Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1/USB 3.1

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (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 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	116% 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	71.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1/USB 3.1 (all builds)
Memory	11.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150818
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 21 '17 at 23:03
Run Duration	157 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing as expected (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 i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 1150, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	77% Very good	Memory 91.2 1-Core 106 2-Core 211 78% 136 Pts	4-Core 371 8-Core 329 48% 350 Pts	64-Core 412 26% 412 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 77% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6288) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.66 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	116% Outstanding	Lighting 159 Reflection 160 Parallax 139 130% 153 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 148 Splatting 114 102% 126 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$115 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 22GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM0 Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	71.8% Very good	Read 375 Write 280 Mixed 325 73% 327 MB/s	4K Read 24 4K Write 61.4 4K Mixed 28.1 105% 37.9 MB/s	DQ Read 214 DQ Write 123 DQ Mixed 110 97% 149 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 71.8% Great: 124%
Seagate ST3160318AS 160GB-$43 15,932 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 99GB free Firmware: CC6B Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 114952848 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2125 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 66275854 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4090 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 847 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 90 30 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 58 554958877 (C2) HDA temperature 29 42 60129542173 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 65 51 114952848 (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 -83876416317126 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2583713706 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3184621899	39.7% Below average	Read 74.1 Write 64.2 Mixed 57.8 49% 65.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.37 82% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 39.7% Great: 58%
WD Blue 250GB (2010)-$37 50,270 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 67GB free Firmware: 19.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 141 140 3916 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1980 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 14080 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1922 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 69 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1910 (C2) HDA temperature 113 93 30 (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 (F0) Head flying hours 82 82 13272 (F1) Unknown 200 200 18297378049 (F2) Unknown 200 200 19798217741	49.5% Average	Read 86.5 Write 85.7 Mixed 83.6 64% 85.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.97 4K Mixed 0.43 112% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 49.5% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 2,161 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	61.1% Good	MC Read 22.1 MC Write 22.9 MC Mixed 18.7 61% 21.2 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 20 SC Mixed 19 52% 18.2 GB/s	Latency 65.4 61% 65.4 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 61.1% Great: 71%

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Typical SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1/USB 3.1 Builds (Compare 200 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 83%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 69%

Battle cruiser

Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1/USB 3.1

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	147x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	16x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	12x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	28x
GTX 980-TiNvidia $560Bench 79%, 214,030 samples	13x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	13x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	14x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	13x
MX500 1TBCrucial $66Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	13x

RAM
DDR3-2800 CL12 4GB 4x4GBUnknownBench 72%, 26 samples	13x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	10x
Sniper DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 54%, 4,251 samples	9x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $848

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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) $30	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