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Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	87% 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	35.8% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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	Windows 11 is the most recent version of Windows.

High background CPU (23%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2 (all builds)
Memory	27.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 11
BIOS Date	20140930
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 24 '24 at 09:59
Run Duration	122 Seconds
Run User	NZL-User
Background CPU	23%

PC Performing above expectations (66^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	83.2% Excellent	Memory 91.4 1-Core 112 2-Core 210 80% 138 Pts	4-Core 405 8-Core 589 62% 497 Pts	64-Core 625 39% 625 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 83.2% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX Vega-64-$400 91,676 User benchmarks, average bench 87% AMD(1002 6B76) CLim: 1630 MHz, MLim: 945 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 22.20.27.09 Performing below potential (59^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	87% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 108 Parallax 188 91% 136 fps	MRender 92.5 Gravity 131 Splatting 75.4 80% 99.7 fps
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 94%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Crucial BX500 480GB-$35 83,298 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 339GB free (System drive) Firmware: M6CR022 SusWrite @10s intervals: 4.8 4.4 411 217 6.2 6.6 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	35.8% Below average	Read 487 Write 420 Mixed 12.2 SusWrite 108 57% 257 MB/s	4K Read 21.7 4K Write 6.2 4K Mixed 0.4 37% 9.43 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 35.8% Great: 92%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 931GB free Firmware: 2BA30001 SusWrite @10s intervals: 109 108 108 108 107 109 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	61% Good	Read 104 Write 71.8 Mixed 58.7 SusWrite 108 63% 85.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.7 130% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 61% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-1600C11-8GNT Kingston KHX1866C10D3/8G 0420 F3-1600C11-8GNT Kingston KHX1866C10D3/8G 32GB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 1600, 1333, 1600, 1333 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	57.2% Above average	MC Read 21.4 MC Write 21.1 MC Mixed 16.3 56% 19.6 GB/s	SC Read 15.7 SC Write 22.3 SC Mixed 20.1 55% 19.4 GB/s	Latency 79.6 50% 79.6 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 57.2% Great: 57%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

SkillBench Score 0: 0P 0R 0G 0B (High Scores)

Measures user input accuracy relative to the given hardware

Score	Hit Rate	Shots	EFps	0.1% Low	Refresh Rate	Screen	Resolution	Monitor
0%	0%	3	195	30	60	24.1"	1920 1177	HWP326F HP E242

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Typical SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK 2 Builds (Compare 747 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

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	389x
Core i5-4690KIntel $43Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	111x
Core i7-4790Intel $115Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	105x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	110x
GTX 1070Nvidia $200Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	55x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	42x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	57x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	35x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	32x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	55x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	23x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	23x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $831

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Intel Core i5-13600K $225	Nvidia RTX 4070 $500	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $350