Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing CPU, RAM
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


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.
Graphics	81.7% 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	77.2% 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.

Very high background CPU (65%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140319
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	Nov 07 '15 at 16:07
Run Duration	182 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	65%

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 i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		1-Core 78.2 2-Core 151 52% 115 Pts	4-Core 272 8-Core 538 48% 405 Pts	64-Core 540 33% 540 Pts
Poor: 56% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 2981) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.5598 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	81.7% Excellent	Lighting 116 Reflection 79.3 Parallax 71 95% 88.8 fps	MRender 77.1 Gravity 69.6 Splatting 62.6 56% 69.8 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 81.7% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Liteonit LCT-128 128GB 27 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 55GB free (System drive) Firmware: VQDC Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1068 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 318093 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1760 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 402166 (F2) Unknown 100 100 204406	77.2% Very good	Read 477 Write 197 Mixed 276 70% 317 MB/s	4K Read 29.5 4K Write 67.3 4K Mixed 31.4 121% 42.7 MB/s	DQ Read 228 DQ Write 184 DQ Mixed 52.9 81% 155 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 77.2% Great: 77%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 890GB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 171 167 4450 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 499 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7960 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 497 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 496 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 149 149 154311 (C2) HDA temperature 118 111 29 (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	75.6% Very good	Read 136 Write 127 Mixed 125 97% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 2.33 4K Mixed 0.2 85% 1 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 75.6% Great: 84%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 718GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 120022881 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3954 (05) Reallocated sector count 98 98 111 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 96110089 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 23079 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1976 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 1 3118213693439 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 60 572325917 (C2) HDA temperature 29 40 60129542173 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 33 12 120022881 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 106 78663 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -104316165656921 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2195691838 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1658473322	52.8% Above average	Read 101 Write 83.6 Mixed 97.5 71% 93.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.27 4K Mixed 0.42 94% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 52.8% Great: 68%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 188GB free Firmware: JC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 166275809 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1423 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2533070 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 17248 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1423 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 59 589234208 (C2) HDA temperature 32 41 68719476768 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 21 19 166275809 (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 87690347303630 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3470339290 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3897241715	62.1% Good	Read 124 Write 92.9 Mixed 76.4 73% 97.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.4 94% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 62.1% Great: 68%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 188GB free Firmware: 0A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 165 162 4716 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 490 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4982 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 490 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 489 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4774 (C2) HDA temperature 119 115 28 (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	44.4% Average	Read 76.9 Write 77.4 Mixed 65.5 55% 73.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 1.98 4K Mixed 0.26 99% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 44.4% Great: 84%

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Workstation 50%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 - $480

CPU
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	281x
Core i7-4930KIntel $88Bench 77%, 22,204 samples	196x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	187x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	58x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	55x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	47x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $79Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	45x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	26x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	21x

RAM
DDR3 1866 4x4GBAdataBench 68%, 420 samples	23x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 60%, 738 samples	16x
F3 DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 57%, 2,734 samples	16x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $801

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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PC Performing above expectations (68th percentile)

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PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)