Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battle cruiser	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 61% Destroyer


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 79.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	86.5% 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	59.1% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 (all builds)
Memory	10.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140319
Uptime	2.9 Days
Run Date	Mar 27 '18 at 08:09
Run Duration	111 Seconds
Run User	DNK-User
Background CPU	11%

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 i7-4930K-$90 22,204 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	79.9% Very good	Memory 89.1 1-Core 98.7 2-Core 197 74% 128 Pts	4-Core 381 8-Core 613 61% 497 Pts	64-Core 711 44% 711 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 79.9% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 0998) CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	86.5% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 118 Parallax 116 92% 115 fps	MRender 95.1 Gravity 98.9 Splatting 89.5 77% 94.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 36GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5810 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 696 (B1) Unknown 96 96 77 (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 64 52 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 46 (F1) Unknown 99 99 33258745519	59.1% Above average	Read 320 Write 190 Mixed 214 53% 242 MB/s	4K Read 31.4 4K Write 41.4 4K Mixed 21 96% 31.3 MB/s	DQ Read 151 DQ Write 113 DQ Mixed 44.2 57% 103 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 59.1% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 65961160 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3228 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 19306127 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7617 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 842 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 73 56 454164507 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 71 71 58403 (C2) HDA temperature 27 44 47244640283 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 14 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -2997887169492 (F1) Unknown 100 253 21827825020 (F2) Unknown 100 253 46931720045	73.3% Very good	Read 112 Write 143 Mixed 144 101% 133 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.17 62% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 73.3% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D1609DS 2x8GB 2,652 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	53.8% Above average	MC Read 21.3 MC Write 18.3 MC Mixed 18.1 55% 19.2 GB/s	SC Read 14.6 SC Write 12.7 SC Mixed 11 36% 12.8 GB/s	Latency 68.3 58% 68.3 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 53.8% Great: 55%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 61%

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Desktop 79%

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Workstation 50%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 - $480

CPU
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	280x
Core i7-4930KIntel $90Bench 77%, 22,204 samples	195x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	187x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	58x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	54x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	47x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	45x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	26x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	21x

RAM
DDR3 1866 4x4GBAdataBench 68%, 420 samples	23x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 60%, 738 samples	16x
F3 DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 57%, 2,734 samples	16x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $802

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 $178	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