Gigabyte GA-H97-HD3

Performance Results


Gaming 6% Tree trunk	Desktop 66% Battle cruiser	Workstation 5% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (27th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 73 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 70.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	3.69% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	54.9% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/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-H97-HD3 (all builds)
Memory	8.6 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	Χρώματα 1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20141119
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 16 '17 at 19:12
Run Duration	161 Seconds
Run User	CYP-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing below expectations (27^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, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	70.3% Very good	Memory 70.7 1-Core 120 2-Core 237 78% 142 Pts	4-Core 381 8-Core 520 57% 451 Pts	64-Core 617 38% 617 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 70.3% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Gigabyte(1458 D000) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 10.18.14.4264 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	3.69% Terrible	Lighting 3.97 Reflection 6.65 Parallax 5.19 3% 5.27 fps	MRender 5.43 Gravity 2.63 Splatting 7.83 5% 5.3 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.69% Great: 3%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 830 512GB-$500 1,815 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 429GB free Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9529 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 5714 (B1) Unknown 96 96 133 (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 70 56 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 54 (F1) Unknown 99 99 38971171616	54.4% Above average	Read 471 Write 374 Mixed 425 94% 423 MB/s	4K Read 6.24 4K Write 20.6 4K Mixed 8.23 31% 11.7 MB/s	DQ Read 97.4 DQ Write 49.3 DQ Mixed 42.3 40% 63 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 54.4% Great: 85%
Team L3 EVO SSD 120GB 600 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 12GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFM10.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 330 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 92 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 94 94 102 (AD) Unknown 100 100 786472 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 6 (C2) HDA temperature 67 67 141736083489 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 98 (F1) Unknown 100 100 708	54.9% Above average	Read 408 Write 288 Mixed 329 76% 342 MB/s	4K Read 29.3 4K Write 12.9 4K Mixed 6.93 60% 16.4 MB/s	DQ Read 174 DQ Write 10.7 DQ Mixed 11.7 29% 65.5 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 54.9% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown OCZ3G1333LV4G 3x4GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 3 of 4 slots used 12GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	24.3% Poor	MC Read 8.6 MC Write 8.4 MC Mixed 7.2 23% 8.07 GB/s	SC Read 5.8 SC Write 7.6 SC Mixed 6.1 19% 6.5 GB/s	Latency 99.7 40% 99.7 ns
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 24.3% Great: 48%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 39%

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Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97-HD3

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	326x
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	290x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	159x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	166x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	147x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	85x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	57x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	48x
MX500 1TBCrucial $66Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	44x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	76x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	44x
Ballistix Sport DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCrucialBench 56%, 44,086 samples	35x

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Value: 58% - Above average

Total price: $444

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $184	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