Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Game Plus

Performance Results


Gaming 34% Sail boat	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 27% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 81.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	34.6% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Game Plus (all builds)
Memory	21.6 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20150919
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 20 '16 at 19:53
Run Duration	199 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4570-$99 129,272 User benchmarks, average bench 62% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	81.2% Excellent	Memory 92.8 1-Core 103 2-Core 204 78% 133 Pts	4-Core 403 8-Core 399 54% 401 Pts	64-Core 399 25% 399 Pts
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 81.2% Great: 72%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% Gigabyte(1458 36D2) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6881 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	34.6% Below average	Lighting 44.7 Reflection 43.4 Parallax 37.9 36% 42 fps	MRender 38.9 Gravity 39.6 Splatting 36.1 31% 38.2 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 34.6% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial BX200 240GB-$36 36,559 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 97GB free Firmware: MU02.6 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th 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 100 100 115 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1144 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 33 (A3) Unknown 100 100 311 (94) Unknown 100 100 75303 (95) Unknown 100 100 1097 (96) Unknown 100 100 930 (97) Unknown 100 100 1060 (A4) Unknown 100 100 26890 (A5) Unknown 100 100 42 (A6) Unknown 100 100 4 (A7) Unknown 100 100 21 (A9) Unknown 100 100 98 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 283 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 41953931034655 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 122020 (F2) Unknown 100 100 136284 (F5) Unknown 100 100 158819 (F6) Unknown 100 100 150606 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0	75.6% Very good	Read 489 Write 254 Mixed 266 74% 337 MB/s	4K Read 30.2 4K Write 52.7 4K Mixed 23.5 104% 35.5 MB/s	DQ Read 259 DQ Write 159 DQ Mixed 47.2 79% 155 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 75.6% Great: 91%
MB2000EBUCF 2TB 645 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 1.5TB free Firmware: MK7OHPG0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 99 0 (02) Throughput performance 134 100 87 (03) Spinup time 174 100 42978181402 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 800 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 99 90 65536 (08) Seek timer performance 123 100 31 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 32801 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 1 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 515 (B4) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B9) Unknown 100 100 65535 (BB) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BC) Unknown 100 92 146031181875 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 49 438108189 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1265 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1265 (C2) HDA temperature 206 120 219044380701 (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 3	81.8% Excellent	Read 156 Write 129 Mixed 143 108% 143 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.08 4K Mixed 0.45 126% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 81.8% Great: 82%
Hds722020ala330 RSD HUA 2TB 1,166 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 1.5TB free Firmware: JKAOA31E Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 132 132 104 (03) Spinup time 115 115 55877501528 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3714 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 110 110 40 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 32894 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3197 (C0) Power-off retract count 94 94 7211 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 7211 (C2) HDA temperature 214 214 249108824092 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1	60.1% Good	Read 114 Write 95.7 Mixed 108 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.43 103% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 60.1% Great: 70%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 294GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 219004664 (03) Spinup time 97 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1050 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 100602987 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1722 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2458 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 6 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 70 54 505020446 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1355 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4706 (C2) HDA temperature 30 46 42949672990 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 96349001352716 (F1) Unknown 100 253 37007614312 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2319354327403	86.1% Excellent	Read 121 Write 178 Mixed 121 105% 140 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 5.47 4K Mixed 0.93 237% 2.39 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 112%
WD WD10EURX 1TB-$25 53,598 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 67GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 182 682 (03) Spinup time 138 133 4066 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 464 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 906 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 428 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 230 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 233 (C2) HDA temperature 114 102 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 186 463 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	39.1% Below average	Read 62.7 Write 73.1 Mixed 62.8 50% 66.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 2.37 4K Mixed 0.21 90% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 39.1% Great: 87%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 3x8GB 1,140 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 3 of 4 slots used 24GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	70.9% Very good	MC Read 26 MC Write 27 MC Mixed 22.9 72% 25.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 18.4 SC Mixed 21.8 55% 19.1 GB/s	Latency 62.5 64% 62.5 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 70%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Game Plus

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	26x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	10x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	5x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	7x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	6x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	5x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	5x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	3x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $37Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	2x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	11x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	3x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	3x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	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) $35	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