Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2

Performance Results


Gaming 36% Jet ski	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 31% Sail boat


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 91.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	34.7% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	119% 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.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2 (all builds)
Memory	14.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151027
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 25 '16 at 10:02
Run Duration	207 Seconds
Run User	PRT-User
Background CPU	0%

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, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.4% Outstanding	Memory 94.9 1-Core 133 2-Core 263 92% 164 Pts	4-Core 474 8-Core 698 73% 586 Pts	64-Core 700 43% 700 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 91.4% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 280X-$500 94,130 User benchmarks, average bench 35% AMD(1002 0B00) 3GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 16.200.1010.0 Performing below potential (58^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	34.7% Below average	Lighting 45.3 Reflection 30.2 Parallax 56.4 37% 44 fps	MRender 28.8 Gravity 44.1 Splatting 37.6 30% 36.9 fps
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 34.7% Great: 39%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 53GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 35 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 72 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 66 60 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 40 (F1) Unknown 99 99 579777839	119% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 405 Mixed 417 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 47.9 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 49.6 195% 69.4 MB/s	DQ Read 376 DQ Write 275 DQ Mixed 116 144% 256 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 124%
Samsung HD103SJ 2TB 20 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 781GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 178 5983 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 70 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 651 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 70 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2849 (C2) HDA temperature 122 121 28 (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	54.7% Above average	Read 96.2 Write 93.9 Mixed 97.4 72% 95.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 2.37 4K Mixed 0.29 104% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 54.7% Great: 98%
Samsung HD103SM 1TB 933 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 156GB free Firmware: 1AJ10206 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 70 68 9166 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1965 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 13491 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1977 (B7) Unknown 252 252 0 (B8) Unknown 252 252 0 (BA) Unknown 252 252 0 (BB) vendor-specific 252 252 0 (BC) Unknown 252 252 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 53 201864314906 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 293 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 22433 (C2) HDA temperature 64 53 201864314906 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 24	69.1% Good	Read 127 Write 113 Mixed 113 89% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 2.58 4K Mixed 0.32 98% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 69.1% Great: 80%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$64 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 84GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 124 119 6766 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1527 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6894 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1391 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 145 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 184 184 49992 (C2) HDA temperature 120 96 27 (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	42.1% Average	Read 67.2 Write 79.7 Mixed 84.7 58% 77.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 0.88 4K Mixed 0.14 56% 0.53 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 42.1% Great: 57%
Toshiba MK3252GSX 320GB-$70 3,538 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 30GB free Firmware: LV010A Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing as expected (50^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 1566 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3307 (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 80 80 8261 (0A) Spinup retry count 165 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3272 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 231 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 90718 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 231928627227 (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 200 200 160 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 8301 (DE) Loaded hours 87 87 5452 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 350 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	25.7% Poor	Read 35.8 Write 53.5 Mixed 57.8 37% 49 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.01 4K Mixed 0.19 59% 0.55 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 25.7% Great: 34%

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 1333 MHz clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	60.9% Good	MC Read 21.4 MC Write 21.9 MC Mixed 18.7 59% 20.7 GB/s	SC Read 14.7 SC Write 23.4 SC Mixed 19.1 54% 19.1 GB/s	Latency 57.3 70% 57.3 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 71%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2 - $183

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	360x
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	38x

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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Total price: $831

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $40	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