Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H

Performance Results

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


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 62.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Very high background CPU (52%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H (all builds)
Memory	25 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20140424
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 16 '17 at 05:09
Run Duration	535 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	52%

PC Performing as expected (55^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4570S 11,172 User benchmarks, average bench 66% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2.9 GHz, turbo 2.7 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	62.1% Good	Memory 65.7 1-Core 30.6 2-Core 164 48% 86.8 Pts	4-Core 337 8-Core 339 45% 338 Pts	64-Core 335 21% 335 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 62.1% Great: 76%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 84GB free Firmware: 521ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4298524148 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 -9826885159892 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 273 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 187 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 137 (BD) vendor-specific 35 38 42952163363 (C2) HDA temperature 35 38 42952163363 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3556852 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3556852 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3556852 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2647 (EA) Unknown 0 0 536 (F1) Unknown 0 0 536 (F2) Unknown 0 0 299	49.1% Average	Read 481 Write 143 Mixed 208 60% 277 MB/s	4K Read 15.8 4K Write 37 4K Mixed 12.5 60% 21.8 MB/s	DQ Read 19.1 DQ Write 134 DQ Mixed 45.8 44% 66.3 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 49.1% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$63 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 217854840 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 218 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 14923854 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 12046 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 217 (B7) Unknown 98 98 2 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 12885098503 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 57 53 723648555 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 46 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 77 77 46673 (C2) HDA temperature 43 47 34359738411 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 163 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -29347511531722 (F1) Unknown 100 253 12072000001 (F2) Unknown 100 253 185467830557	91.7% Outstanding	Read 162 Write 158 Mixed 154 119% 158 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.33 4K Mixed 0.21 66% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 91.7% Great: 113%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$80 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 1TB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 175 172 8216 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 124 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4803 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 123 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 93 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 14454 (C2) HDA temperature 109 106 43 (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	72.8% Very good	Read 123 Write 131 Mixed 121 94% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 1.95 4K Mixed 0.29 104% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 72.8% Great: 96%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$63 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 977GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 127424160 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 337 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 43 9254540005 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 25672 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 328 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 93 93 7 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 8590065666 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 38 -122942849679325 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 297 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 10690 (C2) HDA temperature 35 62 21474836515 (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 37323265824202 (F1) Unknown 100 253 567957409537 (F2) Unknown 100 253 551397140909	93.1% Outstanding	Read 141 Write 184 Mixed 143 117% 156 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.05 4K Mixed 0.31 72% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 93.1% Great: 113%
Seagate Expansion 4TB 22,017 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 875GB free Firmware: 9300 Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	54.6% Above average	Read 100 Write 88.5 Mixed 76.8 66% 88.6 MB/s	4K Read 1.03 4K Write 5.07 4K Mixed 0.48 190% 2.19 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 54.6% Great: 66%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 1TB (2016)-$70 66,332 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 739GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 100 202407008 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 24 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 27076431 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 664 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 51 (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 57 55 723714091 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 10 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 30 (C2) HDA temperature 43 45 85899345963 (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 120667106181784 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1963515417 (F2) Unknown 100 253 28996302246	80.8% Excellent	Read 120 Write 160 Mixed 119 100% 133 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 5.12 4K Mixed 0.68 196% 2.14 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 111%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$63 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 689GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 140492096 (03) Spinup time 97 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 723 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 14577798 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10814 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 197 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 91 91 9 (BE) vendor-specific 62 54 656343078 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 98 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 61 61 78385 (C2) HDA temperature 38 46 38654705702 (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 97349728732642 (F1) Unknown 100 253 15713173154 (F2) Unknown 100 253 36818831376	93.3% Outstanding	Read 171 Write 155 Mixed 135 115% 153 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 0.51 4K Mixed 0.21 65% 0.5 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 93.3% Great: 113%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 540GB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1467 (03) Spinup time 175 173 6208 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 277 (05) Reallocated sector count 161 161 1146 (07) Seek error rate 200 185 0 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 24787 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 273 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 224 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 188 188 38747 (C2) HDA temperature 116 90 34 (C4) Reallocation count 197 197 3 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 2 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 2	59.8% Above average	Read 95.5 Write 113 Mixed 95.2 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 2.36 4K Mixed 0.28 110% 1.16 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 59.8% Great: 83%
Seagate Momentus Thin 7200 2.5" 320GB-$29 12,279 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 94GB free Firmware: 0004LVM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 106 92 11123048 (03) Spinup time 98 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1995 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 39220008382 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 -70175470635590 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1724 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 87 87 13 (BC) Unknown 100 98 26 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 51 555614241 (BF) G-sense error rate 95 95 11224 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 83 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 70 70 60301 (C2) HDA temperature 33 49 21474836513 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 40 36 11123048 (C4) Reallocation count 85 85 -45938970184594 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 1 1044 (FB) Unknown 100 1 124 (FC) Unknown 100 1 12 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	53.4% Above average	Read 94.9 Write 91.3 Mixed 75.5 65% 87.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 0.95 4K Mixed 0.56 100% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 53.4% Great: 64%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$63 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 46GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 69445328 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 174 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 62 60 1763006 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8258 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 170 (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 60 57 673251368 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 46 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 29941 (C2) HDA temperature 40 43 34359738408 (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 -227633266009 (F1) Unknown 100 253 9547021261 (F2) Unknown 100 253 25864816540	110% Outstanding	Read 198 Write 185 Mixed 127 126% 170 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.15 74% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 113%
WD Elements 1.5TB 5,064 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 154GB free, PID 1021 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	7.98% Terrible	Read 36.3 Write 5.14 Mixed 8.86 16% 16.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 0.46 4K Mixed 0.23 26% 0.48 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 7.98% Great: 22%
WD Elements 1TB 51,914 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 90GB free, PID 1042 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	31% Below average	Read 62 Write 70.8 Mixed 65 86% 65.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 0.21 80% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 31% Great: 43%
Seagate External Drive 320GB 217 User benchmarks, average bench 15% 6GB free, PID 0503 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	17.3% Very poor	Read 36.3 Write 36.6 Mixed 36.3 47% 36.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.28 4K Mixed 0.39 59% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 17.3% Great: 18%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 16G-D3-2400-MR 0821 16G-D3-2400-MR 1315 BLS8G3D18ADS3.16FE 1315 BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 32GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	46.5% Average	MC Read 16.5 MC Write 19.3 MC Mixed 16.9 50% 17.6 GB/s	SC Read 10.5 SC Write 8 SC Mixed 8.4 26% 8.97 GB/s	Latency 112 36% 112 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 46.5% Great: 48%

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Gaming 8%

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Desktop 66%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 8%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H - $84

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	483x
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	337x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	242x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	277x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	168x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	124x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	83x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	70x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	55x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	61x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	56x
Ballistix Sport DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCrucialBench 56%, 44,086 samples	28x

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Value: 55% - Above average

Total price: $334

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