Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3

Performance Results


Gaming 62% Destroyer	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 49% Yacht


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 83.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	71.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	79.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3 (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1024 x 768 - 32 Bit colors, 1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150731
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 29 '17 at 06:41
Run Duration	111 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	14%

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 i5-4690-$52 73,695 User benchmarks, average bench 67% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	83.4% Excellent	Memory 92.4 1-Core 112 2-Core 223 81% 142 Pts	4-Core 431 8-Core 428 58% 430 Pts	64-Core 437 27% 437 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 83.4% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Nvidia(10DE 1116) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71.7% Very good	Lighting 91.9 Reflection 96.7 Parallax 83.7 75% 90.8 fps	MRender 83.5 Gravity 85 Splatting 74.1 66% 80.8 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 71.7% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 15GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7604 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 860 (B1) Unknown 97 97 36 (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 68 47 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 214 (F1) Unknown 99 99 17225374897	79.4% Very good	Read 489 Write 339 Mixed 351 87% 393 MB/s	4K Read 34 4K Write 76.9 4K Mixed 24.9 124% 45.3 MB/s	DQ Read 29.7 DQ Write 68.6 DQ Mixed 16.7 22% 38.4 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 79.4% Great: 118%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 939GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 136233416 (03) Spinup time 91 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 70 70 31514 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 12161800 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15207 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 735 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032834 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 49 4732616730 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 64 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 63 63 75058 (C2) HDA temperature 26 51 -140737488355302 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -4183298143422 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4597346309 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4844820702	67.8% Good	Read 119 Write 117 Mixed 104 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 0.9 4K Mixed 0.2 56% 0.5 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 67.8% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-049.A00LF 2x8GB 98 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	62.4% Good	MC Read 22.7 MC Write 23.4 MC Mixed 18.3 61% 21.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 21 SC Mixed 19.9 56% 19.5 GB/s	Latency 63.2 63% 63.2 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 62.4% Great: 62%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3 - $102

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	616x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	470x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	416x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	291x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	204x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	156x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	77x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	70x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	63x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	81x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	77x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	38x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $750

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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