Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 10% Tree trunk	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 9% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 74.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	6.86% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	46.9% 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Apr 21 '17 at 22:38
Run Duration	118 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770S-$102 13,157 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.1 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	74.4% Very good	Memory 81.5 1-Core 114 2-Core 213 77% 136 Pts	4-Core 368 8-Core 501 55% 434 Pts	64-Core 465 29% 465 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 74.4% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD FirePro V4900-$150 2,218 User benchmarks, average bench 7% AMD(1002 2B06) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.2401.0 Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	6.86% Terrible	Lighting 8.6 Reflection 8.38 Parallax 6.97 7% 7.98 fps	MRender 8.67 Gravity 6.33 Splatting 8.78 6% 7.93 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 6.86% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 535 Series 480GB-$180 3,042 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 291GB free (System drive) Firmware: RG21 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 929 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 358 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 43 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 30 100 68722688030 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 43 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 136225 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 58 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 98 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 136225 (F2) Unknown 100 100 194304 (F9) Unknown 100 100 42287	46.9% Average	Read 328 Write 262 Mixed 265 64% 285 MB/s	4K Read 21.1 4K Write 12.4 4K Mixed 10.5 52% 14.6 MB/s	DQ Read 23.1 DQ Write 86.8 DQ Mixed 10.3 21% 40.1 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 46.9% Great: 69%
Seagate ST31500541AS 1.5TB 9,968 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 820GB free Firmware: CC95 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 222515124 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 37 37 65535 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 23987479 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12687 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 37 1587 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BC) Unknown 100 98 12885098514 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 40 2963998834716 (C2) HDA temperature 28 60 73014444060 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 35 30 222515124 (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 -83988085458448 (F1) Unknown 100 253 39306354 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2143420228	41.6% Average	Read 74.7 Write 70.1 Mixed 67.7 53% 70.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.45 105% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 41.6% Great: 56%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 43,127 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (33^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	53.5% Above average	MC Read 17.8 MC Write 20.3 MC Mixed 18 53% 18.7 GB/s	SC Read 13.9 SC Write 17.1 SC Mixed 16.5 45% 15.8 GB/s	Latency 77.8 51% 77.8 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 53.5% Great: 63%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 - $135

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	358x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	199x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	71x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	121x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	73x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	64x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	59x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	37x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	20x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	49x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	25x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 49%, 28,220 samples	23x

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Total price: $783

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) $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