Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 31% Sail boat	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 25% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 77.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	34.9% 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	45.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	21.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140530
Uptime	7.2 Days
Run Date	Jan 14 '17 at 01:41
Run Duration	220 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	24%

PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)	77.1% Very good	Memory 93 1-Core 122 2-Core 211 83% 142 Pts	4-Core 339 8-Core 442 50% 390 Pts	64-Core 426 26% 426 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% Gigabyte(1458 3690) 2GB CLim: 1430 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	34.9% Below average	Lighting 45.4 Reflection 43.2 Parallax 38.9 37% 42.5 fps	MRender 38.7 Gravity 39.4 Splatting 35.4 31% 37.8 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 34.9% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk X300 256GB-$99 2,341 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 187GB free Firmware: X3540000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 1791 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 43 (A5) Unknown 100 100 17188257879 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 37 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2 (A9) Unknown 100 100 336 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 34 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 75 27 115965100057 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 60130459662 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 406 (EA) Unknown 100 100 445 (F1) Unknown 253 253 224 (F2) Unknown 253 253 59 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0
Poor: 56% Great: 97%
SanDisk X300 256GB-$99 2,341 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 187GB free Firmware: X3540000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 1790 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 43 (A5) Unknown 100 100 17188388951 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 27 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3 (A9) Unknown 100 100 281 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 33 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 28 120260067355 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 60130459662 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 406 (EA) Unknown 100 100 448 (F1) Unknown 253 253 227 (F2) Unknown 253 253 61 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0
Poor: 56% Great: 97%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 70GB free (System drive) Firmware: 541ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 100551726 (05) Reallocated sector count 84 84 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 -88991722355713 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 561 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 312 (B1) Unknown 0 0 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 24 37 51542032408 (C2) HDA temperature 24 37 51542032408 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 100551726 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 100551726 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 100551726 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 124554051584 (E9) Unknown 0 0 12389 (EA) Unknown 0 0 12077 (F1) Unknown 0 0 12077 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5450	45.8% Average	Read 166 Write 155 Mixed 128 33% 150 MB/s	4K Read 15.3 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 9.47 91% 43.4 MB/s	DQ Read 17.5 DQ Write 154 DQ Mixed 7.33 29% 59.6 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 45.8% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$32 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 819GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 79 211296515 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 84 84 17119 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 38863486702 (09) Power-on hours count 52 52 42881 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 611 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 13210 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065668 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 74 49 505020442 (C2) HDA temperature 26 51 64424509466 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 32 18 211296515 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 24 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 24 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 123042223123880 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1824649600 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2897222075	65.5% Good	Read 118 Write 110 Mixed 111 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.35 4K Mixed 0.6 121% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 65.5% Great: 68%
WDC WD10 JPVT-22A1YT0 1TB 18 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 106GB free, PID 0c31 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	18.3% Very poor	Read 33.5 Write 34.2 Mixed 31 42% 32.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.33 4K Write 1.93 4K Mixed 0.17 73% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 18.3% Great: 18%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 4x8GB 6,467 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	59.3% Above average	MC Read 21.8 MC Write 21.6 MC Mixed 17.8 58% 20.4 GB/s	SC Read 12.7 SC Write 20.3 SC Mixed 20.5 51% 17.8 GB/s	Latency 62.2 64% 62.2 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 59.3% Great: 65%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

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

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	853x
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 $94Bench 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	67x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	64x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $810

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $500	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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