Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Battleship	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 89.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86.5% 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	87% 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	10.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	9.8 Days
Run Date	Oct 30 '17 at 00:47
Run Duration	166 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing as expected (56^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)	89.3% Excellent	Memory 96.8 1-Core 137 2-Core 254 92% 162 Pts	4-Core 441 8-Core 702 70% 572 Pts	64-Core 707 44% 707 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 89.3% 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: 384.94 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	86.5% Excellent	Lighting 108 Reflection 115 Parallax 99.6 88% 108 fps	MRender 104 Gravity 100 Splatting 102 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata Premier SP550 960GB-$109 1,022 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 891GB free Firmware: O1126A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^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 100 100 173 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 160 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 388 (A3) Unknown 100 100 89 (A4) Unknown 100 100 12499 (A5) Unknown 100 100 14 (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 44 (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 65657 (F2) Unknown 100 100 63032 (F5) Unknown 100 100 99992	69.4% Good	Read 421 Write 250 Mixed 252 68% 308 MB/s	4K Read 19.7 4K Write 62.7 4K Mixed 22.3 92% 34.9 MB/s	DQ Read 253 DQ Write 173 DQ Mixed 10.1 62% 146 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 69.4% Great: 95%
Kingston SHSS37A480G 480GB 14,802 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 89GB free Firmware: SAFM00.U Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd 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 7846 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 603 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 554 (AD) Unknown 100 100 983095 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 11 (C2) HDA temperature 64 46 231929348132 (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 6891 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 5149 (F2) Unknown 100 100 8010 (F4) Unknown 100 100 15 (F5) Unknown 100 100 55 (F6) Unknown 100 100 2113088	58.2% Above average	Read 507 Write 15.1 Mixed 502 75% 342 MB/s	4K Read 23.3 4K Write 92.4 4K Mixed 12.6 100% 42.8 MB/s	DQ Read 22.8 DQ Write 352 DQ Mixed 11.2 61% 129 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 58.2% Great: 110%
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 33GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9951 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 889 (B1) Unknown 96 96 75 (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 56 41 44 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 65 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15578975112	87% Excellent	Read 505 Write 406 Mixed 417 98% 443 MB/s	4K Read 37 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 19.5 134% 52.5 MB/s	DQ Read 33 DQ Write 108 DQ Mixed 103 69% 81.3 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 115%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2016)-$114 34,353 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 3TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 76 64 36531572 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 593 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 18710806 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 -124966368441534 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 118 (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 65 52 672399395 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 386 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 8488 (C2) HDA temperature 35 48 73014444067 (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 -93200790322258 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2951687065 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1344497272	93.1% Outstanding	Read 152 Write 173 Mixed 140 116% 155 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.97 4K Mixed 0.22 92% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 93.1% 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 27.1 MC Write 27.6 MC Mixed 22.1 73% 25.6 GB/s	SC Read 19.3 SC Write 24.8 SC Mixed 25.3 66% 23.1 GB/s	Latency 51 78% 51 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 79%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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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	347x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	156x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	317x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	112x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	108x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	96x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	61x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $37Bench 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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Total price: $810

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 $182	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) $30	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