Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 89.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	83.8% 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	230% 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	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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2 (all builds)
Memory	24.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151027
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 05 '18 at 17:36
Run Duration	245 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing as expected (57^th 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)	89.5% Excellent	Memory 93.5 1-Core 128 2-Core 254 89% 159 Pts	4-Core 461 8-Core 670 71% 566 Pts	64-Core 693 43% 693 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 89.5% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Zotac(19DA 1396) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1755 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	83.8% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 112 Parallax 100 89% 107 fps	MRender 92.9 Gravity 97.5 Splatting 80.4 73% 90.3 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 4TB-$470 765 User benchmarks, average bench 113% 1.5TB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4425 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 551 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 68 59 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 123 (F1) Unknown 99 99 24111510688	95.1% Outstanding	Read 520 Write 415 Mixed 425 101% 453 MB/s	4K Read 44.7 4K Write 86.7 4K Mixed 30.9 153% 54.1 MB/s	DQ Read 47.7 DQ Write 109 DQ Mixed 29.1 36% 61.8 MB/s
Poor: 85% ↑ This bench: 95.1% Great: 133%
Samsung 840 Pro 512GB-$129 14,996 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 227GB free Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 33320 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2690 (B1) Unknown 89 89 386 (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 68 43 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 2 (EB) Unknown 99 99 357 (F1) Unknown 99 99 220780181192	110% Outstanding	Read 521 Write 500 Mixed 512 114% 511 MB/s	4K Read 35.7 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 31.4 148% 56.1 MB/s	DQ Read 371 DQ Write 283 DQ Mixed 27.3 102% 227 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 118%
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 146GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B6QCXP7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	230% Outstanding	Read 1,975 Write 1,525 Mixed 1,438 366% 1,646 MB/s	4K Read 46 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 37.8 179% 66.5 MB/s	DQ Read 49.8 DQ Write 163 DQ Mixed 35.9 48% 82.8 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 230% Great: 353%
WD Black 3TB (2013)-$151 16,992 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 516GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 142 131 11891 (04) Start/Stop count 82 82 18665 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 21756 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 661 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 177 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 194 194 18487 (C2) HDA temperature 106 83 46 (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	87% Excellent	Read 147 Write 156 Mixed 145 112% 149 MB/s	4K Read 1.04 4K Write 3.22 4K Mixed 0.27 133% 1.51 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 100%
USB 3.0 Drobo S - Gen 2 17.5TB 107 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 13TB free, PID 000a Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	11.3% Very poor	Read 42.9 Write 17 Mixed 19.2 29% 26.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.19 4K Write 0.43 4K Mixed 0.05 17% 0.22 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 11.3% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CML16GX3M2A1600C10 0215 CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10 0215 CML16GX3M2A1600C10 0215 CMZ16GX3M2A1600C10 32GB 69 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	59.4% Above average	MC Read 20.3 MC Write 21.6 MC Mixed 17.9 57% 19.9 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 23.8 SC Mixed 21 57% 20.1 GB/s	Latency 60.9 66% 60.9 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 59.4% Great: 62%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

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Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2 - $183

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	364x
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	106x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	54x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	39x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	53x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	35x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	32x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	54x
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 $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16