Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 70% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 89.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	87.7% 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	94.1% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	9 Days
Run Date	Jul 22 '17 at 00:44
Run Duration	157 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (68^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.7% Excellent	Memory 97 1-Core 138 2-Core 262 94% 166 Pts	4-Core 444 8-Core 721 71% 582 Pts	64-Core 724 45% 724 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 89.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8598) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2177 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	87.7% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 117 Parallax 100 90% 109 fps	MRender 104 Gravity 103 Splatting 99.9 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.7% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata Premier SP550 960GB-$109 1,022 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 893GB free Firmware: O1126A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^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 100 100 135 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 94 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 388 (A3) Unknown 100 100 89 (A4) Unknown 100 100 12292 (A5) Unknown 100 100 10 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 3 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 23 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 1 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 65376 (F2) Unknown 100 100 62716 (F5) Unknown 100 100 98336	71.3% Very good	Read 408 Write 247 Mixed 246 66% 300 MB/s	4K Read 28 4K Write 65.4 4K Mixed 20.1 103% 37.8 MB/s	DQ Read 254 DQ Write 174 DQ Mixed 41.2 78% 157 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 71.3% Great: 95%
Kingston SHSS37A480G 480GB 14,802 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 124GB free Firmware: SAFM00.U Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6117 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 537 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 554 (AD) Unknown 100 100 852011 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 10 (C2) HDA temperature 70 46 231929348126 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 6106 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4679 (F2) Unknown 100 100 7319 (F4) Unknown 100 100 13 (F5) Unknown 100 100 43 (F6) Unknown 100 100 1847296	98.2% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 497 Mixed 509 114% 508 MB/s	4K Read 27.3 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 12 118% 51.7 MB/s	DQ Read 274 DQ Write 353 DQ Mixed 13.7 94% 214 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 98.2% Great: 110%
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 53GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8204 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 823 (B1) Unknown 96 96 64 (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 63 41 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 65 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13510530859	94.1% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 409 Mixed 416 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 42.7 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 26.2 155% 58.8 MB/s	DQ Read 43 DQ Write 114 DQ Mixed 25.4 35% 60.7 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 94.1% Great: 115%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2016)-$114 34,353 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 3.5TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 64 211352072 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 392 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 7710490 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 71786083386480 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 53 (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 76 52 404160536 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 269 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2896 (C2) HDA temperature 24 48 85899345944 (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 32976758898846 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1665658763 (F2) Unknown 100 253 466754945	93.4% Outstanding	Read 177 Write 149 Mixed 140 116% 155 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.99 4K Mixed 0.26 92% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 93.4% Great: 105%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GB 7,967 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	74.6% Very good	MC Read 27.3 MC Write 27.7 MC Mixed 21.9 73% 25.6 GB/s	SC Read 19.5 SC Write 24.8 SC Mixed 24.2 65% 22.8 GB/s	Latency 50.1 80% 50.1 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 79%

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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 $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