Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 19% Surfboard	Desktop 68% Battle cruiser	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (21st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 79 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 57.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	25.3% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	59% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Very high background CPU (60%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H-CF (all builds)
Memory	7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors, ,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	7.5 Days
Run Date	Sep 23 '17 at 18:22
Run Duration	192 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	60%

PC Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4590-$188 151,366 User benchmarks, average bench 63% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	57.2% Above average	Memory 76.1 1-Core 80.8 2-Core 138 59% 98.5 Pts	4-Core 218 8-Core 254 31% 236 Pts	64-Core 229 14% 229 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 57.2% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Asus(1043 8506) CLim: 1443 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 382.5 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	25.3% Poor	Lighting 29.2 Reflection 51.9 Parallax 46.7 24% 42.6 fps	MRender 30.4 Gravity 36.9 Splatting 35.3 28% 34.2 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 25.3% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 320 Series 120GB-$89 9,651 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 112GB free Firmware: 4PC10362 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 32404 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 239 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 14 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 77 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 117 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 64203 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 65535 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 64203 (F2) Unknown 100 100 646747	39.4% Below average	Read 261 Write 134 Mixed 164 41% 186 MB/s	4K Read 18.4 4K Write 34.4 4K Mixed 13.6 64% 22.1 MB/s	DQ Read 20.7 DQ Write 62.2 DQ Mixed 29.6 26% 37.5 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 39.4% Great: 48%
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 49GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 13581 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 41 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1615047886772 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 49 (A8) Unknown 100 100 39 (A9) Unknown 100 100 1072 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 13 (AE) Unknown 100 100 30 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 59 59 253404512297 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 5768163427647 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 13827 (EA) Unknown 100 100 40422 (F1) Unknown 253 253 33728 (F2) Unknown 253 253 17669 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	59% Above average	Read 471 Write 313 Mixed 231 75% 339 MB/s	4K Read 19.8 4K Write 33.6 4K Mixed 9.89 60% 21.1 MB/s	DQ Read 28.5 DQ Write 128 DQ Mixed 9.21 27% 55.3 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 59% Great: 107%
HGST Deskstar NAS 4TB-$60 7,986 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 551GB free Firmware: MJAOA5E0 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 0 (02) Throughput performance 137 137 79 (03) Spinup time 178 178 51565691351 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 64 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 119 119 35 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 13587 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 60 (C0) Power-off retract count 82 82 21605 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 82 82 21605 (C2) HDA temperature 146 146 249109479465 (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 200 200 0	67.6% Good	Read 119 Write 116 Mixed 138 94% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.73 4K Mixed 0.21 81% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 92%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 524GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 71 70 8846 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 600 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 57310 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 403 (BF) G-sense error rate 252 252 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 61 41 253404184615 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 60 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 12494	42% Average	Read 68.5 Write 77.6 Mixed 68.3 54% 71.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.85 4K Mixed 0.51 117% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 42% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 122,541 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile)	49.1% Average	MC Read 15.5 MC Write 18.7 MC Mixed 19.4 51% 17.9 GB/s	SC Read 9.4 SC Write 11.6 SC Mixed 13.3 33% 11.4 GB/s	Latency 88.1 45% 88.1 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 49.1% Great: 72%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H-CF

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	445x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	194x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	140x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	126x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	89x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	73x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	38x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	31x
980 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $94Bench 251%, 262,559 samples	28x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	36x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	32x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 4x8GBCrucialBench 57%, 8,984 samples	21x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

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 $40	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