Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1/USB 3.1

Performance Results


Gaming 39% Jet ski	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 34% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 90%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	38% 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)
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 1/USB 3.1 (all builds)
Memory	10.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151111
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Feb 07 '18 at 00:39
Run Duration	261 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (73^rd 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)	90% Excellent	Memory 97.1 1-Core 129 2-Core 259 91% 162 Pts	4-Core 446 8-Core 687 70% 567 Pts	64-Core 693 43% 693 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 90% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% EVGA(3842 3968) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	38% Below average	Lighting 50 Reflection 46.3 Parallax 41.9 41% 46.1 fps	MRender 39.9 Gravity 42.8 Splatting 37.5 33% 40.1 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 38% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 42GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q 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 97 97 10700 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2557 (B1) Unknown 94 94 121 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 56 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 2 (EB) Unknown 99 99 58 (F1) Unknown 99 99 25618809980
Poor: 64% Great: 115%
Samsung 840 250GB-$251 41,998 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 18GB free Firmware: DXT0AB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 15827 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 4433 (B1) Unknown 94 94 54 (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 69 57 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 194 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12163110165	78.1% Very good	Read 504 Write 226 Mixed 148 64% 293 MB/s	4K Read 32.2 4K Write 93.3 4K Mixed 13.5 115% 46.3 MB/s	DQ Read 342 DQ Write 167 DQ Mixed 31 82% 180 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 85%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 14GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7534 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1734 (B1) Unknown 98 98 34 (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 69 55 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 40 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15641385058	118% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 410 Mixed 421 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 48.1 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 51 192% 67 MB/s	DQ Read 353 DQ Write 235 DQ Mixed 120 136% 236 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 134%
Samsung Spinpoint F4 2TB-$119 45,158 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 89GB free Firmware: 1AQ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 26 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 68 68 9758 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5434 (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 18428 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3813 (B5) Unknown 99 99 34397284 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 678 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 59 176094642207 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 9 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 55507	48.9% Average	Read 67.8 Write 102 Mixed 85.7 64% 85.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 2.03 4K Mixed 0.3 89% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 48.9% Great: 72%
Hitachi HDS723020ALA640 2TB 19 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 1.5TB free, PID 2773 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	53.9% Above average	Read 125 Write 141 Mixed 102 158% 123 MB/s	4K Read 1.11 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.41 72% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 53.9% Great: 54%
SanDisk Ultra 124GB 3,905 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 28GB free, PID 5581 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	14.9% Very poor	Read 32.8 Write 17.3 Mixed 22.7 29% 24.3 MB/s	4K Read 3.37 4K Write 1.82 4K Mixed 0.81 102% 2 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 14.9% Great: 36%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 1866 C8 2x8GB 946 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	69.8% Good	MC Read 24.7 MC Write 25.5 MC Mixed 21.6 68% 23.9 GB/s	SC Read 15.8 SC Write 23.9 SC Mixed 22.2 59% 20.6 GB/s	Latency 49.7 80% 49.7 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 69.8% Great: 74%

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Gaming 83%

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Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 69%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 1/USB 3.1

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	148x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	16x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	12x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 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 $94Bench 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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Total price: $643

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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 $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16