Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 37% Jet ski	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 31% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (32nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 68 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 68.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	52.2% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	51.6% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Very high background CPU (35%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	6.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores, 4096 x 2160 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	3.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 09 '18 at 21:04
Run Duration	175 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	35%

PC Performing below expectations (32^nd 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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	68.4% Good	Memory 77.8 1-Core 101 2-Core 204 72% 127 Pts	4-Core 320 8-Core 482 50% 401 Pts	64-Core 500 31% 500 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 68.4% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 290X-$549 37,353 User benchmarks, average bench 51% MSI(1462 3080) ≥ 4GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 22.19.662.4 Performing below potential (76^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	52.2% Above average	Lighting 64.9 Reflection 54.3 Parallax 80 53% 66.4 fps	MRender 55.2 Gravity 54.7 Splatting 71.6 51% 60.5 fps
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 52.2% Great: 55%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 9GB free (System drive) Firmware: 60AABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 222135363 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 30047591225798 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 843 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 357 (B1) Unknown 0 0 92 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 29 57 47248375837 (C2) HDA temperature 29 57 47248375837 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 222135363 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 222135363 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 222135363 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 92 92 4294967296 (E9) Unknown 0 0 41226 (EA) Unknown 0 0 23266 (F1) Unknown 0 0 23266 (F2) Unknown 0 0 14841 (F4) Unknown 89 89 196739404	51.6% Above average	Read 410 Write 107 Mixed 152 48% 223 MB/s	4K Read 17.9 4K Write 87.4 4K Mixed 12.7 90% 39.3 MB/s	DQ Read 22.8 DQ Write 101 DQ Mixed 8.51 22% 44 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 51.6% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 260GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 84 63 235211639 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4612 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 15089106 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 10047 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 122 (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 71 57 621805597 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4994 (C2) HDA temperature 29 9 38654705693 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 3 1 235211639 (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 -117372866257781 (F1) Unknown 100 253 9226626541 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4122759117	82.4% Excellent	Read 146 Write 142 Mixed 106 98% 131 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.22 78% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 112%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 137GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 169 2391 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3040 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 16317 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 340 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 125 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2927 (C2) HDA temperature 111 90 32 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	63.3% Good	Read 115 Write 105 Mixed 112 84% 111 MB/s	4K Read 1.27 4K Write 2.48 4K Mixed 0.33 136% 1.36 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 63.3% Great: 109%
Seagate ST3500312CS 500GB-$24 89,637 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 34GB free Firmware: CA12 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 123213320 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 37 37 65535 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 92286299 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10686 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 119 (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 72 48 655425564 (C2) HDA temperature 28 52 73014444060 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 54 50 123213320 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	45.4% Average	Read 79.7 Write 78.4 Mixed 65.6 56% 74.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.34 83% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 45.4% Great: 60%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 2133 C9 2x8GB 3,312 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	36.9% Below average	MC Read 12.1 MC Write 13.8 MC Mixed 12.1 36% 12.7 GB/s	SC Read 8.8 SC Write 11 SC Mixed 10.6 29% 10.1 GB/s	Latency 84.8 47% 84.8 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 36.9% Great: 81%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

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	348x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	158x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	317x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	113x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	108x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	96x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	61x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 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 $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 $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