Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 94% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 81% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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 87.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	108% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	118% 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	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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	28.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 11 '17 at 16:21
Run Duration	222 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing as expected (49^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	87.9% Excellent	Memory 91.2 1-Core 133 2-Core 259 90% 161 Pts	4-Core 455 8-Core 724 72% 590 Pts	64-Core 717 44% 717 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6183) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 144 Reflection 154 Parallax 143 117% 147 fps	MRender 113 Gravity 135 Splatting 111 97% 120 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 465GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 16790 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 410 (B1) Unknown 98 98 28 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 60 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 37 (F1) Unknown 99 99 67268343031	104% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 414 Mixed 423 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 44.6 4K Write 88.8 4K Mixed 27.3 150% 53.6 MB/s	DQ Read 348 DQ Write 290 DQ Mixed 27.1 100% 222 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 134%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 232GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	118% Outstanding	Read 717 Write 544 Mixed 554 134% 605 MB/s	4K Read 52.7 4K Write 89.9 4K Mixed 24.7 159% 55.8 MB/s	DQ Read 53.3 DQ Write 415 DQ Mixed 24.2 81% 164 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 254%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$31 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 489GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 172 2191 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3642 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 60 60 29811 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 628 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 463 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3178 (C2) HDA temperature 112 104 31 (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 (F0) Head flying hours 61 61 29060 (F1) Unknown 200 200 4277477893 (F2) Unknown 200 200 4004529436	90% Excellent	Read 168 Write 146 Mixed 139 113% 151 MB/s	4K Read 1.27 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 0.29 132% 1.35 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 90% Great: 109%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$31 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 474GB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 147 (03) Spinup time 177 176 2116 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 59 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6468 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 59 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 29 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 29 (C2) HDA temperature 110 103 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 199 199 308 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 199 199 302 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 308 (F0) Head flying hours 93 93 5791 (F1) Unknown 200 200 2241405266 (F2) Unknown 200 200 445461558	87.9% Excellent	Read 159 Write 147 Mixed 151 115% 152 MB/s	4K Read 1.33 4K Write 2.99 4K Mixed 0.29 143% 1.54 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 109%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$31 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 325GB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 173 2200 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1558 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 58 58 31080 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 626 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 430 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1127 (C2) HDA temperature 112 105 31 (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 (F0) Head flying hours 61 61 29041 (F1) Unknown 200 200 7868842395 (F2) Unknown 200 200 8024798519	72.4% Very good	Read 124 Write 128 Mixed 104 89% 119 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 0.31 130% 1.33 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 72.4% Great: 109%
WD My Passport 1TB 12,840 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 674GB free, PID 0748 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)	20.6% Poor	Read 39.2 Write 40.8 Mixed 32.1 48% 37.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.91 4K Mixed 0.26 76% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 20.6% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1866 C9 4x8GB 350 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	51.9% Above average	MC Read 17.7 MC Write 18.4 MC Mixed 15.4 49% 17.2 GB/s	SC Read 15.7 SC Write 20.4 SC Mixed 18.1 52% 18.1 GB/s	Latency 65.4 61% 65.4 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 51.9% Great: 90%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 - $175

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	695x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	195x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	101x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	147x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	82x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	66x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	50x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	36x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $79Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	32x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	51x
HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GBKingstonBench 61%, 11,630 samples	40x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	36x

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Total price: $823

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16