Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H

Performance Results


Gaming 88% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	104% 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	230% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150803
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 24 '18 at 08:10
Run Duration	132 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	12%

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PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	84.1% Excellent	Memory 89.3 1-Core 127 2-Core 241 86% 153 Pts	4-Core 424 8-Core 692 68% 558 Pts	64-Core 693 43% 693 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 84.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6183) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.24 Performing below potential (71^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 135 Reflection 149 Parallax 138 110% 140 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 130 Splatting 109 96% 118 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 175GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	230% Outstanding	Read 1,772 Write 1,284 Mixed 1,168 312% 1,408 MB/s	4K Read 55.8 4K Write 124 4K Mixed 47.6 211% 75.9 MB/s	DQ Read 474 DQ Write 302 DQ Mixed 21.8 115% 266 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 230% Great: 254%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 51GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 21858 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1127 (B1) Unknown 98 98 38 (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 71 49 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 191 (F1) Unknown 99 99 29168712935	112% Outstanding	Read 501 Write 399 Mixed 418 98% 439 MB/s	4K Read 44.1 4K Write 88 4K Mixed 47.4 174% 59.8 MB/s	DQ Read 358 DQ Write 272 DQ Mixed 114 140% 248 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 134%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 1248 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3621 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 96030780 (09) Power-on hours count 54 54 41138 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3367 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 31 (BD) vendor-specific 72 72 28 (BE) vendor-specific 70 51 538771486 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 760 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3632 (C2) HDA temperature 30 49 51539607582 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 19 3 1248 (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 74685186351338 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1906959557 (F2) Unknown 100 253 558427038	70.2% Very good	Read 120 Write 125 Mixed 106 88% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.11 4K Mixed 0.7 120% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 70.2% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1600 CL10 Series 2x8GB 4,816 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	57.3% Above average	MC Read 19.4 MC Write 20.7 MC Mixed 18.2 56% 19.4 GB/s	SC Read 15.7 SC Write 22.5 SC Mixed 19.1 55% 19.1 GB/s	Latency 68.1 59% 68.1 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 57.3% Great: 62%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 37%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD5H - $180

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	379x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	86x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	73x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	77x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	50x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	41x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	39x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	24x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	20x

RAM
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	27x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	24x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 51%, 4,160 samples	17x

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Total price: $828

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