Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 82% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 90.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	87.5% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit couleurs, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 21 '17 at 07:58
Run Duration	196 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (68^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 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.2% Outstanding	Memory 98.1 1-Core 128 2-Core 246 89% 157 Pts	4-Core 443 8-Core 686 70% 564 Pts	64-Core 698 43% 698 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 87%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Gigabyte(1458 D000) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4531 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 3% Great: 3%
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 119D) CLim: 1949 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	87.5% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 112 Parallax 99.9 90% 107 fps	MRender 99.1 Gravity 102 Splatting 103 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba Q300 480GB-$152 5,920 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 258GB free Firmware: SAFM12.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 87 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 21 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 199 199 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C2) HDA temperature 74 65 150324903962	70.9% Very good	Read 504 Write 266 Mixed 263 76% 344 MB/s	4K Read 30.6 4K Write 58.6 4K Mixed 7.74 87% 32.3 MB/s	DQ Read 315 DQ Write 144 DQ Mixed 34.8 78% 165 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 99%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 766GB free (System drive) Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 69971639 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2897 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 4499007846 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7674 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2747 (B7) Unknown 79 79 21 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BC) Unknown 100 98 128851050548 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 52 403963928 (C2) HDA temperature 24 48 51539607576 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 53 28 69971639 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 47 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -94222992525040 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3585071160 (F2) Unknown 100 253 87290038	57.3% Above average	Read 106 Write 93.3 Mixed 102 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 0.97 4K Mixed 0.31 74% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 57.3% Great: 68%
WD Blue 320GB (2010)-$40 13,720 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 182GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 26 (03) Spinup time 154 137 3266 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2465 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3049 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2162 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1093 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1371 (C2) HDA temperature 116 96 27 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 647 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 1	53.1% Above average	Read 101 Write 84 Mixed 89.7 69% 91.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.41 96% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 53.1% Great: 65%
VB0250EAVER 250GB 1,795 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 57GB free Firmware: HPG9 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 93875736 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 871 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4824500 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 335 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 438 (B4) Unknown 100 100 558988317 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 5 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 64 420872217 (C2) HDA temperature 25 40 34359738393 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 67 58 93875736 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	50.3% Above average	Read 91.9 Write 83.4 Mixed 99.6 69% 91.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.29 75% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 50.3% Great: 60%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 4x4GB 4,979 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	86.6% Excellent	MC Read 31 MC Write 33.5 MC Mixed 26.5 87% 30.3 GB/s	SC Read 22.6 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 26.5 70% 24.5 GB/s	Latency 45.5 88% 45.5 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 86.6% Great: 103%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 - $169

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,220x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	633x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	398x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	481x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	200x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	198x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	160x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	76x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	69x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	136x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	99x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	97x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $817

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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