Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2/USB 3.1

Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 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 85.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	76.2% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	114% 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	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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 11 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.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2/USB 3.1 (all builds)
Memory	25.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150624
Uptime	1.6 Days
Run Date	Nov 03 '17 at 03:23
Run Duration	137 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (48^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 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	85.4% Excellent	Memory 91.3 1-Core 131 2-Core 254 89% 159 Pts	4-Core 429 8-Core 665 68% 547 Pts	64-Core 667 41% 667 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 85.4% 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: 376.19 Performing below potential (36^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	76.2% Very good	Lighting 99.4 Reflection 102 Parallax 104 81% 102 fps	MRender 86.7 Gravity 85.4 Splatting 75.6 67% 82.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 76.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$85 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 293GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6583 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1337 (B1) Unknown 98 98 25 (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 70 62 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 54 (F1) Unknown 99 99 29230209921	114% Outstanding	Read 499 Write 398 Mixed 413 97% 437 MB/s	4K Read 36.6 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 50.2 180% 67.2 MB/s	DQ Read 340 DQ Write 287 DQ Mixed 94.1 130% 240 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$110 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 252GB free Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6531 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1259 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 74 58 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 53 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4196607870	103% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 406 Mixed 423 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 37.3 4K Write 99.1 4K Mixed 30.6 148% 55.7 MB/s	DQ Read 324 DQ Write 279 DQ Mixed 136 147% 246 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 133%
WD WD2000FYYZ-01UL1 2TB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 581GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 167 164 6650 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11171 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6572 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1329 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 63 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 11107 (C2) HDA temperature 117 109 33 (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	68.7% Good	Read 138 Write 101 Mixed 114 89% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 2.78 4K Mixed 0.66 157% 1.41 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 68.7% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905471-079.A00LF 9905471-079.A00LF 99U5471-054.A00LF 99U5471-054.A00LF 32GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	59.1% Above average	MC Read 22 MC Write 20.9 MC Mixed 16.7 57% 19.9 GB/s	SC Read 16.2 SC Write 23.6 SC Mixed 21.6 58% 20.5 GB/s	Latency 65.2 61% 65.2 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 59.1% Great: 59%

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Gaming 48%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 40%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2/USB 3.1

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	92x
Core i5-4690KIntel $50Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	18x
Core i7-4790Intel $132Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	16x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	16x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	15x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	9x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	9x
860 QVO 1TBSamsung $100Bench 89%, 201,200 samples	8x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	6x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	11x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 51%, 21,220 samples	8x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 58%, 8,730 samples	6x

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Intel Core i5-13600K $270	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $388	WD Black SN850X M.2 1TB $90
Intel Core i5-12400F $110	Nvidia RTX 4070 $520	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $353