Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3

Performance Results


Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 69% Battle cruiser	Workstation 9% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (82nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 18 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	4.14% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	65.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3 (all builds)
Memory	20.6 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150731
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 15 '17 at 17:05
Run Duration	190 Seconds
Run User	IRL-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4590S-$79 11,598 User benchmarks, average bench 67% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3 GHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	76.1% Very good	Memory 86.6 1-Core 93.4 2-Core 188 71% 123 Pts	4-Core 379 8-Core 383 51% 381 Pts	64-Core 383 24% 383 Pts
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 76%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GT 630 60,212 User benchmarks, average bench 4% Gainward(10B0 0F00) 1GB CLim: 810 MHz, MLim: 800 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	4.14% Terrible	Lighting 5.07 Reflection 6 Parallax 4.31 4% 5.13 fps	MRender 7.33 Gravity 5.1 Splatting 3.57 4% 5.33 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 4.14% Great: 5%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 49GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z220 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 13 100 525 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 192 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 28 (A9) Unknown 100 100 23 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 15 (AE) Unknown 100 100 60 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 100 171798691876 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1659 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1051 (F2) Unknown 253 253 909	65.1% Good	Read 481 Write 200 Mixed 279 70% 320 MB/s	4K Read 30.3 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 3.75 112% 49.8 MB/s	DQ Read 25.4 DQ Write 120 DQ Mixed 3.77 23% 49.7 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 65.1% Great: 78%
WD WD2002FYPS-01U1B0 2TB 7,087 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 1.5TB free Firmware: 04.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 241 229 9941 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2637 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11328 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1039 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 204 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 153 153 141905 (C2) HDA temperature 119 103 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	57.6% Above average	Read 107 Write 93 Mixed 90.5 73% 96.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 2.58 4K Mixed 0.3 110% 1.19 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 57.6% Great: 63%
Seagate Barracuda Green 1TB-$75 15,105 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 928GB free Firmware: CC98 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 100 19756128 (03) Spinup time 93 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 72 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 771334 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 56 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 70 (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 65 44 4883480611 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 46 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 73 (C2) HDA temperature 35 56 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 23 20 19756128 (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 73018738999348 (F1) Unknown 100 253 924085915 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1834722069	73.6% Very good	Read 123 Write 134 Mixed 128 97% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.08 4K Mixed 0.2 72% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 73.6% Great: 75%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$50 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 722GB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 176 176 4166 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 32 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 123 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 20 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 10 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 175 (C2) HDA temperature 114 106 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	68.5% Good	Read 119 Write 119 Mixed 110 87% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.45 4K Mixed 0.28 113% 1.21 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 68.5% Great: 84%
Seagate ST3500414CS 500GB 23,667 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 408GB free Firmware: SC13 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 152230943 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 37 37 65535 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 4443050763 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 18887 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 959 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 25797198803 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 106 (BE) vendor-specific 68 42 21299281002528 (C2) HDA temperature 32 58 55834574880 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 54 32 152230943 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 198 157	59.3% Above average	Read 103 Write 104 Mixed 97.7 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.71 4K Mixed 0.41 104% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 59.3% Great: 61%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378B5173QH0-CK0 Hynix HMT451U6AFR8C-PB 24GB 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 8192, 4096, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	58.8% Above average	MC Read 21.2 MC Write 22.7 MC Mixed 18.1 59% 20.7 GB/s	SC Read 14.7 SC Write 17.8 SC Mixed 18.2 48% 16.9 GB/s	Latency 70.8 56% 70.8 ns

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3 - $102

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	619x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	473x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	422x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	293x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	205x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	158x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	77x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	70x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	63x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	81x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	78x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	38x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $750

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	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 $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