Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 20% Surfboard	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 17% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	17.4% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	69.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 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-Z97X-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	26.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140530
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 16 '16 at 17:51
Run Duration	305 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4590-$188 151,366 User benchmarks, average bench 63% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	76.5% Very good	Memory 94.9 1-Core 93.8 2-Core 202 76% 130 Pts	4-Core 332 8-Core 366 46% 349 Pts	64-Core 405 25% 405 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 76.5% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 750-Ti-$92 309,423 User benchmarks, average bench 17% EVGA(3842 3751) CLim: 1293 MHz, MLim: 1350 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 376.19 Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	17.4% Very poor	Lighting 21.5 Reflection 16.7 Parallax 19 18% 19.1 fps	MRender 24.5 Gravity 23.1 Splatting 16.7 17% 21.4 fps
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 17.4% Great: 19%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HyperX Fury 240GB-$193 27,826 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 24GB free (System drive) Firmware: 608A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 10441663 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 -69415261433848 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 236 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 80 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 27 43 90197131291 (C2) HDA temperature 27 43 90197131291 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 10441663 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 10441663 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 10441663 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 55834574849 (E9) Unknown 0 0 7626 (EA) Unknown 0 0 5364 (F1) Unknown 0 0 5364 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4864 (F4) Unknown 100 100 3080218	69.8% Good	Read 485 Write 138 Mixed 252 64% 292 MB/s	4K Read 14.8 4K Write 121 4K Mixed 17.5 109% 51.2 MB/s	DQ Read 203 DQ Write 252 DQ Mixed 38.6 82% 165 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 69.8% Great: 84%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$90 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 338GB free Firmware: 82.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 184 181 5766 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4982 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6262 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 323 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 70 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 14144 (C2) HDA temperature 122 104 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	73% Very good	Read 127 Write 127 Mixed 120 94% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.89 4K Write 2.49 4K Mixed 0.28 115% 1.22 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 73% Great: 88%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$90 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 158GB free Firmware: 82.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 179 5916 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1698 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4752 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 223 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 35 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5289 (C2) HDA temperature 121 107 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	58.9% Above average	Read 100 Write 105 Mixed 100 77% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.59 4K Mixed 0.28 112% 1.22 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 58.9% Great: 88%
Sony Storage Media 128GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 76GB free, PID 03cf Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	70% Very good	Read 39.8 Write 41.3 Mixed 41.1 53% 40.8 MB/s	4K Read 10 4K Write 17.2 4K Mixed 7.68 884% 11.6 MB/s	DQ Read 11.9 DQ Write 17.3 DQ Mixed 7.69 894% 12.3 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 86%
Sony SBAC-US20 32GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 13% 3GB free, PID 0827 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	18.6% Very poor	Read 95.8 Write 9.02 Mixed 18.4 36% 41.1 MB/s	4K Read 11.4 4K Write 0.01 4K Mixed 0.008 43% 3.81 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 18.6% Great: 19%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GB 12,722 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	71.5% Very good	MC Read 26.1 MC Write 26.7 MC Mixed 22.8 72% 25.2 GB/s	SC Read 18.1 SC Write 19.8 SC Mixed 21.9 57% 19.9 GB/s	Latency 57.4 70% 57.4 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 71.5% Great: 80%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 - $162

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	852x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	349x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	158x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	319x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	113x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	110x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	97x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	61x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	41x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	100x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	66x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	64x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $160	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $29

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16