Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 91.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	94.5% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	158% 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 19 '18 at 18:34
Run Duration	154 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.3% Outstanding	Memory 94.9 1-Core 129 2-Core 260 90% 161 Pts	4-Core 474 8-Core 672 72% 573 Pts	64-Core 685 42% 685 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 91.3% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Zotac(19DA 1396) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1607 MHz, MLim: 1805 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.5% Outstanding	Lighting 123 Reflection 123 Parallax 112 100% 119 fps	MRender 101 Gravity 108 Splatting 99.9 84% 103 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 94.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 238GB free Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3673 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 969 (B1) Unknown 99 99 58 (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 73 49 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 131 (F1) Unknown 99 99 21956266649	112% Outstanding	Read 503 Write 496 Mixed 504 112% 501 MB/s	4K Read 37.8 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 47.5 178% 65.9 MB/s	DQ Read 40.5 DQ Write 276 DQ Mixed 105 96% 140 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 124%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 500GB 13,939 User benchmarks, average bench 179% 168GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. Max speed: Unknown Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	158% Outstanding	Read 984 Write 980 Mixed 1,002 221% 988 MB/s	4K Read 38.5 4K Write 72 4K Mixed 37.6 145% 49.3 MB/s	DQ Read 324 DQ Write 320 DQ Mixed 134 152% 259 MB/s
Poor: 82% ↑ This bench: 158% Great: 313%
WD Black 4TB (2016)-$174 9,888 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: 81.H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 136 108 (03) Spinup time 100 100 42949672960 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 9 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 128 128 18 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 35 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 9 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 9 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 9 (C2) HDA temperature 162 162 193274773541 (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	91.2% Outstanding	Read 159 Write 158 Mixed 154 118% 157 MB/s	4K Read 0.95 4K Write 3.28 4K Mixed 0.57 164% 1.6 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 91.2% Great: 113%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 2TB 13,609 User benchmarks, average bench 146% 741GB free Firmware: 1.0. Max speed: Unknown Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	232% Outstanding	Read 636 Write 169 Mixed 153 234% 320 MB/s	4K Read 15.4 4K Write 3.16 4K Mixed 0.68 775% 6.41 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 232% Great: 213%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsZ DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 1,961 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	59.7% Above average	MC Read 20.4 MC Write 21.6 MC Mixed 18 57% 20 GB/s	SC Read 16.5 SC Write 22.9 SC Mixed 19.6 56% 19.7 GB/s	Latency 57.5 70% 57.5 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 59.7% Great: 96%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 - $175

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	693x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	195x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	101x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	147x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	81x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	66x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	50x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	36x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	32x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	51x
HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GBKingstonBench 61%, 11,630 samples	40x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	36x

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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 $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