Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 111% UFO	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 95% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 84.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	131% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	281% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

System	Gigabyte Z97X-SLI
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI-CF (all builds)
Memory	27.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit Farben, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	3.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 26 '17 at 21:55
Run Duration	264 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (63^rd 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 (89^th percentile)	84.7% Excellent	Memory 94.1 1-Core 129 2-Core 246 88% 156 Pts	4-Core 406 8-Core 655 65% 531 Pts	64-Core 667 41% 667 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 84.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85E4) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	131% Outstanding	Lighting 185 Reflection 200 Parallax 199 150% 194 fps	MRender 129 Gravity 182 Splatting 124 117% 145 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 131% Great: 133%
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Gigabyte(1458 D000) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4624 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 3% Great: 3%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO 1 TB 2TB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 7% 504GB free Firmware: SDM1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 72 64 16864316 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 671 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 68 60 6904292 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 49602577303041 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 138 (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 73 62 504889371 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 5 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 831 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 77309411355 (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 45367739549272 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3332423079 (F2) Unknown 100 253 5479355437 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	6.86% Terrible	Read 62.1 Write 63.5 Mixed 47.4 13% 57.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.36 4K Mixed 0.25 2% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 6.86% Great: 7%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 230GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	281% Outstanding	Read 2,693 Write 1,371 Mixed 1,395 400% 1,820 MB/s	4K Read 60.6 4K Write 137 4K Mixed 53.2 232% 83.5 MB/s	DQ Read 548 DQ Write 323 DQ Mixed 171 198% 348 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 281% Great: 254%
Crucial MX300 750GB-$160 24,471 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 194GB free Firmware: M0CR011 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 12 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 6 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4315 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 269 (AB) Unknown 100 100 6 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 14 (AE) Unknown 100 100 14 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 67 51 210454511649 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 6 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 6 (F6) Unknown 100 100 10346294376 (F7) Unknown 100 100 323420014 (F8) Unknown 100 100 214850619 (B4) Unknown 0 0 3565 (D2) Unknown 100 100 28	86% Excellent	Read 486 Write 340 Mixed 341 86% 389 MB/s	4K Read 27.2 4K Write 68.7 4K Mixed 26 111% 40.7 MB/s	DQ Read 351 DQ Write 203 DQ Mixed 48.1 97% 201 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 86% Great: 104%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 174GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8766 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 457 (B1) Unknown 99 99 14 (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 65 54 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 30 (F1) Unknown 99 99 31628497422	105% Outstanding	Read 520 Write 414 Mixed 427 101% 454 MB/s	4K Read 41.7 4K Write 80.5 4K Mixed 34.6 150% 52.3 MB/s	DQ Read 382 DQ Write 251 DQ Mixed 133 149% 255 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 133%
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB-$55 75,831 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 65GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4339 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 271 (B1) Unknown 94 94 27 (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 64 44 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 10 (F1) Unknown 99 99 14491208929	86.9% Excellent	Read 495 Write 276 Mixed 277 77% 349 MB/s	4K Read 41.2 4K Write 55.6 4K Mixed 28.7 129% 41.8 MB/s	DQ Read 363 DQ Write 167 DQ Mixed 68.2 103% 199 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 114%
Seagate Expansion Desk 5TB 11,776 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 696GB free Firmware: 9401 Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	52.7% Above average	Read 109 Write 74 Mixed 64.4 61% 82.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 4.03 4K Mixed 0.26 124% 1.59 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 52.7% Great: 87%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 4x8GB 8,984 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	62.3% Good	MC Read 22.3 MC Write 22.2 MC Mixed 18.7 60% 21.1 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 23.7 SC Mixed 21 59% 20.6 GB/s	Latency 59.7 67% 59.7 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 62.3% 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-Z97X-SLI-CF

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	703x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	471x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	209x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	265x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	126x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	115x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	57x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	47x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	42x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	72x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	52x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	46x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

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