Gigabyte GA-H97N

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 72.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	103% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	110% 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.

Very high background CPU (62%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H97N (all builds)
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140610
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 13 '18 at 10:56
Run Duration	138 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	62%

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PC Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790S-$60 13,224 User benchmarks, average bench 72% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	72.1% Very good	Memory 89 1-Core 74.1 2-Core 199 69% 121 Pts	4-Core 299 8-Core 446 46% 372 Pts	64-Core 454 28% 454 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3774) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 416.34 Performing below potential (61^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	103% Outstanding	Lighting 132 Reflection 149 Parallax 137 108% 140 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 128 Splatting 109 96% 117 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandisk Ultra II 500GB 3,299 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 310GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41110WD SusWrite @10s intervals: 381 309 261 299 291 283 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	110% Outstanding	Read 500 Write 478 Mixed 342 SusWrite 304 91% 406 MB/s	4K Read 39.3 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 50.1 185% 68.6 MB/s	DQ Read 357 DQ Write 306 DQ Mixed 250 210% 304 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 109%
Seagate Barracuda 8TB (2017)-$87 42,465 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 6.5TB free Firmware: 0001 SusWrite @10s intervals: 143 182 182 181 181 183 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	91.5% Outstanding	Read 142 Write 151 Mixed 65.8 SusWrite 175 97% 134 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 5.2 4K Mixed 0.8 239% 2.43 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 91.5% Great: 90%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 636GB free Firmware: 2AR20003 SusWrite @10s intervals: 73 92 92 92 92 92 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	51.7% Above average	Read 91 Write 38.2 Mixed 41.5 SusWrite 89.1 48% 64.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.8 143% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 51.7% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 122,541 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	58.6% Above average	MC Read 21.3 MC Write 21.7 MC Mixed 18.4 58% 20.5 GB/s	SC Read 14.2 SC Write 19.4 SC Mixed 17.3 48% 17 GB/s	Latency 68.5 58% 68.5 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 58.6% Great: 72%

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Typical GA-H97N Builds (Compare 42 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 7%

Tree trunk

Desktop 59%

Gunboat

Workstation 6%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97N

CPU
Core i5-4440Intel $128Bench 61%, 81,111 samples	7x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	5x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	4x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	7x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	4x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	3x

SSD
SSDNow UV400 120GBKingston $35Bench 67%, 80,916 samples	4x
HyperX 3K 120GBKingston $100Bench 74%, 46,066 samples	2x
Vertex 4 128GBOCZ $215Bench 88%, 19,372 samples	2x

RAM
99U5471-052.A00LF 2x8GBKingstonBench 47%, 2,479 samples	3x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	2x
99U5474-028.A00LF 2x4GBKingstonBench 44%, 3,493 samples	2x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $178

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	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