Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4

Performance Results


Gaming 60% Gunboat	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 50% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 88.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	62.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	85.8% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 (all builds)
Memory	10.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130905
Uptime	13.5 Days
Run Date	Oct 25 '17 at 20:53
Run Duration	141 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	12%

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PC Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4820K-$110 23,169 User benchmarks, average bench 72% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	88.4% Excellent	Memory 92.5 1-Core 123 2-Core 243 86% 153 Pts	4-Core 464 8-Core 606 68% 535 Pts	64-Core 606 38% 606 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 88.4% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Gigabyte(1458 371A) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	62.5% Good	Lighting 78.2 Reflection 79 Parallax 68.2 64% 75.1 fps	MRender 72.3 Gravity 71.8 Splatting 75 60% 73 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 62.5% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HyperX Fury 120GB-$160 11,403 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 112GB free Firmware: 60AABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (29^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 2811198 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 20547123544698 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 49 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 3 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 33 33 85901508641 (C2) HDA temperature 33 33 85901508641 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 2811198 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 2811198 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 2811198 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 94489280512 (E9) Unknown 0 0 18 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1 (F4) Unknown 100 100 131072	58.3% Above average	Read 263 Write 158 Mixed 198 46% 207 MB/s	4K Read 27 4K Write 76.3 4K Mixed 21.5 109% 41.6 MB/s	DQ Read 104 DQ Write 158 DQ Mixed 37.9 55% 99.9 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 58.3% Great: 75%
HyperX Savage 120GB-$80 7,194 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 17GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM02.H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3366 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 344 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 171 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2228328 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 156 (C2) HDA temperature 66 60 171800068130 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (E9) Unknown 100 100 4483 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3336 (F2) Unknown 100 100 6190 (F4) Unknown 100 100 34 (F5) Unknown 100 100 104 (F6) Unknown 100 100 1189056	85.8% Excellent	Read 526 Write 418 Mixed 461 104% 468 MB/s	4K Read 26.4 4K Write 78.7 4K Mixed 13.2 98% 39.4 MB/s	DQ Read 272 DQ Write 226 DQ Mixed 60.6 97% 186 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 85.8% Great: 104%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 373GB free Firmware: CC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 115661912 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2050 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 663862523 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 16030 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2003 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 88 88 12 (BC) Unknown 100 98 296357265486 (BD) vendor-specific 90 90 10 (BE) vendor-specific 69 61 555089951 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 604 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 78 78 44196 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 64424509471 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 3 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 84718229928777 (F1) Unknown 100 253 64559122430156 (F2) Unknown 100 253 7202918907396	87.4% Excellent	Read 153 Write 152 Mixed 124 107% 143 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.36 4K Mixed 0.32 94% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C10D3/ KHX1600C9D3/4 KHX1600C10D3/ KHX1600C9D3/4 16GB 166 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	82.5% Excellent	MC Read 30.2 MC Write 33.6 MC Mixed 30.2 90% 31.3 GB/s	SC Read 15.7 SC Write 16.1 SC Mixed 13.8 43% 15.2 GB/s	Latency 63.1 63% 63.1 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 82.5% Great: 99%

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

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 - $480

CPU
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	274x
Core i7-4930KIntel $100Bench 77%, 22,204 samples	195x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	187x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	58x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	48x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	47x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	45x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	26x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	21x

RAM
DDR3 1866 4x4GBAdataBench 68%, 420 samples	23x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 60%, 738 samples	16x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 67%, 1,867 samples	15x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $802

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $46

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