Gigabyte GA-H97-HD3

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (90th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 10 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 85.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86.2% 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	127% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H97-HD3 (all builds)
Memory	14 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160303
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 28 '20 at 20:12
Run Duration	139 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770-$75 176,321 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.75 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	85.6% Excellent	Memory 94.1 1-Core 117 2-Core 228 84% 146 Pts	4-Core 420 8-Core 577 63% 499 Pts	64-Core 591 37% 591 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Nvidia(10DE 1151) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1592 MHz, MLim: 1802 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 442.19 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	86.2% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 117 Parallax 115 90% 114 fps	MRender 98.3 Gravity 103 Splatting 90.9 79% 97.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 412GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 242 395 476 486 483 485 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	127% Outstanding	Read 503 Write 489 Mixed 402 SusWrite 428 103% 456 MB/s	4K Read 44.1 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 63.2 207% 72.9 MB/s	DQ Read 379 DQ Write 347 DQ Mixed 360 271% 362 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 127% Great: 134%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 601GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 SusWrite @10s intervals: 96 126 125 127 125 123 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	70.9% Very good	Read 127 Write 26.4 Mixed 63.1 SusWrite 120 62% 84.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 1 197% 1.5 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 75%
WD Elements 25A1 4TB 8,402 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 1.5TB free, PID 25a1 Operating at USB 3.1 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 87 88 88 88 88 88 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	53% Above average	Read 94.3 Write 82.8 Mixed 65 SusWrite 87.9 110% 82.5 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 6.5 4K Mixed 0.8 252% 2.77 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 53% Great: 61%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-037.A00LF 2x8GB 2,364 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	62.4% Good	MC Read 22.2 MC Write 22.3 MC Mixed 19.2 61% 21.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 21.5 SC Mixed 21.3 57% 20 GB/s	Latency 59.4 67% 59.4 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 62.4% Great: 61%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 39%

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Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97-HD3

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	326x
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	290x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	159x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	166x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	147x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	85x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	57x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	49x
MX500 1TBCrucial $66Bench 106%, 202,785 samples	44x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	76x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	44x
Ballistix Sport DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCrucialBench 56%, 44,086 samples	35x

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Value: 60% - Good

Total price: $429

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