Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming GT

Performance Results


Gaming 50% Yacht	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 40% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 86.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	54.3% 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	67.4% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming GT (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140425
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 22 '16 at 21:13
Run Duration	390 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing as expected (58^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 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	86.5% Excellent	Memory 92.9 1-Core 117 2-Core 233 84% 148 Pts	4-Core 463 8-Core 464 62% 464 Pts	64-Core 463 29% 463 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% EVGA(3842 2974) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.5354 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	54.3% Above average	Lighting 68.1 Reflection 71.5 Parallax 62.2 56% 67.3 fps	MRender 73.7 Gravity 63.2 Splatting 57.3 52% 64.8 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 54.3% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 379GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 904 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 17 (A5) Unknown 100 100 6291512 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 24 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 385 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 9 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 64 274879479844 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 68719476752 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 110 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1163 (F1) Unknown 253 253 982 (F2) Unknown 253 253 389 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	67.4% Good	Read 486 Write 232 Mixed 279 73% 332 MB/s	4K Read 37.3 4K Write 72.6 4K Mixed 12.2 110% 40.7 MB/s	DQ Read 33.7 DQ Write 81.7 DQ Mixed 12.7 23% 42.7 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 67.4% Great: 108%
OCZ AGILITY3 128GB 513 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 38GB free Firmware: 2.22 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3996787 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 16320875755607 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 183 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 111 (B1) Unknown 0 0 10 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3996787 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3996787 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3996787 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 31534 (EA) Unknown 0 0 34848 (F1) Unknown 0 0 34848 (F2) Unknown 0 0 47043	50.4% Above average	Read 208 Write 114 Mixed 112 32% 144 MB/s	4K Read 21.4 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 13.9 106% 46.6 MB/s	DQ Read 107 DQ Write 111 DQ Mixed 10.3 35% 76.1 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 50.4% Great: 62%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 349GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 69833344 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11608 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 69326540 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 13062 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 54 (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 63 56 623116325 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 75 75 51158 (C2) HDA temperature 37 44 64424509477 (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 -18421114730610 (F1) Unknown 100 253 13249733601 (F2) Unknown 100 253 782412130848	76.1% Very good	Read 132 Write 133 Mixed 120 96% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.21 70% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 220GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 222160680 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3549 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 10271161 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 13073 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 55 (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 63 53 623181861 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 16 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 9431 (C2) HDA temperature 37 47 51539607589 (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 -51372103826915 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6619272617 (F2) Unknown 100 253 623776402747	70.8% Very good	Read 128 Write 119 Mixed 123 93% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.17 73% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 114%
Seagate ST31500541AS 1.5TB 9,968 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 86GB free Firmware: CC35 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 143504131 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 85 85 16162 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 45 39 18979586120232 (09) Power-on hours count 45 45 48742 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 851 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 524307 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 44 26342391842 (C2) HDA temperature 34 56 64424509474 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 59 30 143504131 (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 -25769803741246 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1965765402 (F2) Unknown 100 253 549327354	37.5% Below average	Read 60.8 Write 69.9 Mixed 54.1 46% 61.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.21 65% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 37.5% Great: 56%
Lexar JumpDrive 8GB 158 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 0GB free, PID a201 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	6.09% Terrible	Read 22.4 Write 5.38 Mixed 6.06 11% 11.3 MB/s	4K Read 6.96 4K Write 0.009 4K Mixed 0.007 26% 2.33 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 6.09% Great: 6%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMZ8GX3M1A1600C9 0215 CMZ8GX3M1A1600C10 16GB 170 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	62.7% Good	MC Read 22.2 MC Write 22.8 MC Mixed 19.5 61% 21.5 GB/s	SC Read 17 SC Write 21.4 SC Mixed 20.8 56% 19.7 GB/s	Latency 62.3 64% 62.3 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 62.7% Great: 64%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 54%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming GT - $300

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	90x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	31x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	23x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	18x
GTX 980-TiNvidia $560Bench 79%, 214,030 samples	17x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	14x

SSD
EX900 NVMe PCIe M.2 120GBHP $33Bench 139%, 2,425 samples	11x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	9x
S650 240GBHPBench 75%, 488 samples	6x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 2133 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 55%, 993 samples	8x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x8GBKingstonBench 57%, 3,744 samples	7x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	6x

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Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $813

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $179	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