Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 55% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (83rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 17 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	82.2% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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-Z97-HD3 (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150522
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Dec 09 '17 at 21:30
Run Duration	141 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	88.2% Excellent	Memory 92.9 1-Core 122 2-Core 251 87% 155 Pts	4-Core 482 8-Core 484 65% 483 Pts	64-Core 433 27% 433 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 88.2% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8598) CLim: 1949 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.59 Performing below potential (73^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.2% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 108 Parallax 94.7 84% 102 fps	MRender 96.4 Gravity 94.7 Splatting 96.1 78% 95.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82.2% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 233GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 519 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 183 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (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 58 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 30 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4362050149
Poor: 80% Great: 134%
Seagate Expansion Desk 2TB 12,762 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 1.5TB free Firmware: 9401 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 184 Mixed 161 129% 172 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.23 83% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 104%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 551GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 208578928 (03) Spinup time 99 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1108 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 8 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 190073084 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4117 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1094 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BC) Unknown 100 1 720 (BD) vendor-specific 94 94 6 (BE) vendor-specific 72 60 471138332 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 268 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5617 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 68719476764 (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 -3285649977531 (F1) Unknown 100 253 37758886082 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1252518977802	83.8% Excellent	Read 123 Write 168 Mixed 112 100% 134 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 5.21 4K Mixed 0.56 181% 2.11 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 83.8% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CT51264BD160BJ.M8F 1315 CT51264BA160BJ.C8 1315 CT51264BD160BJ.M8F 1315 CT51264BA160BJ.C8 16GB 9 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	60% Good	MC Read 21.3 MC Write 22.6 MC Mixed 17.7 59% 20.5 GB/s	SC Read 14 SC Write 21.9 SC Mixed 20.3 54% 18.7 GB/s	Latency 62.2 64% 62.2 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 60% Great: 60%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3 - $102

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	616x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	471x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	418x

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 $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