Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 70% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	103% 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	92.7% 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors, , 3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140425
Uptime	1.9 Days
Run Date	Jan 31 '16 at 17:59
Run Duration	141 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	85.4% Excellent	Memory 91.3 1-Core 112 2-Core 230 82% 144 Pts	4-Core 432 8-Core 597 65% 514 Pts	64-Core 600 37% 600 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 85.4% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Nvidia(10DE 1151) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6175 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	Lighting 153 Reflection 82.8 Parallax 68.3 124% 101 fps	MRender 80.7 Gravity 83.3 Splatting 74.3 64% 79.4 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 250GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 850 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 238 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (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 63 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 34 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3574976599	92.7% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 408 Mixed 413 99% 443 MB/s	4K Read 43.7 4K Write 90.1 4K Mixed 27.9 150% 53.9 MB/s	DQ Read 46.1 DQ Write 103 DQ Mixed 27.8 34% 58.8 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 92.7% Great: 134%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 223GB free Firmware: 541ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 3793055 (05) Reallocated sector count 94 94 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 55997783608085 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1242 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 678 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 26 40 1009319936026 (C2) HDA temperature 26 40 1009319936026 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3793055 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3793055 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3793055 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 21474836480 (E9) Unknown 0 0 3624 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2498 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2498 (F2) Unknown 0 0 6044	63.9% Good	Read 503 Write 199 Mixed 265 71% 322 MB/s	4K Read 23.5 4K Write 97.1 4K Mixed 10.6 101% 43.7 MB/s	DQ Read 28.4 DQ Write 113 DQ Mixed 39.1 39% 60.1 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 63.9% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 662GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 2393600 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2344 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4284828 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2607 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1161 (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 72 61 125024403484 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 584 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 10155 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 -140737488355300 (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 79753247720361 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5608053254 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4988416756	85.5% Excellent	Read 140 Write 159 Mixed 98.4 98% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.21 80% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 85.5% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 992123 (997123) 2x8GB 44 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	32.5% Below average	MC Read 11.2 MC Write 10.7 MC Mixed 8.5 29% 10.1 GB/s	SC Read 10.1 SC Write 11.6 SC Mixed 10.5 31% 10.7 GB/s	Latency 65.3 61% 65.3 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 32.5% Great: 84%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 - $169

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,219x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	633x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	397x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	480x
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 $94Bench 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 $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