Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 63% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 92.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	80.5% 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	79.6% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	6.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150421
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 04 '17 at 08:52
Run Duration	139 Seconds
Run User	ISR-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (65^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 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.9% Outstanding	Memory 94.7 1-Core 132 2-Core 264 91% 163 Pts	4-Core 498 8-Core 669 74% 584 Pts	64-Core 669 41% 669 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 92.9% 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: 381.89 Performing below potential (68^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.5% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 110 Parallax 108 84% 107 fps	MRender 91.9 Gravity 95.5 Splatting 87.2 75% 91.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force LE 120GB 3,209 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 92GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFC12.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 345 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 104 (A2) Unknown 100 100 225 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 65543 (AE) Unknown 100 100 62 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 62 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 303 (F2) Unknown 100 100 384	79.6% Very good	Read 514 Write 291 Mixed 326 83% 377 MB/s	4K Read 32.9 4K Write 79.2 4K Mixed 10.1 105% 40.7 MB/s	DQ Read 318 DQ Write 220 DQ Mixed 43.9 94% 194 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 79.6% Great: 92%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 101GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 155 153 5208 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14166 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 5 5 69756 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1000 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 409 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1000 (C2) HDA temperature 114 97 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	36.1% Below average	Read 61.3 Write 64.2 Mixed 72.2 50% 65.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 2.11 4K Mixed 0.35 96% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 36.1% Great: 69%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$24 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 33GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 140 138 3975 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 734 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 48 48 38247 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 333 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 207 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 526 (C2) HDA temperature 112 93 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	53.6% Above average	Read 97 Write 89.7 Mixed 78.1 66% 88.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.85 4K Mixed 0.27 80% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 53.6% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x4GB 27,462 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	59.9% Above average	MC Read 22.1 MC Write 20.7 MC Mixed 17.6 58% 20.1 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 22.6 SC Mixed 18.8 56% 19.7 GB/s	Latency 58.1 69% 58.1 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 59.9% Great: 60%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

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Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 - $169

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,220x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	633x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	398x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	481x
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 $94Bench 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	97x

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Total price: $817

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