Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 95% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 79.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	120% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	99.2% 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.

System	Gigabyte Z97X-SLI
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI-CF (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160303
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Nov 17 '17 at 03:09
Run Duration	144 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4440-$128 81,111 User benchmarks, average bench 61% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.1 GHz, turbo 3.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	79.2% Very good	Memory 94.6 1-Core 90.2 2-Core 193 74% 126 Pts	4-Core 372 8-Core 366 50% 369 Pts	64-Core 371 23% 371 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 79.2% Great: 70%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing below potential (33^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	120% Outstanding	Lighting 158 Reflection 202 Parallax 180 129% 180 fps	MRender 130 Gravity 177 Splatting 128 118% 145 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 202GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	99.2% Outstanding	Read 694 Write 530 Mixed 553 132% 592 MB/s	4K Read 26.4 4K Write 34.3 4K Mixed 17.9 81% 26.2 MB/s	DQ Read 373 DQ Write 296 DQ Mixed 16.8 99% 229 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 99.2% Great: 254%
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 111GB free Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 90 90 3467183 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 68 68 -136390981423647 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3006 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 89 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3467183 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3467183 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3467183 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 21264 (EA) Unknown 0 0 12753 (F1) Unknown 0 0 12753 (F2) Unknown 0 0 19607	49.6% Average	Read 486 Write 102 Mixed 185 56% 258 MB/s	4K Read 22 4K Write 41.4 4K Mixed 11.2 70% 24.9 MB/s	DQ Read 26 DQ Write 139 DQ Mixed 9.9 29% 58.4 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 49.6% Great: 82%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 479GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 95720288 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3179 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 27231782 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 16377 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2018 (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 73 68 454230043 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 49 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 304423 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 34359738395 (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 47845935686546 (F1) Unknown 100 253 17431109755 (F2) Unknown 100 253 142202666401	78.9% Very good	Read 144 Write 131 Mixed 129 101% 135 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.69 4K Mixed 0.22 76% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 78.9% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-12800CL9-4GBXL 0420 F3-12800CL9-4GBRL 0420 F3-12800CL9-4GBXL 0420 F3-12800CL9-4GBRL 16GB 360 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	64.2% Good	MC Read 22.9 MC Write 23.4 MC Mixed 20.8 64% 22.4 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 18.2 SC Mixed 19.9 52% 18.2 GB/s	Latency 58.3 69% 58.3 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 64.2% Great: 63%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI-CF

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	705x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	471x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	211x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	269x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	126x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	115x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	57x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	47x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	42x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	72x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	53x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	46x

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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