Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX R3.0

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 70.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is 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	160% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (20%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX R3.0 (all builds)
Memory	13.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160718
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 20 '17 at 16:29
Run Duration	457 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	20%

PC Performing as expected (45^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-9590-$298 26,109 User benchmarks, average bench 63% Socket 942, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	70.1% Very good	Memory 91.6 1-Core 80.4 2-Core 138 64% 103 Pts	4-Core 264 8-Core 455 44% 359 Pts	64-Core 467 29% 467 Pts
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 374C) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1949 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing below potential (30^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	120% Outstanding	Lighting 160 Reflection 190 Parallax 167 130% 172 fps	MRender 126 Gravity 170 Splatting 125 114% 140 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 199GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	160% Outstanding	Read 1,266 Write 931 Mixed 1,032 239% 1,077 MB/s	4K Read 44 4K Write 86.6 4K Mixed 29.3 150% 53.3 MB/s	DQ Read 204 DQ Write 143 DQ Mixed 23 58% 123 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 160% Great: 236%
Kingston SSDNow KC400 128GB-$75 747 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 118GB free Firmware: SAFM001B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 981 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 223 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 305 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1376323 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 96 (C2) HDA temperature 73 68 137440395291 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2744 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2104 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1290 (F4) Unknown 100 100 21 (F5) Unknown 100 100 67 (F6) Unknown 100 100 747872	65.5% Good	Read 492 Write 340 Mixed 371 89% 401 MB/s	4K Read 22.8 4K Write 44.8 4K Mixed 11.2 73% 26.3 MB/s	DQ Read 23.3 DQ Write 159 DQ Mixed 11.1 32% 64.4 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 65.5% Great: 106%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 46GB free Firmware: 600ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 8593656896 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 -12223476915398 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1018 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 130 (B1) Unknown 0 0 97 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 27 51 81607720987 (C2) HDA temperature 27 51 81607720987 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 98 98 8593656896 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 98 98 8593656896 (CC) Soft ECC correction 98 98 8593656896 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 16731 (EA) Unknown 0 0 8660 (F1) Unknown 0 0 8660 (F2) Unknown 0 0 8460 (F4) Unknown 96 96 196673672	54.1% Above average	Read 487 Write 93.7 Mixed 158 53% 246 MB/s	4K Read 22.6 4K Write 75.7 4K Mixed 12.2 90% 36.8 MB/s	DQ Read 25.4 DQ Write 109 DQ Mixed 28.8 33% 54.6 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 54.1% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2016)-$114 34,353 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 3.5TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 68 67 5864289 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 5 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 20244 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -105003360452607 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 5 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 72 471531548 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 6 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 21 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 85899345948 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -123909806489600 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3094719 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2769570	102% Outstanding	Read 181 Write 174 Mixed 141 124% 165 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 2.21 4K Mixed 0.29 104% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 105%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$40 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 377GB free Firmware: MX4OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 72 (03) Spinup time 129 129 17199857947 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 542 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3727 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 513 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 542 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 542 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 184684838945 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	93.6% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 157 Mixed 147 119% 158 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.86 4K Mixed 0.17 84% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 93.6% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 95GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 159381440 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 969 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 19076152 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 8879 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 995 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 56 521994271 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 103 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5311 (C2) HDA temperature 31 44 68719476767 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -37353330564518 (F1) Unknown 100 253 16681960874 (F2) Unknown 100 253 652353005877	77.2% Very good	Read 140 Write 129 Mixed 139 103% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.77 4K Mixed 0.17 79% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 77.2% Great: 112%
Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 16GB 13,169 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 11GB free, PID 1665 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	5.25% Terrible	Read 24.1 Write 3.43 Mixed 6.02 10% 11.2 MB/s	4K Read 3.75 4K Write 0.04 4K Mixed 0.02 16% 1.27 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 5.25% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D18ADS3.16FE 2x8GB 2,913 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (22^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	49.2% Average	MC Read 20.6 MC Write 15 MC Mixed 16.4 50% 17.3 GB/s	SC Read 11.6 SC Write 9.1 SC Mixed 13.9 33% 11.5 GB/s	Latency 64.8 62% 64.8 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 49.2% Great: 72%

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Gaming 52%

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Desktop 69%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 42%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH 990FX R3.0

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	37x
FX-9590AMD $298Bench 63%, 26,109 samples	22x
FX-8370AMD $175Bench 62%, 34,720 samples	9x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	9x
RX 480AMD $75Bench 46%, 261,163 samples	7x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	6x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	5x
CS900 240GBPNY $22Bench 73%, 61,417 samples	3x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	3x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	4x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GBKingstonBench 55%, 6,948 samples	4x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	4x

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Value: 84% - Excellent

Total price: $371

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 $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) $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