Gigabyte GA-Z87X-SLI

Performance Results

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


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z87X-SLI (all builds)
Memory	8.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131008
Uptime	14.5 Days
Run Date	Feb 16 '18 at 00:24
Run Duration	112 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing as expected (40^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 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	75.5% Very good	Memory 90.3 1-Core 100 2-Core 189 74% 126 Pts	4-Core 328 8-Core 510 52% 419 Pts	64-Core 558 34% 558 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 75.5% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% MSI(1462 3281) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.77 Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Lighting 53.5 131% 53.5 fps
Poor: 51% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 343GB free Firmware: 521ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 -31284541762346 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2610 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 298 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 32 42 77312163872 (C2) HDA temperature 32 42 77312163872 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 31767 (EA) Unknown 0 0 31128 (F1) Unknown 0 0 31128 (F2) Unknown 0 0 16507	12.7% Very poor	Read 126 Write 118 Mixed 145 29% 130 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.22 2% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 12.7% Great: 73%
Seagate Desktop HDD 1TB (2013) 2,070 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 890GB free Firmware: CC93 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 222595862 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 12189 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 62 41432738 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14400 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3105 (B7) Unknown 56 56 44 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 93 4295688224 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 44 56423153697 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 423 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 16192 (C2) HDA temperature 33 56 60129542177 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 23 5 222595862 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 5 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 63904818410899 (F1) Unknown 100 253 622564320 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1360164377	62.2% Good	Read 109 Write 108 Mixed 98.8 79% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.54 124% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 62.2% Great: 71%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 869GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 172408240 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6633 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 290642625 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 21536 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2584 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 25 8590066346 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 63 55 638844965 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 265 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 37 37 126246 (C2) HDA temperature 37 45 68719476773 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 11 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -63419487079042 (F1) Unknown 100 253 85672549181 (F2) Unknown 100 253 121956963279	86.6% Excellent	Read 157 Write 145 Mixed 115 104% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.27 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.21 60% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 86.6% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C9D3/8GX KHX2400C11D3/4GX KHX2400C11D3/4GX 16GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (30^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	38.2% Below average	MC Read 13.6 MC Write 13.2 MC Mixed 11 36% 12.6 GB/s	SC Read 10.5 SC Write 11.3 SC Mixed 11.8 32% 11.2 GB/s	Latency 66.7 60% 66.7 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 38.2% Great: 86%

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

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 80%

Battleship

Workstation 35%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z87X-SLI

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	26x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	17x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	8x

GPU
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	7x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	7x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	6x

SSD
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	7x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	4x
LCS-128M6S 128GBLiteonitBench 76%, 1,777 samples	4x

RAM
HMT41GU7AFR8A-PB 2x8GBHynixBench 55%, 367 samples	5x
Ballistix Sport DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCrucialBench 56%, 44,086 samples	3x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2133 C11 4x4GBCorsairBench 62%, 641 samples	3x

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Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $345

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 $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