Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SOC Force

Performance Results


Gaming 46% Yacht	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 35% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (29th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 71 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 62.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	72.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	46.9% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Very high background CPU (57%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SOC Force (all builds)
Memory	1.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150919
Uptime	4.2 Days
Run Date	Apr 09 '18 at 03:41
Run Duration	265 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	57%

PC Performing below expectations (29^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	62.3% Good	Memory 84.1 1-Core 81.9 2-Core 168 66% 111 Pts	4-Core 220 8-Core 341 35% 281 Pts	64-Core 277 17% 277 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 62.3% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.24 Performing below potential (18^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	72.7% Very good	Lighting 92.1 Reflection 95.2 Parallax 94 75% 93.8 fps	MRender 82.8 Gravity 87.7 Splatting 80.3 68% 83.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 72.7% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 47GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 14588 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 78 (B1) Unknown 99 99 12 (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 52 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 24 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12303803910	76.8% Very good	Read 502 Write 404 Mixed 419 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 33.2 4K Write 32.1 4K Mixed 19.5 92% 28.3 MB/s	DQ Read 69.7 DQ Write 137 DQ Mixed 70.5 63% 92.6 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 76.8% Great: 134%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 31GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 24946 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 698 (B1) Unknown 70 70 353 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 64 49 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 272 (F1) Unknown 99 99 99859102343	46.9% Average	Read 469 Write 24.5 Mixed 48 38% 180 MB/s	4K Read 32 4K Write 30.8 4K Mixed 5.37 72% 22.7 MB/s	DQ Read 252 DQ Write 56.8 DQ Mixed 10.1 45% 106 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 46.9% Great: 118%
Crucial C300-CTFDDAC128MAG 128GB 2,094 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 24GB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd 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 32172 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1872 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 25 (AE) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 108 1 15345920773580 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 287 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 4294967168 (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 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 64 64 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	52.3% Above average	Read 341 Write 120 Mixed 111 41% 191 MB/s	4K Read 29.1 4K Write 71.5 4K Mixed 4.67 88% 35.1 MB/s	DQ Read 209 DQ Write 114 DQ Mixed 15.4 51% 113 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 52.3% Great: 62%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 120GB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 52439264 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10303 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 4483840727 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 24700 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 596 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 17181638688 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 49 705626144 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 11 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 54 54 93875 (C2) HDA temperature 32 51 8589934624 (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 113382841660119 (F1) Unknown 100 253 28441651768 (F2) Unknown 100 253 802298370395	77.7% Very good	Read 158 Write 113 Mixed 100 92% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.48 4K Mixed 0.17 63% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 77.7% Great: 96%
Seagate ST32000542AS 2TB-$100 19,960 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 37GB free Firmware: CC34 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 99 8605101 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 84 84 17117 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 57 57 287804103929 (09) Power-on hours count 61 61 34541 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2008 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 93 17181900836 (BD) vendor-specific 87 87 13 (BE) vendor-specific 68 49 655294496 (C2) HDA temperature 32 51 8589934624 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 44 30 8605101 (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 6429566081260 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2854355107 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3128394933	48.6% Average	Read 83.5 Write 85.7 Mixed 88.4 65% 85.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.29 4K Mixed 0.32 82% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 48.6% Great: 61%
SanDisk Ultra Fit 124GB 7,722 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 12GB free, PID 5583 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	34.6% Below average	Read 143 Write 38.2 Mixed 49.7 79% 77 MB/s	4K Read 4.04 4K Write 1.48 4K Mixed 0.58 85% 2.04 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 34.6% Great: 37%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 20,216 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	33.8% Below average	MC Read 10.2 MC Write 13.4 MC Mixed 10.6 33% 11.4 GB/s	SC Read 6.5 SC Write 10 SC Mixed 8.7 24% 8.4 GB/s	Latency 73.2 55% 73.2 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 33.8% Great: 86%

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Gaming 81%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 67%

Battle cruiser

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SOC Force - $123

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	61x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	19x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	12x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	14x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	13x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	8x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	12x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	5x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	5x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	6x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	6x
Ares DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 56%, 645 samples	4x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $1,001

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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) $37	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