Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2

Performance Results


Gaming 107% UFO	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 89% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 89.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	120% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	100% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (74%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 6 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2 (all builds)
Memory	27.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors, ,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140617
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 07 '17 at 00:35
Run Duration	162 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	74%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st 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 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.4% Excellent	Memory 95.2 1-Core 116 2-Core 240 85% 151 Pts	4-Core 453 8-Core 635 68% 544 Pts	64-Core 658 41% 658 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 89.4% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85E4) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing below potential (33^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	120% Outstanding	Lighting 159 Reflection 209 Parallax 185 130% 184 fps	MRender 133 Gravity 184 Splatting 115 115% 144 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 720GB free Firmware: X355 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 5982 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 606 (A5) Unknown 100 100 12919636379 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 21 (A8) Unknown 100 100 5 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 14 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 69 38 163210002463 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 292058693700 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1722 (EA) Unknown 100 100 17439 (F1) Unknown 253 253 16281 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1801 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	84.5% Excellent	Read 481 Write 318 Mixed 284 80% 361 MB/s	4K Read 33.6 4K Write 90.5 4K Mixed 19.8 124% 48 MB/s	DQ Read 292 DQ Write 148 DQ Mixed 34.2 75% 158 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 107%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 58GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10113 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1415 (B1) Unknown 88 88 134 (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 64 52 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 97 (F1) Unknown 99 99 27568785841	100% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 347 Mixed 350 89% 401 MB/s	4K Read 48.5 4K Write 96.8 4K Mixed 25.8 158% 57 MB/s	DQ Read 355 DQ Write 228 DQ Mixed 83.3 118% 222 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 118%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 2TB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 167 166 6608 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4100 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6103 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 605 (10) Unknown 1 199 32478183859 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 11 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4088 (C2) HDA temperature 116 107 34 (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	92.9% Outstanding	Read 169 Write 154 Mixed 154 120% 159 MB/s	4K Read 0.97 4K Write 3.33 4K Mixed 0.34 140% 1.55 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 92.9% Great: 112%
Seagate ST310005 28AS 1TB 6,973 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 220GB free Firmware: CC35 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 88 167606979 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2209 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 145915698 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12815 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 37 2211 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 3081 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 69 55 521994271 (C2) HDA temperature 31 45 42949672991 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 37 22 167606979 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 11 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 11 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 38156489476329 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2854816400 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1319870114	52.6% Above average	Read 92.4 Write 91.1 Mixed 90.4 69% 91.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.24 4K Mixed 0.42 93% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 52.6% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GB 12,722 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	69.2% Good	MC Read 25.5 MC Write 25.6 MC Mixed 21.9 70% 24.3 GB/s	SC Read 15.6 SC Write 21.1 SC Mixed 20.2 54% 19 GB/s	Latency 56.5 71% 56.5 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 69.2% Great: 80%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

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 $129Bench 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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $46

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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