Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 48% Yacht	Desktop 70% Battle cruiser	Workstation 36% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (37th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 63 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 70.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	66.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	71.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (81%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	6.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	4.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 28 '18 at 06:47
Run Duration	183 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	81%

PC Performing below expectations (37^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 Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	70.5% Very good	Memory 69.8 1-Core 91.7 2-Core 113 57% 91.6 Pts	4-Core 419 8-Core 368 54% 393 Pts	64-Core 204 13% 204 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 70.5% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$499 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 377A) ≥ 4GB; GV-N108TGAMINGOC BLACK-11GD CLim: 1949 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.35 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	66.8% Good	Lighting 75.8 Reflection 117 Parallax 134 62% 109 fps	MRender 84.1 Gravity 119 Splatting 81.3 77% 94.8 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 66.8% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M500 240GB-$54 31,779 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 46GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7767 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 161 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 85 85 476 (AE) Unknown 100 100 57 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4066 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 67 57 184683593761 (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 85 85 15 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 42000879885 (F7) Unknown 100 100 693420 (F8) Unknown 100 100 1902543657	71.4% Very good	Read 496 Write 268 Mixed 347 82% 370 MB/s	4K Read 16.7 4K Write 63.1 4K Mixed 19.6 84% 33.1 MB/s	DQ Read 221 DQ Write 227 DQ Mixed 46 84% 165 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 71.4% Great: 91%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 103 99 5271656 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 275 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 3648 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 265 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 5 (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 66 62 639172642 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 390 (C2) HDA temperature 34 40 90194313250 (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 64561948393556 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6122750 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3798126	100% Outstanding	Read 190 Write 160 Mixed 155 126% 168 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.77 4K Mixed 0.23 89% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 114%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 214GB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 260 (03) Spinup time 179 173 2008 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4884 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 38 38 45965 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 268 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 98 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4785 (C2) HDA temperature 108 96 35 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	63.1% Good	Read 114 Write 106 Mixed 84.3 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.28 86% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 63.1% Great: 109%
Samsun HD320KJ 320GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 170GB free Firmware: CP10 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 5312 (04) Start/Stop count 77 77 24080 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 58476 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2948 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 5461578 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 7 (BE) vendor-specific 71 55 29 (C2) HDA temperature 154 100 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 5461578 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 253 253 0	31.6% Below average	Read 48.2 Write 61.9 Mixed 55 42% 55 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 0.98 4K Mixed 0.3 67% 0.55 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 31.6% Great: 53%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 34,385 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	38% Below average	MC Read 10.7 MC Write 16.9 MC Mixed 12.7 38% 13.4 GB/s	SC Read 7 SC Write 11.9 SC Mixed 11.4 29% 10.1 GB/s	Latency 102 39% 102 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 38% Great: 63%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 - $175

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	691x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	194x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	101x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	147x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	81x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	65x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	49x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	36x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	32x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	51x
HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GBKingstonBench 61%, 11,630 samples	40x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	36x

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Total price: $823

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $131	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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