Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 61% Destroyer	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 48% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 84.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	68.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	47.5% 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.

Run History

8 years ago, 8 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150129
Uptime	5.1 Days
Run Date	May 22 '16 at 13:44
Run Duration	161 Seconds
Run User	ISR-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (78^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-$50 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	84.8% Excellent	Memory 95.9 1-Core 107 2-Core 223 82% 142 Pts	4-Core 427 8-Core 428 57% 428 Pts	64-Core 430 27% 430 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 84.8% Great: 82%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Gigabyte(1458 D000) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4331 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 3% Great: 3%
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Gigabyte(1458 367C) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6519 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	68.3% Good	Lighting 88.2 Reflection 86.4 Parallax 83.4 72% 86 fps	MRender 82 Gravity 75.9 Splatting 69 61% 75.6 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 68.3% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 60GB-$76 24,219 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 27GB free (System drive) Firmware: 580ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 10294532 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 -89833535958903 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 536 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 112 (B1) Unknown 0 0 98 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 36 48 85902491684 (C2) HDA temperature 36 48 85902491684 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 10294532 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 10294532 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 10294532 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4588 (EA) Unknown 0 0 4434 (F1) Unknown 0 0 4434 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4068	47.5% Average	Read 418 Write 74.7 Mixed 117 44% 203 MB/s	4K Read 23.2 4K Write 70.2 4K Mixed 10.3 85% 34.5 MB/s	DQ Read 21.3 DQ Write 59.4 DQ Mixed 9.1 16% 29.9 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 47.5% Great: 69%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 67GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 108595000 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 721 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 71949993 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4200 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 534 (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 56 588775458 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 72 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4904 (C2) HDA temperature 34 44 85899345954 (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 3328599658250 (F1) Unknown 100 253 61400297278 (F2) Unknown 100 253 175270926436	89.2% Excellent	Read 159 Write 151 Mixed 105 103% 138 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 5.46 4K Mixed 0.66 200% 2.25 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 89.2% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GB 11,630 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	74.5% Very good	MC Read 26.5 MC Write 28.1 MC Mixed 24.5 75% 26.4 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 20.8 SC Mixed 21.8 58% 20.2 GB/s	Latency 54.2 74% 54.2 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 74.5% Great: 79%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 - $162

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	856x
Core i5-4690KIntel $50Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	349x
Core i7-4790Intel $132Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	158x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	321x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	113x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	110x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	97x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	61x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $36Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	41x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	100x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	67x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	64x

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