Gigabyte GA-Z97M-D3H

Performance Results


Gaming 59% Gunboat	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 49% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	62.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	92.5% 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, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97M-D3H (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 06 '18 at 04:35
Run Duration	163 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.85 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.2% Excellent	Memory 95.5 1-Core 111 2-Core 235 84% 147 Pts	4-Core 428 8-Core 601 65% 515 Pts	64-Core 611 38% 611 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 87.2% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-X-$781 8,241 User benchmarks, average bench 59% AMD(1002 0B36) CLim: 1075 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.12.2 Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	62.9% Good	Lighting 79 Reflection 59.5 Parallax 112 64% 83.4 fps	MRender 59.6 Gravity 82 Splatting 76.6 60% 72.7 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 62.9% Great: 65%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 33GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7765 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2187 (B1) Unknown 96 96 80 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 48 35 52 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 12 (EB) Unknown 99 99 903 (F1) Unknown 99 99 22905529474	92.5% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 411 Mixed 412 99% 447 MB/s	4K Read 43.2 4K Write 90.4 4K Mixed 27 148% 53.5 MB/s	DQ Read 45.6 DQ Write 101 DQ Mixed 26.6 34% 57.6 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 92.5% Great: 124%
AMD Radeon R3 240GB 4,257 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 25GB free Firmware: P0422C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^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 3889 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1509 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 206 (A3) Unknown 100 100 14 (A4) Unknown 100 100 20782 (A5) Unknown 100 100 19 (A6) Unknown 100 100 4 (A7) Unknown 100 100 10 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 1 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 450 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 30 (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 3 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 66219 (F2) Unknown 100 100 145668 (F5) Unknown 100 100 83128	62.2% Good	Read 490 Write 258 Mixed 261 74% 336 MB/s	4K Read 25.3 4K Write 56.8 4K Mixed 13.4 86% 31.8 MB/s	DQ Read 29.3 DQ Write 61.2 DQ Mixed 39.9 32% 43.4 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 62.2% Great: 90%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 500GB-$49 47,332 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 86GB free Firmware: 0002SDM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 78 29592638 (03) Spinup time 99 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5369 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 14 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 271439795661 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 29045 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3618 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 65535 (BC) Unknown 100 96 8590131345 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 53 35 102435761618991 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 135 (C0) Power-off retract count 89 89 22494 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 836102 (C2) HDA temperature 47 65 25769803823 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 45 28 29592638 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 2 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -113180978160838 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3550403955 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3750929053 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	44.1% Average	Read 80.8 Write 73.1 Mixed 70.6 56% 74.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.26 61% 0.53 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 44.1% Great: 58%
Hitachi HTS545050B9A300 500GB-$71 21,137 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 56GB free Firmware: PB4OC64G Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 154 154 77309411329 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 4306 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 12502 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3833 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 153 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 103188 (C2) HDA temperature 127 127 231928954923 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	43% Average	Read 75.3 Write 74.4 Mixed 66.7 54% 72.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.35 86% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 43% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
AMD R934G2401U1S 4x4GB 79 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	72.9% Very good	MC Read 26.9 MC Write 27.1 MC Mixed 21.8 72% 25.3 GB/s	SC Read 19.9 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 24.3 63% 22.1 GB/s	Latency 55.5 72% 55.5 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 72.9% Great: 77%

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Gaming 9%

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Desktop 73%

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Workstation 8%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97M-D3H - $126

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	192x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	156x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	91x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	98x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	68x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	47x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	39x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	28x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	20x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	44x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	30x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 58%, 8,730 samples	12x

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Total price: $589

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 $184	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) $35	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