Gigabyte GA-H97M-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 11% Tree trunk	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 10% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (85th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 15 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 80.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	6.31% 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.
Boot Drive	92.8% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (40%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H97M-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1440 x 900 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140628
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 21 '16 at 23:45
Run Duration	153 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	40%

PC Performing way above expectations (85^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 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	80.7% Excellent	Memory 91.3 1-Core 113 2-Core 219 81% 141 Pts	4-Core 379 8-Core 596 60% 487 Pts	64-Core 604 37% 604 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R7 240 58,337 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Gigabyte(1458 22B0) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 13.251.0.0 Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	6.31% Terrible	Lighting 7.73 Reflection 10 Parallax 10.1 6% 9.27 fps	MRender 7.33 Gravity 7.67 Splatting 8.04 6% 7.68 fps
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 6.31% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingmax 240GB 240GB 2,389 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 72GB free (System drive) Firmware: M102 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd 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 100 100 151 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1055 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 535 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 45 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 17940 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 100 (A3) Unknown 100 100 6 (A4) Unknown 100 100 51304 (A5) Unknown 100 100 105 (A6) Unknown 100 100 4 (A7) Unknown 100 100 50 (F1) Unknown 100 100 167081 (F2) Unknown 100 100 266478 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100	92.8% Outstanding	Read 503 Write 270 Mixed 352 83% 375 MB/s	4K Read 28.6 4K Write 130 4K Mixed 32 153% 63.6 MB/s	DQ Read 257 DQ Write 212 DQ Mixed 47.3 86% 172 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 92.8% Great: 95%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 3.5TB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 99 25245480 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 112 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 62057 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 107 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 46 (B7) Unknown 98 98 2 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 18 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 68 454688795 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 484 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 68719476763 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 11 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 13348758356007 (F1) Unknown 100 253 460949375 (F2) Unknown 100 253 15906691548	92.4% Outstanding	Read 163 Write 160 Mixed 167 123% 163 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.22 84% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 92.4% Great: 96%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 856GB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 9462 (03) Spinup time 176 170 2200 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11746 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 14042 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 89 89 11603 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 36 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 11709 (C2) HDA temperature 116 97 27 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 4 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 82 82 13173 (F1) Unknown 200 200 36802499701 (F2) Unknown 200 200 22730547730	111% Outstanding	Read 194 Write 192 Mixed 156 135% 181 MB/s	4K Read 1.21 4K Write 3.07 4K Mixed 0.33 144% 1.53 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 109%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 825GB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 59499256 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1306 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 17419117 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2752 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1088 (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 73 55 454688795 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 22 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 14653 (C2) HDA temperature 27 45 47244640283 (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 86174223828953 (F1) Unknown 100 253 21038761102 (F2) Unknown 100 253 61050653642	93.3% Outstanding	Read 188 Write 138 Mixed 151 120% 159 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.39 4K Mixed 0.25 79% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 93.3% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-053.A00LF 2x8GB 461 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	59.2% Above average	MC Read 22 MC Write 21.5 MC Mixed 17.4 58% 20.3 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 21.6 SC Mixed 19.2 53% 18.6 GB/s	Latency 65.3 61% 65.3 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 59.2% Great: 61%

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Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 23%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97M-Gaming 3

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	42x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	27x
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	21x

GPU
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	27x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	26x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	17x

SSD
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	20x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	16x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	9x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	20x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 49%, 28,220 samples	7x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 1x8GBKingstonBench 31%, 37,489 samples	7x

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Total price: $371

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