Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 30% Sail boat	Desktop 59% Gunboat	Workstation 22% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 49.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	64.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 (all builds)
Memory	3.3 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140106
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	May 08 '17 at 02:35
Run Duration	86 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (46^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-4300-$73 55,454 User benchmarks, average bench 52% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	49.4% Average	Memory 74.6 1-Core 66.4 2-Core 118 53% 86.4 Pts	4-Core 136 8-Core 176 20% 156 Pts	64-Core 173 11% 173 Pts
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 49.4% Great: 60%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 1982) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	64.1% Good	Lighting 81.1 Reflection 84 Parallax 80.9 66% 82 fps	MRender 81.2 Gravity 75.4 Splatting 67.4 60% 74.7 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 64.1% Great: 66%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 562GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 173 2066 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 622 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2545 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 498 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 169 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 454 (C2) HDA temperature 117 110 26 (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	85.6% Excellent	Read 150 Write 148 Mixed 144 111% 147 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 2.87 4K Mixed 0.3 104% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Adata 1x8GB 25,310 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	29.2% Poor	MC Read 10.5 MC Write 10.2 MC Mixed 9 28% 9.9 GB/s	SC Read 7.5 SC Write 8 SC Mixed 7.3 22% 7.6 GB/s	Latency 91.1 44% 91.1 ns
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 29.2% Great: 52%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 34%

Sail boat

Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 - $200

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	863x
FX-9590AMD $298Bench 63%, 26,109 samples	208x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	146x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	110x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	83x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	81x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	62x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	61x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	59x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	84x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	45x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	28x

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Value: 53% - Above average

Total price: $630

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