Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 65% Battle cruiser	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 44% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 79.1%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	67.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	102% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Run History

5 months ago, 5 months ago.

System	Gigabyte Z97X-SLI
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI-CF (all builds)
Memory	5.9 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141017
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Apr 17 '18 at 03:17
Run Duration	112 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Single core	Quad core	Multi core
Intel Core i5-4590-$288 34,081 User benchmarks, average bench 72% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	79.1% Very good	SC Int 106 SC Float 107 SC Mixed 108 86% 107 Pts	QC Int 411 QC Float 411 QC Mixed 413 93% 411 Pts	MC Int 408 MC Float 405 MC Mixed 412 61% 408 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 79.1% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$330 325,857 User benchmarks, average bench 64% Gigabyte(1458 367B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1519 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	67.6% Good	Lighting 218 Reflection 186 Parallax 203 66% 202 fps	MRender 154 Gravity 194 Splatting 129 69% 159 fps
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 73%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 306,022 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 103GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q 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 8851 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1008 (B1) Unknown 97 97 51 (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 65 57 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 18 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23925584197	102% Outstanding	Read 495 Write 401 Mixed 418 98% 438 MB/s	4K Read 38.5 4K Write 80.7 4K Mixed 40.4 153% 53.2 MB/s	DQ Read 278 DQ Write 214 DQ Mixed 104 116% 199 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 123%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$85 93,523 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 407GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 179 177 4033 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7014 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 21411 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2901 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 71 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6942 (C2) HDA temperature 111 94 36 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	60% Good	Read 113 Write 96 Mixed 95.5 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.98 4K Mixed 0.47 120% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 60% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 31,009 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	63.4% Good	MC Read 22.5 MC Write 23.1 MC Mixed 19.8 62% 21.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.8 SC Write 19.7 SC Mixed 20.8 55% 19.1 GB/s	Latency 57.5 70% 57.5 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 63%

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

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Gaming 63%

Destroyer

Desktop 80%

Battleship

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI-CF

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $365Bench 84%, 150,805 samples	1,172x
Core i5-4690KIntel $255Bench 80%, 88,287 samples	1,164x
Core i7-4790Intel $308Bench 75%, 73,429 samples	329x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $330Bench 64%, 325,857 samples	735x
GTX 1070Nvidia $344Bench 99%, 356,308 samples	358x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 41%, 158,734 samples	264x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 105%, 306,022 samples	368x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $110Bench 112%, 222,186 samples	216x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $65Bench 53%, 124,250 samples	136x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 62%, 15,544 samples	162x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 57%, 37,287 samples	138x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 55%, 23,952 samples	107x

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Value: 76% - Very good

Total price: $795

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-8700K $370	Nvidia GTX 1070 $344	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $100
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 $150	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $230	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $110
Intel Core i7-7700K $339	AMD RX 480 $280	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $135

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $40	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $145	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $80
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $77	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $869	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $30
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $38	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $155	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $11