Gigabyte GA-H97-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 14% Tree trunk


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 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 82.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	13.9% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	78.6% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H97-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	9.5 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150803
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 22 '18 at 21:02
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

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 i5-4690-$52 73,695 User benchmarks, average bench 67% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	82.7% Excellent	Memory 90.1 1-Core 114 2-Core 223 81% 142 Pts	4-Core 436 8-Core 432 58% 434 Pts	64-Core 416 26% 416 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R7 250X 12,863 User benchmarks, average bench 12% Gigabyte(1458 2282) 2GB CLim: 1020 MHz, MLim: 1125 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 17.12.1 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	13.9% Very poor	Lighting 17.5 Reflection 16.3 Parallax 21.8 14% 18.6 fps	MRender 13.9 Gravity 15.8 Splatting 18.2 13% 16 fps
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 13.9% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
G.skill FM-25S3-240GPF 240GB 294 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 58GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM01.3 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 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4746 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1068 (11) Unknown 100 100 68 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 656 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2359393 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 106 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850919454 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (E9) Unknown 100 100 6973 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3537	78.6% Very good	Read 512 Write 466 Mixed 366 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 26.1 4K Write 60.5 4K Mixed 11.2 86% 32.6 MB/s	DQ Read 173 DQ Write 56.5 DQ Mixed 17.9 39% 82.6 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 78.6% Great: 109%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$64 143,477 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 289GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 140 138 3958 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5225 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 12656 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3649 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 342 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 141 141 178429 (C2) HDA temperature 114 97 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	41.6% Average	Read 74.3 Write 70.8 Mixed 53.2 49% 66.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 0.55 4K Mixed 0.22 56% 0.43 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 41.6% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown EEB4GB681CAE-16IC 1311 M2F8G64CB8HB5N-DI 12GB 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	56.1% Above average	MC Read 20.5 MC Write 20.8 MC Mixed 17.7 56% 19.7 GB/s	SC Read 13.4 SC Write 16.8 SC Mixed 15.8 44% 15.3 GB/s	Latency 67 60% 67 ns

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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 $279	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 $182	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