5.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150818
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 21 '17 at 22:27
Run Duration	185 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	85% Excellent	Memory 94.8 1-Core 116 2-Core 230 84% 147 Pts	4-Core 435 8-Core 437 58% 436 Pts	64-Core 435 27% 435 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 85% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 470-$126 94,030 User benchmarks, average bench 40% Asus(1043 04B0) CLim: 1250 MHz, MLim: 825 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 16.12.2 Performing below potential (51^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	39.2% Below average	Lighting 49 Reflection 62.1 Parallax 64.7 40% 58.6 fps	MRender 38.9 Gravity 47.8 Splatting 50.1 38% 45.6 fps
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 39.2% Great: 47%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 250GB-$90 26,761 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 233GB free Firmware: X41100WD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 10 (A5) Unknown 100 100 327683 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 19 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 214 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 4 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 61 63 270584578087 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 25 (F1) Unknown 253 253 23 (F2) Unknown 253 253 16 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	74.4% Very good	Read 480 Write 339 Mixed 336 85% 385 MB/s	4K Read 31.5 4K Write 64.2 4K Mixed 21.4 109% 39 MB/s	DQ Read 25.1 DQ Write 73.6 DQ Mixed 44.4 35% 47.7 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 74.4% Great: 100%
WD Blue 250GB-$90 26,761 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 178GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41100WD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 16 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1769489 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 39 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 280 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 4 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 60 66 283469348904 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 17179869188 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 67 (EA) Unknown 100 100 128 (F1) Unknown 253 253 117 (F2) Unknown 253 253 80 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	72.4% Very good	Read 477 Write 216 Mixed 253 69% 315 MB/s	4K Read 35.6 4K Write 62.8 4K Mixed 20 113% 39.4 MB/s	DQ Read 141 DQ Write 176 DQ Mixed 43.6 65% 120 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 72.4% Great: 100%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 2TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 174 4125 (04) Start/Stop count 1 1 370597 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3435 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 1 1 244326 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 31 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 68 68 396460 (C2) HDA temperature 113 92 34 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	82% Excellent	Read 141 Write 145 Mixed 142 108% 143 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 2.31 4K Mixed 0.22 101% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 82% Great: 84%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 923GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 75 66 39968201 (03) Spinup time 98 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 6 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 31423 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 6 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 65 589430819 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 6 (C2) HDA temperature 35 23 98784247843 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 7 7 39968201 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -117639154237438 (F1) Unknown 100 253 29171283 (F2) Unknown 100 253 10796918	106% Outstanding	Read 192 Write 179 Mixed 162 133% 177 MB/s	4K Read 0.99 4K Write 1.63 4K Mixed 0.31 106% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 113%
Seagate ST3750528AS 750GB-$65 22,230 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 698GB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 115901746 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1982 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 62 60 201933053907 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4118 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1986 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 33 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 51 606273572 (C2) HDA temperature 36 49 64424509476 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 37 21 115901746 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -66623532686716 (F1) Unknown 100 253 641464174 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2613812428	67.6% Good	Read 119 Write 116 Mixed 111 87% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.22 4K Mixed 0.6 122% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 65%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 2,560 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	64.1% Good	MC Read 22.3 MC Write 23.2 MC Mixed 20.4 63% 22 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 20.9 SC Mixed 19.9 56% 19.7 GB/s	Latency 57.6 70% 57.6 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 64.1% Great: 62%

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Gaming 83%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 69%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1/USB 3.1

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	148x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	16x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	12x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	28x
GTX 980-TiNvidia $560Bench 79%, 214,030 samples	13x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	13x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	14x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	13x
MX500 1TBCrucial $66Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	13x

RAM
DDR3-2800 CL12 4GB 4x4GBUnknownBench 72%, 26 samples	13x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	10x
Sniper DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 54%, 4,251 samples	9x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $848

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