Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2

Performance Results


Gaming 19% Surfboard	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 17% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (82nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 18 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 89.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	14.2% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	50% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2 (all builds)
Memory	3.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit farver
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140711
Uptime	28.3 Days
Run Date	May 20 '16 at 17:08
Run Duration	159 Seconds
Run User	DNK-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.7% Excellent	Memory 95.3 1-Core 134 2-Core 262 92% 164 Pts	4-Core 454 8-Core 694 71% 574 Pts	64-Core 693 43% 693 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 89.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 7770 38,053 User benchmarks, average bench 12% Asus(1043 043B) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.0 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	14.2% Very poor	Lighting 17.6 Reflection 17 Parallax 23.2 14% 19.3 fps	MRender 14.1 Gravity 17.4 Splatting 19 14% 16.8 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 14.2% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate Backup+ Desk 5TB 1,926 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 4TB free Firmware: 040B Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	16.2% Very poor	Read 140 Write 137 Mixed 97.1 28% 124 MB/s	4K Read 1.49 4K Write 8.01 4K Mixed 0.58 7% 3.36 MB/s	DQ Read 4.01 DQ Write 9.27 DQ Mixed 0.77 2% 4.68 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 16.2% Great: 18%
OCZ Agility 3 120GB-$102 38,562 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 26GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 116 145149310 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 -133169755972951 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 165 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 34 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 145149310 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 145149310 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 145149310 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 6011 (EA) Unknown 0 0 4430 (F1) Unknown 0 0 4430 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5862	50% Above average	Read 194 Write 98.1 Mixed 111 30% 134 MB/s	4K Read 27.1 4K Write 98.7 4K Mixed 12 109% 45.9 MB/s	DQ Read 139 DQ Write 106 DQ Mixed 29.8 47% 91.4 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 50% Great: 61%
WD WD1002FBYS-02A6B0 1TB 28,278 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 460GB free Firmware: 03.00C06 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 1025 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2657 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 12795 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2042 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 86 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2569 (C2) HDA temperature 117 101 33 (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	58.7% Above average	Read 116 Write 88.1 Mixed 98.2 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.39 108% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 58.7% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GB 18,444 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1400 MHz clocked @ 1800 MHz Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	66.6% Good	MC Read 23.5 MC Write 24.4 MC Mixed 20.6 65% 22.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 23.8 SC Mixed 20.7 59% 20.6 GB/s	Latency 56.2 71% 56.2 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 71%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2 - $183

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	358x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	104x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	103x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	105x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	54x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	37x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	53x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	35x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	32x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	53x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	21x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	20x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $831

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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