Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 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 90.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Boot Drive	77.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit Farben,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	3.8 Days
Run Date	Mar 22 '17 at 05:00
Run Duration	175 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing as expected (46^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.3% Outstanding	Memory 97.8 1-Core 132 2-Core 253 91% 161 Pts	4-Core 446 8-Core 674 70% 560 Pts	64-Core 679 42% 679 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 90.3% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.78 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 70% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 134GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0CB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10238 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 972 (B1) Unknown 96 96 45 (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 62 47 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 70 (F1) Unknown 99 99 32547944883	77.4% Very good	Read 488 Write 339 Mixed 352 87% 393 MB/s	4K Read 25.3 4K Write 38.9 4K Mixed 16.5 80% 26.9 MB/s	DQ Read 362 DQ Write 240 DQ Mixed 15.5 89% 206 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 77.4% Great: 118%
Samsung 830 128GB-$109 37,250 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 27GB free Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 23202 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2051 (B1) Unknown 97 97 100 (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 66 57 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 6 (EB) Unknown 99 99 602 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13608985609	59% Above average	Read 490 Write 307 Mixed 382 87% 393 MB/s	4K Read 16.8 4K Write 48.7 4K Mixed 10.9 65% 25.5 MB/s	DQ Read 18.5 DQ Write 54.7 DQ Mixed 32.8 26% 35.3 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 59% Great: 76%
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB-$150 34,842 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 11GB free Firmware: DXM05B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 16161 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1778 (B1) Unknown 96 96 142 (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 67 60 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 126 (EB) Unknown 99 99 526 (F1) Unknown 99 99 17364646785	89% Excellent	Read 501 Write 430 Mixed 467 104% 466 MB/s	4K Read 22.3 4K Write 56.9 4K Mixed 22.3 92% 33.8 MB/s	DQ Read 353 DQ Write 311 DQ Mixed 77.5 128% 247 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 110%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 233GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 210831959 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6177 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 60 60 274959838770 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 16674 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2137 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 77 17181835457 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 54 9144893472 (C2) HDA temperature 32 46 64424509472 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 38 22 210831959 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 17 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -114765821090737 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2952446159 (F2) Unknown 100 253 519183703	39.3% Below average	Read 78.9 Write 57.8 Mixed 75.3 54% 70.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.47 106% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 39.3% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GB 984 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	82.7% Excellent	MC Read 29.3 MC Write 31.7 MC Mixed 25.8 83% 28.9 GB/s	SC Read 20 SC Write 24.2 SC Mixed 25.4 66% 23.2 GB/s	Latency 46.8 86% 46.8 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 89%

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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	1,218x
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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Total price: $817

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 $15	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