Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 90.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	88.4% 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	38.5% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3 (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150422
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 23 '17 at 01:44
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	13%

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PC Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.6% Outstanding	Memory 93.5 1-Core 120 2-Core 238 85% 151 Pts	4-Core 476 8-Core 662 72% 569 Pts	64-Core 662 41% 662 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 90.6% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.57 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	88.4% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 115 Parallax 101 91% 109 fps	MRender 99 Gravity 103 Splatting 103 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HyperX Fury 120GB-$160 11,403 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 17GB free (System drive) Firmware: 583ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 10774566 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 118867514891947 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1368 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 244 (B1) Unknown 0 0 88 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 38 51 64427851814 (C2) HDA temperature 38 51 64427851814 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 10774566 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 10774566 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 10774566 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 89 89 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 52920 (EA) Unknown 0 0 45727 (F1) Unknown 0 0 45727 (F2) Unknown 0 0 22412	38.5% Below average	Read 420 Write 88.6 Mixed 118 45% 209 MB/s	4K Read 10.1 4K Write 41.9 4K Mixed 7.24 47% 19.8 MB/s	DQ Read 17.4 DQ Write 101 DQ Mixed 6.21 20% 41.6 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 38.5% Great: 75%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$32 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 306GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 95 232077400 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2499 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 34738350457 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12720 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2279 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 64 64 36 (BC) Unknown 100 99 6 (BD) vendor-specific 63 63 37 (BE) vendor-specific 64 39 13632831815716 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 425 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 70 70 61379 (C2) HDA temperature 36 61 34359738404 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 8 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 8 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 84945863190983 (F1) Unknown 100 253 106229530049 (F2) Unknown 100 253 110837477875	84.7% Excellent	Read 150 Write 146 Mixed 144 110% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.36 97% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 84.7% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 1315 BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 0215 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 1315 BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 16GB 218 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	57.9% Above average	MC Read 18.1 MC Write 21.3 MC Mixed 18.5 55% 19.3 GB/s	SC Read 16.9 SC Write 23 SC Mixed 20 57% 20 GB/s	Latency 60.9 66% 60.9 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 57.9% Great: 64%

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

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Gaming 38%

Jet ski

Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 30%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3

CPU
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	621x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	541x
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	359x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	307x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	227x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	207x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	159x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	118x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	92x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	147x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	65x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	62x

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Value: 53% - Above average

Total price: $353

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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