Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 80% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 64% Destroyer


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. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	102% 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	106% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3 (all builds)
Memory	7.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jan 13 '18 at 18:54
Run Duration	279 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	11%

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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 Core i7-4770-$75 176,321 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	74.7% Very good	Memory 85.8 1-Core 102 2-Core 186 73% 125 Pts	4-Core 343 8-Core 545 55% 444 Pts	64-Core 548 34% 548 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 74.7% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3360) ≥ 4GB; Sea Hawk CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing below potential (51^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	102% Outstanding	Lighting 132 Reflection 141 Parallax 133 108% 135 fps	MRender 106 Gravity 127 Splatting 103 91% 112 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 52GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5087 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 535 (B1) Unknown 97 97 57 (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 70 62 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 7 (F1) Unknown 99 99 21302740585	106% Outstanding	Read 497 Write 400 Mixed 406 97% 435 MB/s	4K Read 41.7 4K Write 82.7 4K Mixed 40.9 159% 55.1 MB/s	DQ Read 343 DQ Write 250 DQ Mixed 113 134% 235 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 124%
Samsung PM871 2.5 7mm 128GB 2,429 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 25GB free Firmware: EMT02D0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 758 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 94 94 123 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 391 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11480442939 (F2) Unknown 99 99 12728851699	70.4% Very good	Read 500 Write 150 Mixed 231 64% 294 MB/s	4K Read 33.3 4K Write 47.6 4K Mixed 30.3 115% 37.1 MB/s	DQ Read 226 DQ Write 49 DQ Mixed 79.5 73% 118 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 70.4% Great: 87%
Samsung MZ7LN256HCHP-000H1 256GB 2,903 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 6GB free Firmware: EMT02H0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 3771 (0B) Calibration retry count 99 99 30 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 384 (AA) Unknown 100 100 767 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 13 (AE) Unknown 99 99 30 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 17 (BE) vendor-specific 70 56 30 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0	93.5% Outstanding	Read 504 Write 271 Mixed 287 78% 354 MB/s	4K Read 34.4 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 35 150% 56.8 MB/s	DQ Read 344 DQ Write 165 DQ Mixed 93.6 112% 201 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 102%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: HP34 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 69200064 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1869 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 9124925364 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15310 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1842 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1121758627 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 56 26207256601 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 151 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 8188 (C2) HDA temperature 25 44 -140737488355303 (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 200 200 0	96.9% Outstanding	Read 169 Write 170 Mixed 168 127% 169 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.31 88% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 96.9% Great: 114%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 2TB 3,115 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 282GB free, PID 0200 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile)	17.8% Very poor	Read 38.7 Write 38 Mixed 14.9 37% 30.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 1.24 4K Mixed 0.19 50% 0.58 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 17.8% Great: 44%
WD My Passport 1TB 12,840 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 62GB free, PID 0748 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	21.8% Poor	Read 40.4 Write 42 Mixed 39.3 52% 40.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 2.18 4K Mixed 0.22 83% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 21.8% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378B5173QH0-CK0 4x4GB 3,356 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	54.9% Above average	MC Read 19.8 MC Write 20.7 MC Mixed 16.3 54% 18.9 GB/s	SC Read 13.8 SC Write 19.2 SC Mixed 17.3 48% 16.8 GB/s	Latency 71.4 56% 71.4 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 54.9% Great: 69%

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Gaming 38%

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Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 30%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3

CPU
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	621x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	541x
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	359x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	307x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	227x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	207x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	159x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	118x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $37Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	92x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	147x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	65x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	62x

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Value: 53% - Above average

Total price: $353

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 $184	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