Gigabyte GA-G1.Sniper Z97

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 83.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	92.2% 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	87.2% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-G1.Sniper Z97 (all builds)
Memory	11.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140530
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 13 '17 at 14:23
Run Duration	149 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	83.3% Excellent	Memory 96.1 1-Core 115 2-Core 223 83% 145 Pts	4-Core 382 8-Core 594 60% 488 Pts	64-Core 606 38% 606 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Zotac(19DA 1396) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1607 MHz, MLim: 1805 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	92.2% Outstanding	Lighting 121 Reflection 120 Parallax 109 99% 117 fps	MRender 96.3 Gravity 105 Splatting 91 79% 97.4 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 92.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 120GB-$35 20,420 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 30GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1408 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 284 (B1) Unknown 96 96 16 (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 57 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 45 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4627328960	87.2% Excellent	Read 494 Write 272 Mixed 276 76% 348 MB/s	4K Read 39.4 4K Write 65.5 4K Mixed 27.8 130% 44.3 MB/s	DQ Read 357 DQ Write 184 DQ Mixed 65.2 103% 202 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 87.2% Great: 110%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$75 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 219742832 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1054 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 46746196 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1633 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 855 (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 71 57 487784477 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 142 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3307 (C2) HDA temperature 29 43 68719476765 (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 66541928319005 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6624182943 (F2) Unknown 100 253 88354397177	93% Outstanding	Read 161 Write 164 Mixed 149 119% 158 MB/s	4K Read 0.15 4K Write 0.55 4K Mixed 0.09 26% 0.26 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 93% Great: 108%
Samsung HM500JI 500GB-$100 8,795 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 64GB free Firmware: 2AC101C4 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 90 90 3070 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6174 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 10794 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 229 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5782 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1835 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 51 219044053017 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 1276 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 229 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 73 73 279447	28.2% Poor	Read 54 Write 44.3 Mixed 45.9 36% 48.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.33 4K Write 1.14 4K Mixed 0.25 62% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 28.2% Great: 47%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D18ADS3.16FE 2x8GB 2,913 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	68.1% Good	MC Read 24.5 MC Write 24.6 MC Mixed 20.9 67% 23.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 21.5 SC Mixed 23.2 60% 20.9 GB/s	Latency 53.8 74% 53.8 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 68.1% Great: 72%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-G1.Sniper Z97

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	184x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	87x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	70x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	66x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	36x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	29x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	23x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	19x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	18x

RAM
RipjawsX DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 54%, 8,026 samples	31x
BLS4G3D169DS3.16FE 4x4GBCrucialBench 59%, 371 samples	28x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	25x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $275	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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