Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 57% Gunboat	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	63.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	70.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	20.5 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140530
Uptime	2.1 Days
Run Date	May 14 '17 at 15:09
Run Duration	166 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	13%

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PC Performing above expectations (66^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	86.4% Excellent	Memory 90.5 1-Core 124 2-Core 244 86% 153 Pts	4-Core 444 8-Core 641 68% 542 Pts	64-Core 596 37% 596 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Zotac(19DA 1438) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.2% Good	Lighting 79.4 Reflection 78.7 Parallax 67.3 65% 75.1 fps	MRender 72.5 Gravity 73.7 Splatting 74.4 60% 73.6 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 540s Series 480GB 4,519 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 122GB free Firmware: LSBG200 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 35 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 273 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 9 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 33 44 98787131425 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 9 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 53022 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 0 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 0 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 53022 (F2) Unknown 100 100 78764 (F9) Unknown 100 100 1497 (FC) Unknown 100 100 4	76.5% Very good	Read 496 Write 443 Mixed 486 106% 475 MB/s	4K Read 19.5 4K Write 76.7 4K Mixed 13.4 87% 36.6 MB/s	DQ Read 21.9 DQ Write 168 DQ Mixed 68.8 61% 86.2 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 76.5% Great: 95%
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 250GB 312 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 97GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT21B6Q 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 99 99 1721 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 818 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (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 72 57 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 7 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4851452376	70.9% Very good	Read 493 Write 399 Mixed 414 97% 435 MB/s	4K Read 25.4 4K Write 43.4 4K Mixed 15.9 82% 28.3 MB/s	DQ Read 27.2 DQ Write 89.9 DQ Mixed 17.1 25% 44.7 MB/s
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 123%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 196 179 5158 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2485 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1420 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 895 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 38 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 194 194 20425 (C2) HDA temperature 127 114 23 (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	75.8% Very good	Read 139 Write 124 Mixed 123 97% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 2.23 4K Mixed 0.25 104% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 75.8% Great: 83%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 465GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 172310939 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3222 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 63284764 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4584 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2504 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 82 46 386924562 (C2) HDA temperature 18 54 42949672978 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 22 21 172310939 (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 -125026497975026 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3064841965 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4184526682	70.4% Very good	Read 123 Write 122 Mixed 115 90% 120 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 2.03 4K Mixed 0.54 123% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 70.4% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905584-015.A00LF 99U5471-056.A00LF 9905584-015.A00LF 99U5471-056.A00LF 24GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 8192, 4096, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	57.5% Above average	MC Read 21 MC Write 21.3 MC Mixed 16.4 56% 19.6 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 22 SC Mixed 19.1 53% 18.7 GB/s	Latency 66.5 60% 66.5 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 57.5% Great: 57%

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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	1,217x
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 $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