Gigabyte GA-H97-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 49% Yacht	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 42% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 75.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	62.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	47.4% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H97-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	20 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140628
Uptime	5.1 Days
Run Date	May 01 '18 at 19:02
Run Duration	179 Seconds
Run User	VNM-User
Background CPU	12%

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PC Performing as expected (57^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 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	75.9% Very good	Memory 84.8 1-Core 102 2-Core 204 75% 130 Pts	4-Core 361 8-Core 598 58% 480 Pts	64-Core 572 35% 572 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 75.9% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Gigabyte(1458 3775) ≥ 4GB; aorus geforce gtx 1060 oc 6gb CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	62.3% Good	Lighting 78.7 Reflection 74.8 Parallax 74.7 64% 76.1 fps	MRender 69.5 Gravity 72 Splatting 73.3 59% 71.6 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 62.3% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HyperX Savage 240GB-$120 39,518 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 177GB free Firmware: SAFM00.U Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3086 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 581 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 817 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3276926 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 70 (C2) HDA temperature 66 55 193275297826 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (E9) Unknown 100 100 11007 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 6470 (F2) Unknown 100 100 10448 (F4) Unknown 100 100 50 (F5) Unknown 100 100 126 (F6) Unknown 100 100 3471936	76.6% Very good	Read 505 Write 480 Mixed 497 110% 494 MB/s	4K Read 17.9 4K Write 66.6 4K Mixed 10.1 75% 31.5 MB/s	DQ Read 181 DQ Write 69.4 DQ Mixed 10.6 38% 86.9 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 111%
Corsair Force GS 128GB-$150 5,048 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 56GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.20 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 35828168 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 139955804312832 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1358 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 334 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 35 50 94492557347 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 35828168 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 35828168 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 35828168 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 7831 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7767 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7767 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7418	47.4% Average	Read 459 Write 158 Mixed 203 60% 273 MB/s	4K Read 20.5 4K Write 13.1 4K Mixed 11.9 53% 15.2 MB/s	DQ Read 112 DQ Write 44.2 DQ Mixed 28.8 34% 61.5 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 47.4% Great: 86%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 582GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 172 2283 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4241 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5246 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1139 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 128 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4124 (C2) HDA temperature 109 91 34 (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 200 165 361 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	87% Excellent	Read 154 Write 150 Mixed 132 109% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 2.21 4K Mixed 0.29 104% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 109%
Seagate ST3808110AS 80GB-$33 4,823 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 35GB free Firmware: 3.AAE Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 85 7851719 (03) Spinup time 100 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9509 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 523207183 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 17638 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 99 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5722 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 48 656605221 (C2) HDA temperature 37 52 103079215141 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 50 45 208552277 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 199 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	36.5% Below average	Read 62.8 Write 64.1 Mixed 62.2 48% 63 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.48 4K Mixed 0.44 104% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 36.5% Great: 41%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F3-12800CL10-8GBXL Kingston 9905403-439.A00LF 0420 F3-12800CL10-8GBXL Kingston KHX1600C9D3/4GX 24GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 8192, 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	47.5% Average	MC Read 17 MC Write 17.1 MC Mixed 14.7 46% 16.3 GB/s	SC Read 11.1 SC Write 16.8 SC Mixed 13.9 40% 13.9 GB/s	Latency 72.1 56% 72.1 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 47.5% Great: 49%

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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	219x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	121x
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 $37Bench 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	38x
KHX1866C10D3/8G 9905403-400.A00LF 9905403-400.A00LF 16GBKingstonBench 51%, 42 samples	24x

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Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $504

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