Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK S

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 60% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 95.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	72.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	80.5% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK S (all builds)
Memory	28.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141022
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 23 '17 at 23:21
Run Duration	186 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (60^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 4.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.1% Outstanding	Memory 96.8 1-Core 136 2-Core 264 93% 166 Pts	4-Core 506 8-Core 711 76% 608 Pts	64-Core 706 44% 706 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 95.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4991) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (18^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	72.8% Very good	Lighting 93.7 Reflection 95.2 Parallax 86.5 76% 91.8 fps	MRender 81.2 Gravity 83.8 Splatting 77.3 66% 80.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 72.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB-$150 34,842 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 92GB free Firmware: DXM04B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 15928 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3939 (B1) Unknown 93 93 232 (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 60 54 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 224 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15269868096	81.9% Excellent	Read 504 Write 363 Mixed 413 95% 427 MB/s	4K Read 28.8 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 17.6 127% 53.7 MB/s	DQ Read 29 DQ Write 108 DQ Mixed 65.8 51% 67.7 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 110%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 84GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11924 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2887 (B1) Unknown 96 96 41 (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 58 53 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 66 (EB) Unknown 99 99 192 (F1) Unknown 99 99 22289784459	80.5% Excellent	Read 491 Write 342 Mixed 349 87% 394 MB/s	4K Read 37.3 4K Write 84.2 4K Mixed 21.7 129% 47.7 MB/s	DQ Read 36.5 DQ Write 69.7 DQ Mixed 18.9 24% 41.7 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 118%
WD Red 6TB (2014)-$129 11,340 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 3.5TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 198 197 9091 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 34 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 76 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 31 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 2 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 69 (C2) HDA temperature 112 106 40 (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	91% Outstanding	Read 177 Write 141 Mixed 129 111% 149 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 0.26 100% 1 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 99%
WD Red 6TB (2014)-$129 11,340 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 3.5TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 198 197 9058 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2127 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2408 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 706 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 28 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4682 (C2) HDA temperature 111 107 41 (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	76.6% Very good	Read 121 Write 146 Mixed 143 103% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.92 4K Write 1.94 4K Mixed 0.27 104% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 99%
Hitachi HTS 541010B7E610 1TB 193 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 643GB free Firmware: 0004 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	70% Good	Read 140 Write 103 Mixed 95.8 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 2.97 4K Mixed 0.34 120% 1.32 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLE8G3D1869DE1TX0. 4x8GB 587 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 1867 MHz clocked @ 1904 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	72.4% Very good	MC Read 25.7 MC Write 26.1 MC Mixed 22.1 70% 24.6 GB/s	SC Read 20.4 SC Write 24.6 SC Mixed 24.5 66% 23.2 GB/s	Latency 51 78% 51 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 72.4% Great: 73%

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Gaming 97%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 81%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK S

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	153x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	19x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	18x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	26x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	24x
GTX 980-TiNvidia $560Bench 79%, 214,030 samples	19x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	19x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	15x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	11x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	19x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	16x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	12x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $942

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 $178	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