Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 23% Surfboard	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 18% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 58.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	32.2% 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	101% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (32%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	27 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit farver,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 09 '18 at 13:24
Run Duration	238 Seconds
Run User	DNK-User
Background CPU	32%

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PC Performing as expected (55^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Pentium G3258-$31 23,497 User benchmarks, average bench 53% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 2 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	58.1% Above average	Memory 83.8 1-Core 90.7 2-Core 168 68% 114 Pts	4-Core 189 8-Core 194 26% 191 Pts	64-Core 186 12% 186 Pts
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 58.1% Great: 64%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1050-Ti-$59 946,701 User benchmarks, average bench 29% Asus(1043 85D3) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	32.2% Below average	Lighting 40.6 Reflection 32.5 Parallax 38.4 33% 37.2 fps	MRender 38.4 Gravity 38.1 Splatting 36 31% 37.5 fps
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 32.2% Great: 33%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 128GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q 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 96 96 16324 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 678 (B1) Unknown 97 97 49 (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 69 51 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 385 (F1) Unknown 99 99 18738926944	99.2% Outstanding	Read 500 Write 397 Mixed 417 97% 438 MB/s	4K Read 37.6 4K Write 91.8 4K Mixed 41.4 159% 56.9 MB/s	DQ Read 41.5 DQ Write 244 DQ Mixed 99.5 89% 128 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 99.2% Great: 124%
Kingston HyperX Predator AHCI PCIe M.2 240GB-$141 6,458 User benchmarks, average bench 131% 83GB free (System drive) Firmware: OC34L5TP Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 258 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 5314 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 218 (64) Unknown 100 100 4387328 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 0 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 89 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 0 0 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 66 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 9502 (B3) Unknown 0 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 36 100 227634642980 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 258 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 119 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 258 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 8266 (F1) Unknown 100 100 6560 (F2) Unknown 100 100 7128 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 9328	101% Outstanding	Read 710 Write 620 Mixed 656 148% 662 MB/s	4K Read 31.1 4K Write 79.3 4K Mixed 17.4 111% 42.6 MB/s	DQ Read 35.9 DQ Write 93.6 DQ Mixed 17.4 27% 49 MB/s
Poor: 84% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 159%
Toshiba A100 240GB 5,900 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 63GB free Firmware: SBFA10.1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 9167 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 525 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 195 195 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 445 (C2) HDA temperature 71 55 193274707997	65.1% Good	Read 508 Write 98 Mixed 158 55% 255 MB/s	4K Read 35 4K Write 65.3 4K Mixed 8.9 99% 36.4 MB/s	DQ Read 309 DQ Write 196 DQ Mixed 11.5 74% 172 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 65.1% Great: 91%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 55751640 (03) Spinup time 94 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 87 87 14037 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 151401326 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11980 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 477 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 58 538509341 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 96 95 9984 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 77 77 47038 (C2) HDA temperature 29 42 68719476765 (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 74861279977770 (F1) Unknown 100 253 84735756065 (F2) Unknown 100 253 632009395066	90.7% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 143 Mixed 147 116% 154 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.21 72% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 90.7% Great: 96%
Seagate ST2000LM007-1R8174 2TB 71,657 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 1TB free Firmware: SBK2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 82 64 173442100 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5913 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 4432355723 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 -34815004894092 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 353 (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 75 61 454492185 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 5 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 174 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 87 87 27602 (C2) HDA temperature 25 40 64424509465 (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 45243185497876 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4553448370 (F2) Unknown 100 253 5143116444 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	57.5% Above average	Read 88.2 Write 111 Mixed 78.8 69% 92.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 4.58 4K Mixed 0.5 169% 1.92 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 57.5% Great: 67%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 2TB 9,084 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 1.5TB free, PID a202 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	39.9% Below average	Read 91.6 Write 96.6 Mixed 84 117% 90.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.78 4K Mixed 0.17 67% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 39.9% Great: 49%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMY16GX3M2A2400C11 0215 CMY16GX3M2A2133C11 0215 CMY16GX3M2A2400C11 0215 CMY16GX3M2A2133C11 32GB 31 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing below potential (23^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	47.5% Average	MC Read 12.7 MC Write 18.7 MC Mixed 16.3 45% 15.9 GB/s	SC Read 13.9 SC Write 17.9 SC Mixed 16.2 46% 16 GB/s	Latency 73.8 54% 73.8 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 47.5% Great: 85%

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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	841x
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	107x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	96x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	60x
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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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