Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SOC Force

Performance Results


Gaming 119% UFO	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 92% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	136% 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	80% 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SOC Force (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150919
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 30 '17 at 16:00
Run Duration	175 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.8% Excellent	Memory 97.1 1-Core 118 2-Core 229 85% 148 Pts	4-Core 454 8-Core 455 61% 455 Pts	64-Core 460 28% 460 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 82%

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: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	136% Outstanding	Lighting 193 Reflection 205 Parallax 185 157% 194 fps	MRender 133 Gravity 186 Splatting 127 120% 149 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 136% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 133GB free (System drive) Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 19403 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1796 (A5) Unknown 100 100 648671397552 (A6) Unknown 100 100 5 (A7) Unknown 100 100 52 (A8) Unknown 100 100 39 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 23 (AE) Unknown 100 100 166 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 69 54 231929085983 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 6622910612998 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 10714 (EA) Unknown 100 100 35901 (F1) Unknown 253 253 25629 (F2) Unknown 253 253 33788 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	80% Excellent	Read 502 Write 309 Mixed 256 78% 356 MB/s	4K Read 33.2 4K Write 72.3 4K Mixed 14.4 107% 40 MB/s	DQ Read 316 DQ Write 153 DQ Mixed 39.7 81% 169 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 80% Great: 108%
SanDisk Ultra II 120GB-$76 9,139 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 90GB free Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 18269 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1586 (A5) Unknown 100 100 12890341435 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 29 (A8) Unknown 100 100 9 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 29 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 69 39 167504642079 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 120260395036 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 121 (EA) Unknown 100 100 220 (F1) Unknown 253 253 150 (F2) Unknown 253 253 242 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	83.6% Excellent	Read 454 Write 334 Mixed 312 81% 367 MB/s	4K Read 34.5 4K Write 76 4K Mixed 19.2 117% 43.2 MB/s	DQ Read 288 DQ Write 206 DQ Mixed 45.7 88% 180 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 83.6% Great: 93%
Seagate Archive HDD 8TB (2015)-$130 2,225 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 2.5TB free Firmware: AR13 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 167955904 (03) Spinup time 91 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 79 79 22163 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 8629614079 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 18810 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1578 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 92 3234159723250 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 52 605618208 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 6077 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 23521 (C2) HDA temperature 32 48 47244640288 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 118 99 167955904 (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 -29523605189823 (F1) Unknown 100 253 17900697514 (F2) Unknown 100 253 491475431417
Poor: 21% Great: 87%
Seagate NAS HDD 4TB-$145 4,962 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 948GB free Firmware: SC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 106355600 (03) Spinup time 94 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 69 69 31809 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 51 51 2031579088069 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 26215 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2157 (B8) Unknown 99 99 1 (BB) vendor-specific 79 79 21 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032837 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 711 (BE) vendor-specific 69 50 571998239 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 173 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 84 84 32401 (C2) HDA temperature 31 50 30064771103 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 260	54.9% Above average	Read 93.3 Write 98 Mixed 87.3 70% 92.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.18 60% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 54.9% Great: 100%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 2133 C11 4x4GB 4,968 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	79.9% Very good	MC Read 29.5 MC Write 30.8 MC Mixed 23.7 80% 28 GB/s	SC Read 20 SC Write 21.4 SC Mixed 26.6 65% 22.7 GB/s	Latency 50 80% 50 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 79.9% Great: 79%

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Desktop 84%

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Workstation 67%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SOC Force - $123

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	61x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	19x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	12x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	14x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	13x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	8x

SSD
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	12x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	5x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	5x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	6x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	6x
Ares DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 56%, 645 samples	4x

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Total price: $1,001

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 $178	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