Gigabyte GA-H97-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 44% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (85th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 15 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 81.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	65.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	91% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (37%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H97-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	28.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150803
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 12 '18 at 19:40
Run Duration	116 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	37%

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PC Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4590-$188 151,366 User benchmarks, average bench 63% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	81.4% Excellent	Memory 92.7 1-Core 104 2-Core 206 78% 134 Pts	4-Core 405 8-Core 411 54% 408 Pts	64-Core 408 25% 408 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 81.4% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Gigabyte(1458 3739) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 24.21.13.9731 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	65.3% Good	Lighting 82.4 Reflection 81.4 Parallax 70.9 67% 78.2 fps	MRender 73.2 Gravity 75.2 Splatting 76.6 62% 75 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 65.3% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk X300 128GB-$170 2,748 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 19GB free (System drive) Firmware: X354 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 4666 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1625 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1284423748628 (A6) Unknown 100 100 5 (A7) Unknown 100 100 48 (A8) Unknown 100 100 64 (A9) Unknown 100 100 168 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 36 (AE) Unknown 100 100 88 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 69 44 188979544095 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 5562067453199 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 4955 (EA) Unknown 100 100 8057 (F1) Unknown 253 253 6662 (F2) Unknown 253 253 9589 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	91% Outstanding	Read 429 Write 324 Mixed 279 76% 344 MB/s	4K Read 35.9 4K Write 122 4K Mixed 29.5 157% 62.4 MB/s	DQ Read 329 DQ Write 17.8 DQ Mixed 23.1 55% 123 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 92%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 826GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 99 9398704 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 533 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 24067209 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1039 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 208 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 60 555679777 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6091 (C2) HDA temperature 33 40 85899345953 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 10488310137486 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3052163500 (F2) Unknown 100 253 40460377653	90.5% Outstanding	Read 177 Write 139 Mixed 145 115% 154 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.37 4K Mixed 0.23 71% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 90.5% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C9D3/8GX KHX1600C10D3/8G KHX1600C10D3/8G KHX1600C10D3/8G 32GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	62.2% Good	MC Read 22.6 MC Write 23 MC Mixed 19.2 62% 21.6 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 18.3 SC Mixed 20.3 53% 18.4 GB/s	Latency 62.8 64% 62.8 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 62.2% Great: 62%

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Desktop 77%

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Workstation 33%

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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 $274	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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