Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 85.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	77.2% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	20GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 20GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	15.7 GB free of 20 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 28 '17 at 23:44
Run Duration	181 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	85.4% Excellent	Memory 84.7 1-Core 127 2-Core 253 86% 155 Pts	4-Core 497 8-Core 497 66% 497 Pts	64-Core 494 31% 494 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 85.4% Great: 82%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 530 Series 240GB-$149 16,872 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 30GB free (System drive) Firmware: DC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -116994909139167 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3317 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 200 (B7) Unknown 100 100 9 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 26 53 64427982874 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 200 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 958822 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 48 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 94 94 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 958822 (F2) Unknown 100 100 904125 (F9) Unknown 100 100 87059	77.2% Very good	Read 471 Write 221 Mixed 255 69% 316 MB/s	4K Read 29.4 4K Write 93.6 4K Mixed 21.5 122% 48.2 MB/s	DQ Read 233 DQ Write 180 DQ Mixed 48.3 79% 154 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 77.2% Great: 91%
Seagate ST33000651NS 3TB 6,381 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 2TB free Firmware: G009 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 81 63 153466023 (03) Spinup time 94 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 774 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 4878297636 (09) Power-on hours count 61 61 34536 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 766 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 91 91 9 (BE) vendor-specific 67 54 555089953 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 150 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1636 (C2) HDA temperature 33 46 77309411361 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 31 7 153466023 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	77.2% Very good	Read 134 Write 135 Mixed 121 98% 130 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.99 4K Mixed 0.62 132% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 77.2% Great: 86%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 120GB free Firmware: CC45 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 114 99 82061224 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4443 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 19236749 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7065 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2873 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 73 57 454230043 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 231 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 17969 (C2) HDA temperature 27 43 55834574875 (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 93810675684233 (F1) Unknown 100 253 17216843403 (F2) Unknown 100 253 41172970304	63.4% Good	Read 118 Write 103 Mixed 130 89% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.16 67% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 48GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 93289805 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 7046 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 11785314 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5763 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2850 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 46 487915549 (C2) HDA temperature 29 54 64424509469 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 31 21 93289805 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 14 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -83949430753677 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1454152181 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2802786745
Poor: 28% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CM3X2G1600C9DHX 0215 CM3X2G1600C9DHX 0420 F3-12800CL10-8GBXL 0420 F3-12800CL10-8GBXL 20GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 1066, 1066, 1066, 1066 MHz 2048, 2048, 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	31% Below average	MC Read 10.1 MC Write 10.3 MC Mixed 9.3 28% 9.9 GB/s	SC Read 8.8 SC Write 9.9 SC Mixed 9.9 27% 9.53 GB/s	Latency 72.3 55% 72.3 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 31% Great: 31%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 - $169

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,222x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	634x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	400x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	482x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	200x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	199x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	160x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	76x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $75Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	69x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	137x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	99x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	97x

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Total price: $817

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) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16