Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 82% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	90.6% 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	93.1% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	29.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1842 x 1048 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 20 '18 at 00:45
Run Duration	113 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	87.2% Excellent	Memory 95.9 1-Core 117 2-Core 229 84% 147 Pts	4-Core 454 8-Core 452 61% 453 Pts	64-Core 455 28% 455 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 87.2% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.6% Outstanding	Lighting 115 Reflection 119 Parallax 112 94% 115 fps	MRender 98.8 Gravity 104 Splatting 104 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 151GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7160 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1100 (B1) Unknown 98 98 21 (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 61 39 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 319 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12389781958	93.1% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 353 Mixed 356 90% 406 MB/s	4K Read 42.5 4K Write 75 4K Mixed 21.7 132% 46.4 MB/s	DQ Read 330 DQ Write 244 DQ Mixed 73.3 113% 216 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 93.1% Great: 118%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$50 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 343GB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 177 5891 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1952 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4572 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1495 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 60 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1902 (C2) HDA temperature 119 99 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 5 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	55.9% Above average	Read 107 Write 87.3 Mixed 84.3 70% 93 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.94 4K Mixed 0.21 86% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 55.9% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 2133 C11 4x8GB 659 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	80.3% Excellent	MC Read 29.9 MC Write 31.1 MC Mixed 24.1 81% 28.4 GB/s	SC Read 20.4 SC Write 21.5 SC Mixed 26.5 65% 22.8 GB/s	Latency 54.2 74% 54.2 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 81%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 - $135

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	358x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	199x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	71x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	121x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	73x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	64x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	59x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	37x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	20x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	49x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	25x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 49%, 28,220 samples	23x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $783

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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