Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 41% Speed boat	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 34% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	53.2% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	69.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	5.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20140425
Uptime	2.6 Days
Run Date	Aug 12 '16 at 15:27
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	73% Very good	Memory 81.6 1-Core 107 2-Core 199 74% 129 Pts	4-Core 348 8-Core 514 54% 431 Pts	64-Core 518 32% 518 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 73% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 290X-$549 37,353 User benchmarks, average bench 51% Sapphire(174B E285) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 13.251.0.0 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	53.2% Above average	Lighting 64.2 Reflection 59.9 Parallax 79.9 52% 68 fps	MRender 56 Gravity 61 Splatting 78.3 55% 65.1 fps
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 53.2% Great: 55%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 156GB free (System drive) Firmware: 60AABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 19304415 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 -60129542141848 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 104 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 31 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 38 46 51542622246 (C2) HDA temperature 38 46 51542622246 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 19304415 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 19304415 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 19304415 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4294964579 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2498 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2498 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1383	69.9% Good	Read 496 Write 192 Mixed 254 69% 314 MB/s	4K Read 22.3 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 14.4 107% 46.5 MB/s	DQ Read 145 DQ Write 200 DQ Mixed 38.6 67% 128 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 85%
Hitachi Deskstar P7K500 500GB-$159 43,620 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 465GB free Firmware: GM4OA5BA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 65536 (02) Throughput performance 133 133 139 (03) Spinup time 119 119 25790972223 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1303 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 131 131 29 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 49765 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1151 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1402 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1402 (C2) HDA temperature 162 162 253403660325 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	51.1% Above average	Read 86.5 Write 91.4 Mixed 90.9 68% 89.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 0.49 119% 1 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 51.1% Great: 51%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 451GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 36544648 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 289 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 782690 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5430 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 126 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 65 56 639434787 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 50 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 11390 (C2) HDA temperature 35 44 55834574883 (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 44349832302968 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3209840971 (F2) Unknown 100 253 9247499893	57.1% Above average	Read 102 Write 96.4 Mixed 93.8 73% 97.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.23 88% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 57.1% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905403-038.A00G 99U5471-012.A00LF 9905403-038.A00G 99U5471-012.A00LF 16GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	42.5% Average	MC Read 14.2 MC Write 15.8 MC Mixed 13.6 42% 14.5 GB/s	SC Read 11.1 SC Write 13.5 SC Mixed 12.5 35% 12.4 GB/s	Latency 77.6 52% 77.6 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 42.5% Great: 62%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 - $169

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,220x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	633x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	398x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	481x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	200x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	198x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	160x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	76x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	69x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	136x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	99x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	97x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $817

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $177	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