Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD7 TH-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 60% Destroyer	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 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 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 86.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	67.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	61.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

System	Gigabyte Z97X-UD7 TH
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD7 TH-CF (all builds)
Memory	27.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150919
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Mar 25 '18 at 15:16
Run Duration	200 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	9%

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PC Performing below expectations (40^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 above expectations (93^rd percentile)	86.1% Excellent	Memory 92.8 1-Core 130 2-Core 248 88% 157 Pts	4-Core 428 8-Core 667 68% 547 Pts	64-Core 674 42% 674 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 2151 MHz, MLim: 2114 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	67.9% Good	Lighting 79.9 Reflection 94 Parallax 74.6 65% 82.8 fps	MRender 92.6 Gravity 83.3 Splatting 91.5 73% 89.2 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 67.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M4 128GB-$116 34,516 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 34GB free Firmware: 040H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st 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 9328 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2330 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 42 (AE) Unknown 100 100 642 (B5) Unknown 100 100 14920762460882 (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 81 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 38 (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 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	37% Below average	Read 351 Write 171 Mixed 230 55% 250 MB/s	4K Read 22.7 4K Write 6.07 4K Mixed 5.2 44% 11.3 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 37% Great: 72%
M4-CT128M4SSD2 240GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 31GB free Firmware: MU03 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (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 19157 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3839 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 39 (AE) Unknown 100 100 2006 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4066 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 77 58 184682938391 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 16 (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 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 7942550786 (F7) Unknown 100 100 251013896 (F8) Unknown 100 100 342057634	45.9% Average	Read 263 Write 202 Mixed 228 51% 231 MB/s	4K Read 21.9 4K Write 41 4K Mixed 14.1 73% 25.7 MB/s	DQ Read 22.2 DQ Write 40 DQ Mixed 13.3 15% 25.2 MB/s
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 45.9% Great: 100%
Adata SP900 256GB-$300 9,430 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 27GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.8.2 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 95 95 8639405630 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 -55009941114307 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3201 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 2251 (B1) Unknown 0 0 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 29 42 42952425501 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 109 109 8639405630 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 109 109 8639405630 (CC) Soft ECC correction 109 109 8639405630 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 25769803777 (E9) Unknown 0 0 22002 (EA) Unknown 0 0 20321 (F1) Unknown 0 0 20321 (F2) Unknown 0 0 17754	61.1% Good	Read 491 Write 249 Mixed 248 72% 329 MB/s	4K Read 6.21 4K Write 97.9 4K Mixed 9.51 73% 37.9 MB/s	DQ Read 13.6 DQ Write 217 DQ Mixed 3.14 36% 77.9 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 61.1% Great: 89%
Toshiba X300 6TB-$78 5,594 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 2TB free Firmware: FS2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^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 5622 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 332 (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 94 94 2478 (0A) Spinup retry count 106 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 331 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 7 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 261 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 591 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 146029543449 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 95 95 2390 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 556 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	94.1% Outstanding	Read 163 Write 164 Mixed 158 122% 162 MB/s	4K Read 4.47 4K Write 2.01 4K Mixed 0.33 260% 2.27 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 94.1% Great: 109%
Toshiba MK2555GSX 250GB-$77 5,017 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 50GB free Firmware: FG001A Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 823 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 12328 (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 14 14 34669 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2535 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 3 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 512 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 55058 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 180388823062 (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 200 200 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 14 (DE) Loaded hours 98 98 1032 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 342 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	31.1% Below average	Read 49.3 Write 58.9 Mixed 43.2 38% 50.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.29 4K Write 1.07 4K Mixed 0.25 60% 0.54 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 31.1% Great: 41%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR3 2133 2OZ Kingston KHX1600C10D3/8G 0420 DDR3 2133 2OZ Kingston KHX1600C10D3/8G 32GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	56.6% Above average	MC Read 20.4 MC Write 20.3 MC Mixed 16.2 54% 19 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 22.2 SC Mixed 19.1 54% 18.9 GB/s	Latency 62.5 64% 62.5 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 56.6% Great: 75%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD7 TH-CF

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	96x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	21x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	9x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	17x
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	14x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	13x

SSD
840 Evo 1TBSamsung $199Bench 105%, 23,857 samples	11x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	6x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	5x

RAM
BLT8G3D1608DT1TX0. 2x8GBCrucialBench 53%, 7,008 samples	15x
BLT8G3D1608DT1TX0. 4x8GBCrucialBench 53%, 1,529 samples	8x
1600 CL9 Series 4x8GBUnknownBench 57%, 1,306 samples	6x

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Total price: $747

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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 $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16