Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SOC Force

Performance Results


Gaming 37% Jet ski	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 32% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 87.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	37.7% 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)
Boot Drive	51.5% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 9 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SOC Force (all builds)
Memory	27.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140529
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 15 '17 at 01:57
Run Duration	198 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	8%

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PC Performing as expected (45^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 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	87.9% Excellent	Memory 91.1 1-Core 128 2-Core 258 89% 159 Pts	4-Core 456 8-Core 693 71% 574 Pts	64-Core 698 43% 698 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 480-$75 261,163 User benchmarks, average bench 46% Gigabyte(1458 22D0) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1290 MHz, MLim: 2000 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.4.2 Performing below potential (12^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	37.7% Below average	Lighting 41.8 Reflection 67.6 Parallax 57.5 34% 55.6 fps	MRender 68 Gravity 41.1 Splatting 55.5 45% 54.9 fps
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 37.7% Great: 53%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 1TB-$199 23,857 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 791GB free Firmware: EXT0CB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5626 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 969 (B1) Unknown 99 99 6 (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 52 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 6 (EB) Unknown 99 99 32 (F1) Unknown 99 99 14059834386	89.2% Excellent	Read 498 Write 340 Mixed 311 85% 383 MB/s	4K Read 37.7 4K Write 72.9 4K Mixed 25.1 128% 45.2 MB/s	DQ Read 283 DQ Write 195 DQ Mixed 72.9 99% 184 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 89.2% Great: 126%
OCZ Agility 3 240GB-$199 10,165 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 119GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 90 90 10936734 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 58617713670948 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2985 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 94 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 10936734 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 10936734 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 10936734 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 28312 (EA) Unknown 0 0 27291 (F1) Unknown 0 0 27291 (F2) Unknown 0 0 43948	51.5% Above average	Read 194 Write 164 Mixed 133 36% 164 MB/s	4K Read 21.1 4K Write 92.9 4K Mixed 13.3 98% 42.4 MB/s	DQ Read 107 DQ Write 138 DQ Mixed 43.2 55% 96.3 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 51.5% Great: 66%
Samsung 840 Evo 1TB-$199 23,857 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 105GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5689 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 501 (B1) Unknown 97 97 27 (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 79 46 21 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 97 (F1) Unknown 99 99 36131218136	86.3% Excellent	Read 495 Write 341 Mixed 301 84% 379 MB/s	4K Read 37.3 4K Write 75.8 4K Mixed 18.9 121% 44 MB/s	DQ Read 284 DQ Write 200 DQ Mixed 73.6 100% 186 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 86.3% Great: 126%
Crucial M4 256GB-$218 17,938 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 82GB free Firmware: 040H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8159 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2367 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 47 (AE) Unknown 100 100 141 (B5) Unknown 100 100 4441012175638 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 80 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	69% Good	Read 489 Write 268 Mixed 186 69% 314 MB/s	4K Read 20.4 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 5.93 92% 42.7 MB/s	DQ Read 125 DQ Write 212 DQ Mixed 6.11 50% 114 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 74%
WD Blue 4TB (2015)-$85 124,615 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 3TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 177 8083 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 295 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 476 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 109 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 11 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2066 (C2) HDA temperature 129 120 23 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	76.7% Very good	Read 129 Write 138 Mixed 102 92% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.92 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 0.29 119% 1.27 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 76.7% Great: 101%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsZ DDR3 2133 C11 4x8GB 284 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	58.5% Above average	MC Read 21.5 MC Write 20.9 MC Mixed 16.4 56% 19.6 GB/s	SC Read 16.9 SC Write 23.5 SC Mixed 21 58% 20.5 GB/s	Latency 65.5 61% 65.5 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 58.5% Great: 123%

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Desktop 84%

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Workstation 67%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SOC Force - $123

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	61x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	19x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	12x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	14x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	13x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	8x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	12x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	5x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	5x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	6x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	6x
Ares DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 56%, 645 samples	4x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $1,001

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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