Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX

Performance Results


Gaming 53% Yacht	Desktop 70% Battle cruiser	Workstation 42% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 62.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	82.3% 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	62.7% 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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20121016
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 15 '18 at 18:42
Run Duration	237 Seconds
Run User	BEL-User
Background CPU	29%

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PC Performing as expected (40^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8150-$770 22,181 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.85 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	62.5% Good	Memory 83.5 1-Core 70.1 2-Core 127 58% 93.7 Pts	4-Core 226 8-Core 375 37% 301 Pts	64-Core 347 22% 347 Pts
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 62.5% Great: 66%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3772) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing below potential (73^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.3% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 119 Parallax 100 84% 107 fps	MRender 95.6 Gravity 98.6 Splatting 94.7 79% 96.3 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 156GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2184 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 253 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (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 65 57 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 7 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4307482533	86.3% Excellent	Read 488 Write 374 Mixed 396 93% 419 MB/s	4K Read 30.1 4K Write 55.5 4K Mixed 36.2 121% 40.6 MB/s	DQ Read 150 DQ Write 125 DQ Mixed 17.2 46% 97.2 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 86.3% Great: 124%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 41GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0AB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 31440 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1469 (B1) Unknown 85 85 176 (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 70 57 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 96 96 3122 (EB) Unknown 99 99 128 (F1) Unknown 99 99 48408107743	62.7% Good	Read 475 Write 278 Mixed 300 78% 351 MB/s	4K Read 28.4 4K Write 40.7 4K Mixed 13.5 82% 27.5 MB/s	DQ Read 30.5 DQ Write 99.6 DQ Mixed 13.5 25% 47.9 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 62.7% Great: 108%
WD Blue 1TB (2010)-$39 55,121 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 925GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 8 (03) Spinup time 175 172 4233 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7820 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 50 50 36702 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2612 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 122 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7697 (C2) HDA temperature 118 97 29 (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	51.3% Above average	Read 102 Write 77.1 Mixed 101 71% 93.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.71 4K Mixed 0.23 74% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 51.3% Great: 74%
Medion WLAN HDD 1TB 60 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 680GB free, PID 0701 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	15.3% Very poor	Read 28.7 Write 26.6 Mixed 24.3 34% 26.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.24 67% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 15.3% Great: 43%
TOSHIBA USB 3.5"-HDD 1TB 621 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 438GB free, PID 0b09 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	14.9% Very poor	Read 29 Write 27.5 Mixed 28 36% 28.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.48 4K Mixed 0.35 64% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 14.9% Great: 20%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 16GB 70,565 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	43.3% Average	MC Read 16.7 MC Write 14.6 MC Mixed 15.3 44% 15.5 GB/s	SC Read 7.8 SC Write 8 SC Mixed 11.1 26% 8.97 GB/s	Latency 74.3 54% 74.3 ns
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 43.3% Great: 54%

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Gaming 36%

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Desktop 68%

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Workstation 29%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX - $200

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	119x
FX-8150AMD $770Bench 59%, 22,181 samples	75x
FX-8120AMDBench 56%, 25,690 samples	66x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	32x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	24x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	18x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	16x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	10x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	9x

RAM
16GBUnknownBench 41%, 70,565 samples	226x
8GBUnknownBench 34%, 82,857 samples	90x
32GBUnknownBench 53%, 5,781 samples	38x

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Value: 77% - Very good

Total price: $527

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $64	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16