Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 10% Tree trunk	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 9% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	9.12% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
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.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	7.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140515
Uptime	2 Days
Run Date	Jan 10 '21 at 16:11
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	ARG-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	80.9% Excellent	Memory 90.2 1-Core 114 2-Core 223 81% 142 Pts	4-Core 386 8-Core 598 61% 492 Pts	64-Core 600 37% 600 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 80.9% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R7 250X 12,863 User benchmarks, average bench 12% XFX(1682 7266) 2GB CLim: 1000 MHz, MLim: 667 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 20.11.2 Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile)	9.12% Terrible	Lighting 11.4 Reflection 13 Parallax 23.8 9% 16.1 fps	MRender 6.3 Gravity 16.1 Splatting 9.8 9% 10.7 fps
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 9.12% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 7GB free (System drive) Firmware: X31000RL Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 483 Write 376 Mixed 243 81% 368 MB/s	4K Read 31.3 4K Write 75.9 4K Mixed 37.9 136% 48.4 MB/s	DQ Read 348 DQ Write 252 DQ Mixed 227 189% 275 MB/s
Poor: 58% Great: 101%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 9GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 105 93 97 95 89 94 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	55% Above average	Read 95.7 Write 92.8 Mixed 70 SusWrite 95.5 65% 88.5 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 1 197% 1.47 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 55% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 77,652 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	60.1% Good	MC Read 21.6 MC Write 22 MC Mixed 18.4 59% 20.7 GB/s	SC Read 16.8 SC Write 21.3 SC Mixed 19.1 54% 19.1 GB/s	Latency 66.9 60% 66.9 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 60.1% Great: 63%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 - $169

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,219x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	633x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	396x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	479x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	200x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	198x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	160x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	76x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	69x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	136x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	99x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	96x

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Total price: $817

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 $179	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