Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 89% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 102% UFO	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 96%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	88.5% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	275% 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160303
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 30 '16 at 12:21
Run Duration	180 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (74^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, 4 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96% Outstanding	Memory 97 1-Core 139 2-Core 276 95% 170 Pts	4-Core 551 8-Core 534 73% 542 Pts	64-Core 543 34% 543 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 96% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 8548) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6839 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.5% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 122 Parallax 108 92% 114 fps	MRender 100 Gravity 104 Splatting 96.2 82% 100 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung SM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$69 12,601 User benchmarks, average bench 205% 288GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	275% Outstanding	Read 1,995 Write 1,466 Mixed 1,584 374% 1,682 MB/s	4K Read 54.4 4K Write 181 4K Mixed 69.7 268% 102 MB/s	DQ Read 637 DQ Write 428 DQ Mixed 269 272% 445 MB/s
Poor: 136% ↑ This bench: 275% Great: 262%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 103GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2075 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 710 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 54 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 100 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1675086052	118% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 406 Mixed 421 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 48 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 49.9 191% 66.9 MB/s	DQ Read 369 DQ Write 273 DQ Mixed 114 141% 252 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 71GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4026 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1225 (B1) Unknown 98 98 36 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 52 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 129 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8462120062
Poor: 64% Great: 115%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 99 23107472 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1420 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 25126458 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4140 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1286 (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 69 61 522125343 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 58 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 60 60 81596 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 38654705695 (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 57350698306885 (F1) Unknown 100 253 9287305376 (F2) Unknown 100 253 197451436815	75.4% Very good	Read 112 Write 151 Mixed 100 90% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.24 4K Mixed 0.18 60% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 75.4% Great: 114%
WD VelociRaptor 1TB-$268 8,165 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 85GB free Firmware: 04.06A00 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 197 194 3116 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5817 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 16293 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4135 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 811 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5005 (C2) HDA temperature 118 108 32 (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	94.4% Outstanding	Read 188 Write 141 Mixed 133 115% 154 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 3.6 4K Mixed 0.34 144% 1.63 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 117%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR3-2400 CL11 8GB 2x8GB 203 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	80.4% Excellent	MC Read 29.1 MC Write 30.4 MC Mixed 24.3 80% 27.9 GB/s	SC Read 20.6 SC Write 25.8 SC Mixed 26.4 69% 24.3 GB/s	Latency 50.5 79% 50.5 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 87%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,217x
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 $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