Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 (all builds)
Memory	9.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151027
Uptime	14.7 Days
Run Date	Jan 26 '18 at 09:07
Run Duration	247 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing as expected (47^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	82.8% Excellent	Memory 90.7 1-Core 116 2-Core 222 82% 143 Pts	4-Core 404 8-Core 618 63% 511 Pts	64-Core 616 38% 616 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 82.8% Great: 84%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 78GB free Firmware: DXM0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 86 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5069 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 52 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (B3) Unknown 99 99 86 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 99 99 86 (BB) vendor-specific 97 97 29838 (BE) vendor-specific 73 64 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 1 1 29838 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 6 (EB) Unknown 99 99 31 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1897281514	58.6% Above average	Read 372 Write 115 Mixed 241 53% 243 MB/s	4K Read 27.9 4K Write 57.7 4K Mixed 21.5 100% 35.7 MB/s	DQ Read 184 DQ Write 118 DQ Mixed 52.2 66% 118 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 58.6% Great: 116%
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 72GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 21716 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 120 (B1) Unknown 98 98 70 (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 71 52 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 19 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15837146822
Poor: 68% Great: 116%
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 37GB free Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 31 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7014 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 682 (B1) Unknown 99 99 17 (B3) Unknown 99 99 31 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 99 99 31 (BB) vendor-specific 98 98 11823 (BE) vendor-specific 73 58 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 1 1 11823 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 33 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4318440690	114% Outstanding	Read 524 Write 499 Mixed 513 114% 512 MB/s	4K Read 37.2 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 30.7 158% 62 MB/s	DQ Read 379 DQ Write 321 DQ Mixed 93.3 140% 264 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 116%
WD Red 4TB (2013)-$110 55,507 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 1TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 172 8000 (04) Start/Stop count 85 85 15749 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 64 64 26607 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 316 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 40 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 153 153 142137 (C2) HDA temperature 123 108 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	63.1% Good	Read 117 Write 103 Mixed 97.7 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 0.41 4K Mixed 0.26 55% 0.37 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 63.1% Great: 100%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 750GB-$60 30,974 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 262GB free Firmware: 1AA0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 85 85 5500 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 1770 (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 91 91 43722 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 126 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 81 66 454230035 (C2) HDA temperature 83 65 504299537 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 150824348 (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 100 100 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0	48.8% Average	Read 90.6 Write 79.2 Mixed 80.9 63% 83.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.33 85% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 48.8% Great: 60%
WD WD30EURS-63SPKY0 3TB 3,175 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 52GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 146 143 9700 (04) Start/Stop count 67 67 33117 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 49 48 37762 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 346 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 52 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 189 189 33064 (C2) HDA temperature 129 111 23 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	39.9% Below average	Read 64.4 Write 74.4 Mixed 70 52% 69.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.19 68% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 39.9% Great: 82%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$65 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 43GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 128 124 6591 (04) Start/Stop count 67 67 33790 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 59 59 30217 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 387 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 60 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 137 137 191776 (C2) HDA temperature 121 102 26 (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	34.9% Below average	Read 63.6 Write 57.7 Mixed 59.3 45% 60.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.19 72% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 34.9% Great: 57%

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 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	52.3% Above average	MC Read 18.1 MC Write 18.5 MC Mixed 15.9 50% 17.5 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 19.8 SC Mixed 17.5 50% 17.6 GB/s	Latency 66.2 60% 66.2 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 52.3% Great: 71%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1 - $272

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	415x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	85x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	58x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	77x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	60x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	49x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	37x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	31x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	25x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	40x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	29x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	25x

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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