Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3

Performance Results


Gaming 57% Gunboat	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 48% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	65.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	85.9% 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.

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

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3 (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150731
Uptime	3.2 Days
Run Date	Jul 25 '17 at 17:07
Run Duration	177 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	22%

PC Performing as expected (59^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 above expectations (84^th percentile)	84% Excellent	Memory 91.4 1-Core 122 2-Core 234 85% 149 Pts	4-Core 415 8-Core 589 63% 502 Pts	64-Core 637 39% 637 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-$199 18,014 User benchmarks, average bench 58% Sapphire(174B E331) CLim: 1070 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.7.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	65.4% Good	Lighting 84.5 Reflection 58.4 Parallax 105 69% 82.6 fps	MRender 58.5 Gravity 78.9 Splatting 75 59% 70.8 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 65.4% Great: 62%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 57GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2706 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1035 (B1) Unknown 98 98 32 (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 57 48 43 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 8 (EB) Unknown 99 99 55 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13717936320	85.9% Excellent	Read 493 Write 402 Mixed 418 97% 437 MB/s	4K Read 29.6 4K Write 94.9 4K Mixed 19.1 120% 47.8 MB/s	DQ Read 33.2 DQ Write 275 DQ Mixed 96.9 92% 135 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 85.9% Great: 124%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 46GB free Firmware: 520ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 12845969 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 -48026324296594 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2171 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 350 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 36 45 38657654820 (C2) HDA temperature 36 45 38657654820 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 12845969 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 12845969 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 12845969 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 7404 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7321 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7321 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9418	56.7% Above average	Read 476 Write 130 Mixed 193 58% 266 MB/s	4K Read 20.9 4K Write 57.6 4K Mixed 14 80% 30.8 MB/s	DQ Read 154 DQ Write 130 DQ Mixed 43 59% 109 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 56.7% Great: 73%
WD Black 1.5TB (2010) 6,983 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 1TB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 7650 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1415 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 639 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1284 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 60 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1354 (C2) HDA temperature 115 83 37 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 1	84.9% Excellent	Read 159 Write 137 Mixed 131 107% 142 MB/s	4K Read 1.19 4K Write 2.36 4K Mixed 0.52 151% 1.36 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 85%
Seagate ST3640323AS 640GB-$134 2,758 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 161GB free Firmware: SD35 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 189339979 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 5017 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 7 (07) Seek error rate 58 46 236262162872 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12756 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 107 (0C) Power cycle count 98 37 2339 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 1 34364261295 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 1542 (BE) vendor-specific 70 43 271154741278 (C2) HDA temperature 30 57 47244640286 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 38 31 189339979 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	42.7% Average	Read 75 Write 73.6 Mixed 90.7 61% 79.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.29 4K Mixed 0.3 75% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 42.7% Great: 66%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ares DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 1,271 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	55.8% Above average	MC Read 20.2 MC Write 20.5 MC Mixed 16.1 54% 18.9 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 20.6 SC Mixed 18.6 51% 17.8 GB/s	Latency 65.2 61% 65.2 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 55.8% Great: 86%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3 - $102

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	615x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	470x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	416x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	291x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	204x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	156x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	77x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	70x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	63x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	81x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	77x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	38x

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Total price: $750

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