Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 89.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	84.4% 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	120% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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-Z97X-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	11.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151107
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 04 '18 at 01:44
Run Duration	184 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	12%

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PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89.2% Excellent	Memory 97 1-Core 133 2-Core 258 92% 163 Pts	4-Core 439 8-Core 681 69% 560 Pts	64-Core 691 43% 691 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 89.2% Great: 87%

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: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2177 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	84.4% Excellent	Lighting 105 Reflection 113 Parallax 96.8 86% 105 fps	MRender 101 Gravity 97.7 Splatting 100 82% 99.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SHSS37A480G 480GB 14,802 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 590GB free Firmware: SAFM00.U Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^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 11501 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1029 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 554 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1179725 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 422 (C2) HDA temperature 71 42 249109217309 (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 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 7778 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 5792 (F2) Unknown 100 100 9206 (F4) Unknown 100 100 18 (F5) Unknown 100 100 77 (F6) Unknown 100 100 2468672	98% Outstanding	Read 457 Write 458 Mixed 447 102% 454 MB/s	4K Read 28.8 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 36 144% 56 MB/s	DQ Read 28.6 DQ Write 318 DQ Mixed 22.9 62% 123 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 98% Great: 110%
Adata Premier SP550 960GB-$109 1,022 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 474GB free Firmware: O1126A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 270 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 590 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 388 (A3) Unknown 100 100 89 (A4) Unknown 100 100 23342 (A5) Unknown 100 100 21 (A6) Unknown 100 100 4 (A7) Unknown 100 100 5 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 6 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 38 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 128431 (F2) Unknown 100 100 208492 (F5) Unknown 100 100 186736	59.5% Above average	Read 428 Write 260 Mixed 248 69% 312 MB/s	4K Read 26.4 4K Write 55.7 4K Mixed 12.5 86% 31.5 MB/s	DQ Read 27.5 DQ Write 52 DQ Mixed 12.1 17% 30.5 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 59.5% Great: 95%
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 116GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q 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 97 97 13645 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1323 (B1) Unknown 96 96 83 (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 65 34 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 78 (F1) Unknown 99 99 16916283516
Poor: 64% Great: 115%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 92GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	120% Outstanding	Read 715 Write 528 Mixed 554 133% 599 MB/s	4K Read 50.5 4K Write 86 4K Mixed 23.6 152% 53.3 MB/s	DQ Read 389 DQ Write 302 DQ Mixed 23.6 105% 238 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 236%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2016)-$114 34,353 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2.5TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 64 196064265 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 693 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 92885151 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 -13189844559439 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 197 (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 75 52 420741145 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 541 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 17142 (C2) HDA temperature 25 48 73014444057 (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 124240518975200 (F1) Unknown 100 253 7592031487 (F2) Unknown 100 253 7067057396	89.1% Excellent	Read 158 Write 152 Mixed 130 110% 147 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.22 76% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 89.1% Great: 105%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GB 7,967 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	74.2% Very good	MC Read 27.2 MC Write 27.5 MC Mixed 21.8 73% 25.5 GB/s	SC Read 19.5 SC Write 24.4 SC Mixed 24.3 65% 22.7 GB/s	Latency 50.5 79% 50.5 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 74.2% Great: 79%

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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 5 - $162

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	842x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	347x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	156x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	317x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	112x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	108x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	96x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	61x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $37Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	41x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	99x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	66x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	63x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $810

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 $182	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) $30	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