Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 123% UFO	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 103% UFO


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 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 93.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	132% 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	116% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	14.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 09 '18 at 23:27
Run Duration	172 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	4%

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 Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.8% Outstanding	Memory 97.4 1-Core 126 2-Core 253 90% 159 Pts	4-Core 486 8-Core 696 74% 591 Pts	64-Core 697 43% 697 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 93.8% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3602) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	132% Outstanding	Lighting 186 Reflection 203 Parallax 179 151% 189 fps	MRender 129 Gravity 180 Splatting 128 118% 146 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 132% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 186GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	116% Outstanding	Read 738 Write 548 Mixed 556 136% 614 MB/s	4K Read 54.1 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 25.9 170% 61.4 MB/s	DQ Read 57.6 DQ Write 114 DQ Mixed 23.3 36% 65 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 236%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 19GB free Firmware: 541ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 2779255 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 -56246891698440 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2061 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 560 (B1) Unknown 0 0 98 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 33 55 60133146657 (C2) HDA temperature 33 55 60133146657 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 2779255 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 2779255 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 2779255 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 8243 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7728 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7728 (F2) Unknown 0 0 10272	44.8% Average	Read 166 Write 88.3 Mixed 108 27% 121 MB/s	4K Read 24.4 4K Write 99 4K Mixed 12.5 105% 45.3 MB/s	DQ Read 24.9 DQ Write 97 DQ Mixed 10.2 23% 44 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 44.8% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 106362088 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3497 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 35184516 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6145 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1271 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 65551 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 65 43 73653420067 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 147 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 31338 (C2) HDA temperature 35 57 55834574883 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 120774480365362 (F1) Unknown 100 253 47100565593 (F2) Unknown 100 253 351899895157	76.6% Very good	Read 135 Write 132 Mixed 147 104% 138 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.14 61% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2016)-$114 34,353 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 951GB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 77 64 51736434 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1132 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 74951886 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 26560077760260 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 366 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 67 59 605421601 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 659 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4587 (C2) HDA temperature 33 41 81604378657 (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 27779848471234 (F1) Unknown 100 253 24739723224 (F2) Unknown 100 253 24920193652	77% Very good	Read 142 Write 127 Mixed 128 99% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 0.21 81% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 77% Great: 105%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Sniper DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GB 5,634 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	78.7% Very good	MC Read 28.5 MC Write 28.8 MC Mixed 24.1 78% 27.1 GB/s	SC Read 21.4 SC Write 23.9 SC Mixed 26.8 69% 24 GB/s	Latency 48.7 82% 48.7 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 78.7% Great: 72%

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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 3 - $169

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,218x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	633x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	396x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	479x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	200x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	198x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	160x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	76x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	69x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	136x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	99x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	96x

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Total price: $817

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 $179	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