Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3P

Performance Results


Gaming 55% Gunboat	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 82.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	64.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	72.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (20%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3P (all builds)
Memory	2.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140917
Uptime	5.7 Days
Run Date	Apr 17 '18 at 08:51
Run Duration	142 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	20%

PC Performing above expectations (60^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	82.6% Excellent	Memory 90.9 1-Core 85.4 2-Core 225 75% 134 Pts	4-Core 401 8-Core 637 64% 519 Pts	64-Core 649 40% 649 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 82.6% Great: 87%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Asus(1043 850A) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	64.4% Good	Lighting 82.1 Reflection 88.5 Parallax 76.8 67% 82.5 fps	MRender 79.9 Gravity 73.9 Splatting 67.3 60% 73.7 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 64.4% Great: 66%
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Gigabyte(1458 D000) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4835 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 3% Great: 3%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Mushkin Reactor 1TB-$50 9,565 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 257GB free (System drive) Firmware: N1007C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2087 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 929 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 137 (A3) Unknown 100 100 62 (A4) Unknown 100 100 132999 (A5) Unknown 100 100 126 (A6) Unknown 100 100 22 (A7) Unknown 100 100 65 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 191 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 187 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 800 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 17 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1181314 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1539938 (F5) Unknown 100 100 2127984	72.4% Very good	Read 493 Write 412 Mixed 454 101% 453 MB/s	4K Read 16.8 4K Write 82.5 4K Mixed 14.5 88% 38 MB/s	DQ Read 18.4 DQ Write 64.8 DQ Mixed 16.7 20% 33.3 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 72.4% Great: 105%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR3 1600 2x4GB 3,616 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	53.4% Above average	MC Read 20.3 MC Write 18.6 MC Mixed 16.1 52% 18.3 GB/s	SC Read 13.2 SC Write 18.2 SC Mixed 15.8 45% 15.7 GB/s	Latency 65.8 61% 65.8 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 53.4% Great: 60%

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Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3P

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	28x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	14x
Core i5-4690Intel $52Bench 67%, 73,695 samples	9x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	12x
GTX 1070-TiNvidia $299Bench 94%, 412,133 samples	10x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	7x

SSD
870 EVO 2TBSamsung $180Bench 113%, 31,076 samples	8x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	3x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	3x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	6x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GBKingstonBench 52%, 19,522 samples	4x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x8GBKingstonBench 57%, 3,744 samples	3x

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Value: 63% - Good

Total price: $728

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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