Gigabyte GA-H97-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 57% Gunboat	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 47% Yacht


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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	65% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H97-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	5 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	20140430
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Apr 26 '18 at 21:46
Run Duration	145 Seconds
Run User	SVN-User
Background CPU	8%

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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 i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.85 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	83.4% Excellent	Memory 94.8 1-Core 117 2-Core 224 84% 145 Pts	4-Core 389 8-Core 595 61% 492 Pts	64-Core 570 35% 570 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 83.4% Great: 80%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85AC) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2052 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	65% Good	Lighting 83.1 Reflection 81.7 Parallax 70.1 68% 78.3 fps	MRender 72.9 Gravity 73.8 Splatting 72.5 60% 73.1 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 65% Great: 60%
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%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 61GB free Firmware: 527ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 3571905 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 -26431228712872 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 519 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 52 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 25 52 1009320722457 (C2) HDA temperature 25 52 1009320722457 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3571905 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3571905 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3571905 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 34757 (EA) Unknown 0 0 27068 (F1) Unknown 0 0 27068 (F2) Unknown 0 0 22859	48% Average	Read 446 Write 117 Mixed 192 55% 252 MB/s	4K Read 18.6 4K Write 28.4 4K Mixed 12.8 60% 19.9 MB/s	DQ Read 108 DQ Write 127 DQ Mixed 33.4 48% 89.3 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 48% Great: 73%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$40 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2TB free (System drive) Firmware: MX4OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 69 (03) Spinup time 129 129 25789399327 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 4226 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 26779 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 516 (C0) Power-off retract count 70 70 36653 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 70 70 36653 (C2) HDA temperature 240 240 206159347737 (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 200 200 0	88.9% Excellent	Read 147 Write 164 Mixed 172 122% 161 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.31 4K Mixed 0.2 67% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 88.9% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 44,086 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	60.4% Good	MC Read 21.6 MC Write 21.1 MC Mixed 18.5 58% 20.4 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 21.5 SC Mixed 19.9 55% 19.3 GB/s	Latency 57.7 69% 57.7 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 60.4% Great: 64%

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Gaming 39%

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Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97-Gaming 3 - $132

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	220x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	122x
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	95x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	101x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	66x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	49x

SSD
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	49x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	34x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	12x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	43x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	39x
KHX1866C10D3/8G 9905403-400.A00LF 9905403-400.A00LF 16GBKingstonBench 51%, 42 samples	24x

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Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $505

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16