Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3

Performance Results


Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 45% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (89th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 11 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	63.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	77.8% 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.

Very high background CPU (36%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3 (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150422
Uptime	2 Days
Run Date	Mar 22 '17 at 20:56
Run Duration	117 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	36%

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PC Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	85.9% Excellent	Memory 89.2 1-Core 124 2-Core 246 86% 153 Pts	4-Core 474 8-Core 489 64% 481 Pts	64-Core 483 30% 483 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 85.9% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% MSI(1462 3281) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.8% Good	Lighting 81.2 Reflection 79.8 Parallax 68.8 66% 76.6 fps	MRender 72 Gravity 72.8 Splatting 71.4 59% 72.1 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.8% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 16GB free (System drive) Firmware: U21010RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 225 100 481 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 888 (A6) Unknown 100 100 485 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 537 (A9) Unknown 100 100 18 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 515 (AE) Unknown 100 100 88 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 60 100 240518168616 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 17 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 58130 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2920 (F2) Unknown 253 253 3286	77.8% Very good	Read 496 Write 414 Mixed 453 101% 454 MB/s	4K Read 22.6 4K Write 97.5 4K Mixed 5.08 92% 41.7 MB/s	DQ Read 26 DQ Write 300 DQ Mixed 4.98 51% 110 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 78%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$34 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 794GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 82 63 201320629 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1240 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 93163788 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2546 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 841 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 2 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 64 60 638779428 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1346 (C2) HDA temperature 36 14 60129542180 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 7 1 201320629 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -110011292317616 (F1) Unknown 100 253 31665403158 (F2) Unknown 100 253 22868157544	97% Outstanding	Read 174 Write 164 Mixed 164 126% 168 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.22 83% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 97% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMY8GX3M2A1866C9 0423 Team-Elite-1600 0215 CMY8GX3M2A1866C9 0423 Team-Elite-1600 16GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	51.3% Above average	MC Read 17.8 MC Write 19.1 MC Mixed 16.4 51% 17.8 GB/s	SC Read 15.1 SC Write 12.6 SC Mixed 15.4 41% 14.4 GB/s	Latency 68.2 59% 68.2 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 51.3% Great: 51%

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Desktop 79%

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Workstation 30%

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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 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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