Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 25% Surfboard	Desktop 80% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 20% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 71%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	27.9% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	94.3% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	10.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 04 '18 at 22:13
Run Duration	196 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	16%

PC Performing as expected (58^th 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 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	71% Very good	Memory 83 1-Core 104 2-Core 206 75% 131 Pts	4-Core 348 8-Core 313 45% 331 Pts	64-Core 385 24% 385 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 7870-$203 42,130 User benchmarks, average bench 26% XFX(1682 3250) 2GB CLim: 1000 MHz, MLim: 1200 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 18.3.4 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	27.9% Poor	Lighting 35.3 Reflection 31.9 Parallax 43.1 29% 36.8 fps	MRender 28 Gravity 29.7 Splatting 36.4 26% 31.4 fps
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 27.9% Great: 28%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Black NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB (2017)-$154 14,088 User benchmarks, average bench 131% 443GB free Firmware: B35500WD Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	93.8% Outstanding	Read 679 Write 470 Mixed 486 121% 545 MB/s	4K Read 33.4 4K Write 42.1 4K Mixed 18.5 96% 31.3 MB/s	DQ Read 310 DQ Write 120 DQ Mixed 49.8 80% 160 MB/s
Poor: 84% ↑ This bench: 93.8% Great: 155%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 252GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4545 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1208 (B1) Unknown 99 99 18 (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 58 45 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 183 (F1) Unknown 99 99 14728354580	94.3% Outstanding	Read 500 Write 401 Mixed 411 97% 437 MB/s	4K Read 36.8 4K Write 52.8 4K Mixed 37.6 132% 42.4 MB/s	DQ Read 275 DQ Write 129 DQ Mixed 77.3 90% 160 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 94.3% Great: 134%
Crucial M4 256GB-$218 17,938 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 1GB free Firmware: 070H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 424 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 28672 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5471 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1981 (AA) Unknown 100 100 7 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 21 (AE) Unknown 100 100 361 (B5) Unknown 100 100 2482503614851 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 1005 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 100 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 102212 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 7 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	62.5% Good	Read 490 Write 256 Mixed 339 80% 362 MB/s	4K Read 20.3 4K Write 62.8 4K Mixed 5.8 71% 29.6 MB/s	DQ Read 171 DQ Write 161 DQ Mixed 5.94 48% 113 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 62.5% Great: 74%
Seagate ST3400620NS 400GB-$179 751 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 372GB free Firmware: 3.CNK Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 92 164475555 (03) Spinup time 93 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2220 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 77 (07) Seek error rate 90 60 966667387 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 16975 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 965 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 162 (BD) vendor-specific 80 80 20 (BE) vendor-specific 58 34 707199018 (C2) HDA temperature 42 66 55834574890 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 63 55 159770952 (C5) Current pending sector count 1 1 4294967295 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 1 1 4294967295 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	43.6% Average	Read 74.8 Write 77 Mixed 68.5 55% 73.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.4 94% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 43.6% Great: 42%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$24 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 172GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 2 (03) Spinup time 144 142 3783 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3441 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11482 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2279 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 795 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2646 (C2) HDA temperature 107 86 36 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 10 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 9 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 7 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 11	61.2% Good	Read 108 Write 105 Mixed 106 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.36 93% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 61.2% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Sniper DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 2,113 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	57.5% Above average	MC Read 20.7 MC Write 23 MC Mixed 17.5 58% 20.4 GB/s	SC Read 12.1 SC Write 18.4 SC Mixed 16.8 45% 15.8 GB/s	Latency 75.2 53% 75.2 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 57.5% Great: 64%

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

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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	1,217x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	633x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	396x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	479x
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 $109Bench 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 $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $35	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