Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 55% Gunboat	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	75.6% 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	61.6% 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.

High background CPU (22%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	10.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 26 '17 at 04:08
Run Duration	148 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	22%

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PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (60^th percentile)	73.5% Very good	Memory 83.8 1-Core 101 2-Core 185 72% 123 Pts	4-Core 341 8-Core 562 55% 451 Pts	64-Core 561 35% 561 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 73.5% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing below potential (27^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	75.6% Very good	Lighting 95.3 Reflection 98.7 Parallax 83.6 78% 92.6 fps	MRender 86 Gravity 87.1 Splatting 88.3 72% 87.1 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 75.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M4 256GB-$218 17,938 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 107GB free (System drive) Firmware: 040H 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 8989 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 703 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 91 91 292 (AE) Unknown 100 100 170 (B5) Unknown 100 100 6584250139161 (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 81 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 159 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 91 91 9 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	61.6% Good	Read 484 Write 244 Mixed 282 74% 337 MB/s	4K Read 21.2 4K Write 85.8 4K Mixed 5.11 84% 37.4 MB/s	DQ Read 70.9 DQ Write 114 DQ Mixed 4.7 28% 63.1 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 61.6% Great: 74%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 90GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3950 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 79 (B1) Unknown 99 99 21 (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 54 47 46 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 28 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10060290582	107% Outstanding	Read 496 Write 400 Mixed 411 97% 436 MB/s	4K Read 43.7 4K Write 92.7 4K Mixed 40.4 167% 58.9 MB/s	DQ Read 295 DQ Write 266 DQ Mixed 92.4 121% 218 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 697GB free Firmware: HP64 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 75 19876387 (03) Spinup time 95 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 76 76 24746 (05) Reallocated sector count 97 97 151 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 156492285 (09) Power-on hours count 65 65 30870 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 720 (B4) Unknown 100 100 4285019015 (B7) Unknown 43 43 57 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 25601 (BC) Unknown 100 1 94490723047 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 55 55 756351021 (C2) HDA temperature 45 45 64424509485 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 48 15 19876387 (C4) Reallocation count 97 97 151 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 4 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 199 7	65.2% Good	Read 115 Write 113 Mixed 104 83% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.65 4K Mixed 0.44 111% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 65.2% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Patriot PSD38G16002 2x8GB 6,044 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	29.6% Poor	MC Read 10 MC Write 10.4 MC Mixed 8.2 27% 9.53 GB/s	SC Read 7.9 SC Write 8.9 SC Mixed 8.5 24% 8.43 GB/s	Latency 73.9 54% 73.9 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 29.6% Great: 61%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 - $162

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	842x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	348x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	158x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	317x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	113x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	108x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	96x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	61x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	41x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	99x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	66x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	63x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $810

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 $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