Gigabyte GA-Z97M-D3H

Performance Results


Gaming 55% Yacht	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 83.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	60.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	92.8% 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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97M-D3H (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	4.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 14 '18 at 00:59
Run Duration	168 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (56^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)	83.6% Excellent	Memory 95.3 1-Core 115 2-Core 224 83% 145 Pts	4-Core 388 8-Core 604 61% 496 Pts	64-Core 605 37% 605 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 83.6% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-X-$781 8,241 User benchmarks, average bench 59% AMD(1002 0B36) CLim: 1050 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.12.2 Performing below potential (57^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	60.7% Good	Lighting 77.9 Reflection 58.2 Parallax 112 64% 82.6 fps	MRender 57.6 Gravity 66.7 Splatting 74.9 55% 66.4 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 60.7% Great: 65%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 27GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8482 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2208 (B1) Unknown 96 96 83 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 47 35 53 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 12 (EB) Unknown 99 99 903 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23466727085	92.8% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 414 Mixed 414 100% 447 MB/s	4K Read 43.7 4K Write 93.3 4K Mixed 26.2 149% 54.4 MB/s	DQ Read 45.2 DQ Write 101 DQ Mixed 26.1 33% 57.4 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 92.8% Great: 124%
AMD Radeon R3 240GB 4,257 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 25GB free Firmware: P0422C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4571 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1530 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 206 (A3) Unknown 100 100 14 (A4) Unknown 100 100 21777 (A5) Unknown 100 100 19 (A6) Unknown 100 100 4 (A7) Unknown 100 100 10 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 1 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 450 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 100 100 3 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 68837 (F2) Unknown 100 100 159595 (F5) Unknown 100 100 87108	68.8% Good	Read 489 Write 248 Mixed 264 73% 334 MB/s	4K Read 25.2 4K Write 58.1 4K Mixed 13.2 86% 32.2 MB/s	DQ Read 253 DQ Write 167 DQ Mixed 12.9 63% 144 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 68.8% Great: 90%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 500GB-$49 47,332 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 52GB free Firmware: 0002SDM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 78 161674655 (03) Spinup time 99 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5696 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 14 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 275740305982 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 29768 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3639 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 65535 (BC) Unknown 100 96 8590131345 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 51 35 107813226283057 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 135 (C0) Power-off retract count 89 89 22492 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 840675 (C2) HDA temperature 49 65 25769803825 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 42 28 161674655 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 2 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -91010356978625 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2191896485 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2352445753 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	36.2% Below average	Read 62.6 Write 63.4 Mixed 65.3 48% 63.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 0.94 4K Mixed 0.3 69% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 36.2% Great: 58%
Hitachi HTS545050B9A300 500GB-$71 21,137 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 35GB free Firmware: PB4OC64G Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 140 140 94489280514 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 5067 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 13220 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3854 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 153 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 104919 (C2) HDA temperature 119 119 236223922222 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	39.4% Below average	Read 62.7 Write 74.4 Mixed 67.8 52% 68.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.24 4K Mixed 0.32 76% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 39.4% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
AMD R934G2401U1S 4x4GB 79 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	71.5% Very good	MC Read 26.7 MC Write 26.2 MC Mixed 21.5 71% 24.8 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 24.6 62% 21.6 GB/s	Latency 56 71% 56 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 71.5% Great: 77%

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Gaming 9%

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Desktop 73%

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Workstation 8%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97M-D3H - $126

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	192x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	156x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	91x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	98x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	68x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	47x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	39x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	28x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	20x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	44x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	30x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 58%, 8,730 samples	12x

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Total price: $589

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 $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