Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 62% Destroyer	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 49% Yacht


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 an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: 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 91.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	63% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	89.9% 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	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	5.4 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kolorów
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 17 '18 at 15:33
Run Duration	169 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.3% Outstanding	Memory 96.6 1-Core 124 2-Core 255 89% 159 Pts	4-Core 498 8-Core 493 66% 496 Pts	64-Core 489 30% 489 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 91.3% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% MSI(1462 3281) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2027 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63% Good	Lighting 80.7 Reflection 78.1 Parallax 75.1 66% 78 fps	MRender 69.8 Gravity 70.2 Splatting 71.2 58% 70.4 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Transcend SSD370S 256GB-$115 11,742 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 188GB free Firmware: O1225G Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 525 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1267 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 133 (A3) Unknown 100 100 32 (A4) Unknown 100 100 50116 (A5) Unknown 100 100 95 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 24 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 30 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 15976 (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 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 76282 (F2) Unknown 100 100 139721 (F5) Unknown 100 100 200464	101% Outstanding	Read 525 Write 379 Mixed 431 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 34.3 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 41.5 160% 60 MB/s	DQ Read 34.2 DQ Write 305 DQ Mixed 61 79% 133 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 114%
Plextor M5 Pro 128GB-$130 4,476 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 81GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.08 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1709 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4246 (B1) Unknown 100 100 358806 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1948 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 60 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 491031 (F2) Unknown 100 100 818751	89.9% Excellent	Read 492 Write 309 Mixed 381 87% 394 MB/s	4K Read 23.4 4K Write 81.1 4K Mixed 33 121% 45.8 MB/s	DQ Read 344 DQ Write 296 DQ Mixed 70.6 121% 237 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 98%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 204GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 168 4391 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7348 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 19905 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 7009 (C0) Power-off retract count 197 197 2253 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5094 (C2) HDA temperature 118 90 29 (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	60.5% Good	Read 115 Write 95.5 Mixed 96 77% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 0.5 129% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 60.5% Great: 76%
WD Blue 320GB (2008)-$39 64,707 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 62GB free Firmware: 01.03A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 158 155 3091 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10414 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 62 62 27892 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 91 91 9730 (C0) Power-off retract count 196 196 3125 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 10414 (C2) HDA temperature 113 91 30 (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 18 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	43% Average	Read 83.2 Write 66.3 Mixed 77 57% 75.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.96 4K Mixed 0.38 99% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 43% Great: 60%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 2400 C11 2x4GB 9,036 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	76.7% Very good	MC Read 28.2 MC Write 28.7 MC Mixed 23.7 77% 26.9 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 23.7 SC Mixed 23.5 62% 21.8 GB/s	Latency 51.8 77% 51.8 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 76.7% Great: 84%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

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Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 - $135

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	358x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	199x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	71x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	121x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	73x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	64x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	59x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	37x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	20x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	49x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	25x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 49%, 28,220 samples	23x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $783

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) $30	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