Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark 1 Motherboard Review

3DMark

We used 3DMark‘s ‘Fire Strike’ benchmark which is designed to be used on gaming PCs. We opted for the Normal setting, NOT the Extreme mode.

Sandra Processor Arithmetic

Sandra Memory Bandwidth

Performance of Asus' Sabertooth Z97 Mark 1 is where we would expect it to be for system-related benchmarks. Sandra's Processor Arithmetic test and 3DMark sit the Asus board in middle-place in our charts.

Memory bandwidth performance of the Sabertooth Z97 Mark 1 is a particular strength. We have observed better-than-average memory bandwidth performance from Asus LGA 1150 boards many times in the past. The 2-5% performance boost could be related to Asus' T-topology implementation for the DIMM slots.

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