Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 89.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	89% 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	56.5% 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors, 1024 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140530
Uptime	4.6 Days
Run Date	Feb 11 '17 at 12:41
Run Duration	299 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (62^nd 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)	89.9% Excellent	Memory 97.1 1-Core 130 2-Core 258 91% 162 Pts	4-Core 446 8-Core 694 70% 570 Pts	64-Core 693 43% 693 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3302) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89% Excellent	Lighting 114 Reflection 115 Parallax 97 93% 108 fps	MRender 95.7 Gravity 102 Splatting 102 82% 99.9 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 120GB-$109 51,792 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 24GB free Firmware: DXT07B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5159 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1215 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (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 79 59 21 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 15 (F1) Unknown 99 99 745729620	60.9% Good	Read 474 Write 123 Mixed 140 53% 246 MB/s	4K Read 22.6 4K Write 79.1 4K Mixed 9.58 88% 37.1 MB/s	DQ Read 311 DQ Write 112 DQ Mixed 25.4 68% 149 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 73%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 19GB free (System drive) Firmware: 541ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 7531608 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 -107709189844469 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 943 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 10 (B1) Unknown 0 0 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 20 36 1009319673876 (C2) HDA temperature 20 36 1009319673876 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 7531608 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 7531608 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 7531608 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 14637 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6072 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6072 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7367	56.5% Above average	Read 432 Write 216 Mixed 150 58% 266 MB/s	4K Read 21.5 4K Write 68 4K Mixed 13.5 86% 34.3 MB/s	DQ Read 1.7 DQ Write 46.4 DQ Mixed 0.54 8% 16.2 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 56.5% Great: 85%
Toshiba MK1059GSM 1TB 4,891 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 292GB free Firmware: GU001U Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 3718 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1690 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 5258 (0A) Spinup retry count 133 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1239 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 203 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 100 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 45819 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 231928823831 (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 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 87 (DE) Loaded hours 96 96 1967 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 276 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	3.31% Terrible	Read 5.28 Write 6.3 Mixed 5.73 4% 5.77 MB/s	4K Read 0.006 4K Write 0.002 4K Mixed 0.002 0% 0.003 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 3.31% Great: 49%

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 way above expectations (96^th percentile)	79.1% Very good	MC Read 28.5 MC Write 29.2 MC Mixed 25 79% 27.6 GB/s	SC Read 20.6 SC Write 24.2 SC Mixed 24.2 66% 23 GB/s	Latency 49.8 80% 49.8 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 79.1% Great: 79%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

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 $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) $34	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