Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: 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 86.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	89.6% 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	84.1% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	4.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	6.8 Days
Run Date	Mar 11 '17 at 06:21
Run Duration	175 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	8%

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PC Performing above expectations (60^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	86.5% Excellent	Memory 93.3 1-Core 126 2-Core 241 87% 153 Pts	4-Core 430 8-Core 639 67% 535 Pts	64-Core 648 40% 648 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6276) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.49 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.6% Excellent	Lighting 115 Reflection 114 Parallax 97.8 94% 109 fps	MRender 97.9 Gravity 102 Splatting 100 82% 99.9 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$119 20,782 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 400GB free Firmware: PSF109C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	89.3% Excellent	Read 163 Write 174 Mixed 263 45% 200 MB/s	4K Read 32.3 4K Write 121 4K Mixed 42.9 168% 65.3 MB/s	DQ Read 479 DQ Write 464 DQ Mixed 171 211% 371 MB/s
Poor: 95% ↑ This bench: 89.3% Great: 144%
Transcend SSD340 128GB-$88 2,082 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 35GB free Firmware: SVN423c Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2630 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 390 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 2555904 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 198 198 64426868740 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 20 (C2) HDA temperature 66 66 146030395426 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2777773056 (EA) Unknown 100 100 17338309824 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1577115859 (F2) Unknown 100 100 9222269713	69.4% Good	Read 497 Write 151 Mixed 233 64% 294 MB/s	4K Read 30.4 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 20.9 127% 51.4 MB/s	DQ Read 31.4 DQ Write 110 DQ Mixed 20.2 30% 53.8 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 69.4% Great: 84%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 13GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4725 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 853 (B1) Unknown 97 97 34 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 62 43 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 181 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8922400690	84.1% Excellent	Read 488 Write 339 Mixed 333 86% 387 MB/s	4K Read 43.1 4K Write 74.1 4K Mixed 20.5 131% 45.9 MB/s	DQ Read 45.2 DQ Write 225 DQ Mixed 47.4 62% 106 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 84.1% Great: 108%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 279GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 187 170 1608 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1198 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4737 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 797 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 121 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1080 (C2) HDA temperature 108 89 35 (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	84.9% Excellent	Read 149 Write 147 Mixed 105 100% 134 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 2.21 4K Mixed 0.21 92% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x4GB 27,462 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	57.5% Above average	MC Read 20.9 MC Write 20.7 MC Mixed 17 56% 19.5 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 21.2 SC Mixed 17.9 52% 18.2 GB/s	Latency 61.5 65% 61.5 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 57.5% Great: 60%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 - $135

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	358x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	199x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	71x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	121x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	73x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	64x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	59x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	37x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	20x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	49x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	25x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 49%, 28,220 samples	23x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $783

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	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