Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 89.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	89.7% 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	59.3% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
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, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	6.2 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 26 '17 at 15:36
Run Duration	167 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (73^rd 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 (99^th percentile)	89.7% Excellent	Memory 98.2 1-Core 127 2-Core 238 88% 154 Pts	4-Core 438 8-Core 691 70% 565 Pts	64-Core 696 43% 696 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 89.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 119D) CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.49 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.7% Excellent	Lighting 114 Reflection 116 Parallax 99.2 93% 110 fps	MRender 99.5 Gravity 103 Splatting 103 83% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.7% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba Q300 480GB-$152 5,920 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 277GB free Firmware: SAFM12.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 152 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 47 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 199 199 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 12 (C2) HDA temperature 73 63 158914773019	71% Very good	Read 501 Write 276 Mixed 267 77% 348 MB/s	4K Read 29.8 4K Write 54.9 4K Mixed 7.81 84% 30.9 MB/s	DQ Read 313 DQ Write 161 DQ Mixed 36.4 81% 170 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 99%
WD Green SATA M.2 240GB-$69 5,323 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 167GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z3311000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 2 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 6 (A5) Unknown 100 100 4295688201 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 3 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 65 62 163208757283 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 12885164036 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 67 (EA) Unknown 100 100 86 (F1) Unknown 253 253 82 (F2) Unknown 253 253 52 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	59.3% Above average	Read 472 Write 251 Mixed 199 67% 308 MB/s	4K Read 20.1 4K Write 57.7 4K Mixed 3.88 66% 27.2 MB/s	DQ Read 166 DQ Write 145 DQ Mixed 3.64 44% 105 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 59.3% Great: 68%
WD Blue 320GB (2010)-$40 13,720 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 171GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 26 (03) Spinup time 155 137 3233 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2507 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3114 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2188 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1100 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1406 (C2) HDA temperature 113 96 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 647 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 1	50.6% Above average	Read 85.2 Write 90.8 Mixed 89.7 67% 88.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.69 4K Mixed 0.42 105% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 50.6% Great: 65%
VB0250EAVER 250GB 1,795 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 133GB free Firmware: HPG9 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 35022874 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 923 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 5025663 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 399 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 464 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1311022114 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 5 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 62 454033435 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 34359738395 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 63 58 35022874 (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	51.6% Above average	Read 92.9 Write 87.1 Mixed 89.2 68% 89.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.5 95% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 51.6% Great: 60%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x4GB 6,123 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	83.3% Excellent	MC Read 31.8 MC Write 30.7 MC Mixed 24.6 83% 29 GB/s	SC Read 21.5 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 25.3 68% 23.7 GB/s	Latency 45.3 88% 45.3 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 90%

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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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Value: 60% - Above average

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