Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK S

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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 92.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	96.1% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	63.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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

4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK S (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151027
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 22 '19 at 23:09
Run Duration	130 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing as expected (54^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.2% Outstanding	Memory 96.8 1-Core 130 2-Core 259 91% 162 Pts	4-Core 505 8-Core 516 68% 510 Pts	64-Core 511 32% 511 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 92.2% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Zotac(19DA 1426) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 416.94 Performing below potential (16^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	96.1% Outstanding	Lighting 118 Reflection 120 Parallax 101 96% 113 fps	MRender 112 Gravity 136 Splatting 107 96% 118 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 96.1% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX100 256GB-$116 55,768 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 32GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 257 214 188 166 159 134 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	63.8% Good	Read 416 Write 291 Mixed 225 SusWrite 186 62% 279 MB/s	4K Read 26.6 4K Write 45.9 4K Mixed 30.9 104% 34.5 MB/s	DQ Read 103 DQ Write 45.7 DQ Mixed 52.3 45% 67 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 63.8% Great: 97%
WDC WD10EZEX-21M2NA0 240GB 15GB free Firmware: CS900612 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples		Read 476 Write 306 Mixed 316 81% 366 MB/s	4K Read 37.4 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 34.9 156% 58.7 MB/s	DQ Read 231 DQ Write 314 DQ Mixed 178 161% 241 MB/s

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLE8G3D1869DE1TX0. 2x8GB 3,080 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1867 MHz clocked @ 1904 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	72.4% Very good	MC Read 25.1 MC Write 26.7 MC Mixed 23.2 71% 25 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 24.1 SC Mixed 22.7 62% 21.5 GB/s	Latency 51 78% 51 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 72.4% Great: 72%

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Typical SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK S Builds (Compare 219 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 97%

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Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 81%

Aircraft carrier

Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK S

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	153x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	19x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	18x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	26x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	24x
GTX 980-TiNvidia $560Bench 79%, 214,030 samples	19x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	19x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	15x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	11x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	19x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	16x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	12x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $942

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