Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 60% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	85.1% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	78.1% 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.

High background CPU (22%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kleuren, 1440 x 900 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 03 '16 at 19:11
Run Duration	176 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	22%

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PC Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	85.6% Excellent	Memory 96.5 1-Core 120 2-Core 229 85% 149 Pts	4-Core 403 8-Core 619 63% 511 Pts	64-Core 610 38% 610 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 87%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 1070-$278 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3302) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6869 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	85.1% Excellent	Lighting 109 Reflection 112 Parallax 94.7 88% 105 fps	MRender 94.6 Gravity 94.8 Splatting 97.5 78% 95.6 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 85.1% Great: 88%
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Gigabyte(1458 D000) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4444 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 3% Great: 3%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB-$130 75,831 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 49GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 685 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 199 (B1) Unknown 87 87 65 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 57 35 43 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 19 (F1) Unknown 99 99 14927895957	78.1% Very good	Read 480 Write 266 Mixed 274 75% 340 MB/s	4K Read 35.5 4K Write 64.8 4K Mixed 17.2 110% 39.2 MB/s	DQ Read 311 DQ Write 176 DQ Mixed 58.7 93% 182 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 114%
Seagate ST1000DM003-1CH162 500GB 53 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 221GB free Firmware: CR100-10 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 253 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 7744 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6318 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6805 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3253 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 97454 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 4 (BE) vendor-specific 68 54 32 (C2) HDA temperature 145 97 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 97454 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 1	39.1% Below average	Read 63.9 Write 72.2 Mixed 61.1 49% 65.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.29 81% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 39.1% Great: 71%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 196GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 33413960 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 868 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 113380478 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2970 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 857 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 57 37 75021018660907 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 32 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2039 (C2) HDA temperature 43 63 55834574891 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -106897441027150 (F1) Unknown 100 253 28043375624 (F2) Unknown 100 253 415146708896	74.5% Very good	Read 135 Write 125 Mixed 127 97% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 1.91 4K Mixed 0.25 97% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 74.5% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 40,596 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (21^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	46.4% Average	MC Read 14.7 MC Write 16.3 MC Mixed 13.1 42% 14.7 GB/s	SC Read 15.2 SC Write 16.7 SC Mixed 15.2 45% 15.7 GB/s	Latency 52.1 77% 52.1 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 46.4% Great: 85%

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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-Z97X-Gaming 3 - $169

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,234x
Core i5-4690KIntel $50Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	642x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	403x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	486x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	201x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	199x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	161x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	76x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	70x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	138x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	99x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	98x

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