Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 89.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86.2% 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	143% 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	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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Sep 17 '17 at 22:38
Run Duration	143 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (71^st 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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.4% Excellent	Memory 96.6 1-Core 129 2-Core 257 91% 161 Pts	4-Core 444 8-Core 635 68% 540 Pts	64-Core 675 42% 675 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 89.4% Great: 87%

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: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	86.2% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 114 Parallax 98.3 90% 107 fps	MRender 96 Gravity 98.3 Splatting 96.8 79% 97 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 275GB-$100 67,541 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 229GB free Firmware: M0CR040 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 97 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 26 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 1 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 65 150325035038 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (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 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 119690470 (F7) Unknown 100 100 3754037 (F8) Unknown 100 100 378590 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1248 (D2) Unknown 100 100 8	72.5% Very good	Read 483 Write 339 Mixed 339 86% 387 MB/s	4K Read 27.4 4K Write 84.1 4K Mixed 14.2 104% 41.9 MB/s	DQ Read 27.7 DQ Write 86 DQ Mixed 21.7 27% 45.1 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 95%
Corsair Force MP500 NVMe PCIe M.2 240GB-$43 14,860 User benchmarks, average bench 151% 115GB free (System drive) Firmware: E7FM02.1 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	143% Outstanding	Read 786 Write 712 Mixed 748 167% 749 MB/s	4K Read 40.9 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 29.3 157% 59.4 MB/s	DQ Read 505 DQ Write 478 DQ Mixed 28.6 148% 337 MB/s
Poor: 106% ↑ This bench: 143% Great: 210%
Toshiba HG5d Q Series 128GB 2,624 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 77GB free Firmware: HTRAN101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd 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 11857 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1829 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AD) Unknown 174 174 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 116 (C2) HDA temperature 72 55 193274183708 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	90.4% Outstanding	Read 521 Write 478 Mixed 499 112% 499 MB/s	4K Read 25.3 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 24.1 126% 52 MB/s	DQ Read 27.3 DQ Write 113 DQ Mixed 23.4 32% 54.7 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 90.4% Great: 102%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLT8G3D1869DT1TX0. 2x8GB 2,378 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	70.7% Very good	MC Read 25 MC Write 25.7 MC Mixed 22.1 69% 24.3 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 22 61% 21.5 GB/s	Latency 51.8 77% 51.8 ns
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 78%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 - $169

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,220x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	633x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	398x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	481x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	200x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	198x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	160x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	76x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	69x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	136x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	99x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	97x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $817

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