Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 63% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (35th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 65 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 79.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	84.2% 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	77.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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

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

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140319
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 12 '17 at 22:23
Run Duration	251 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4930K-$90 22,204 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 3.75 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	79.5% Very good	Memory 86.7 1-Core 94.4 2-Core 188 72% 123 Pts	4-Core 390 8-Core 609 62% 500 Pts	64-Core 750 46% 750 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 79.5% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 5173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	84.2% Excellent	Lighting 105 Reflection 117 Parallax 96.8 85% 106 fps	MRender 99.3 Gravity 99.8 Splatting 101 82% 99.9 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 84.2% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 1TB-$199 23,857 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 740GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0CB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 5044 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 955 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (B3) Unknown 100 100 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 69 55 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 30 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15439290850	77.8% Very good	Read 492 Write 343 Mixed 353 88% 396 MB/s	4K Read 30.5 4K Write 37.2 4K Mixed 22.5 95% 30.1 MB/s	DQ Read 257 DQ Write 127 DQ Mixed 74.6 87% 153 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 126%
Crucial BX100 500GB-$49 13,478 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 184GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 117 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 540 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 65 (A3) Unknown 100 100 26 (A4) Unknown 100 100 3409 (A5) Unknown 100 100 7 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 1 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 13 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 26255 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 36287 (F2) Unknown 100 100 54862 (F5) Unknown 100 100 54544	87.6% Excellent	Read 508 Write 423 Mixed 466 104% 466 MB/s	4K Read 21 4K Write 52.5 4K Mixed 32.2 101% 35.3 MB/s	DQ Read 232 DQ Write 201 DQ Mixed 73.7 94% 169 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 87.6% Great: 108%
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 40GB free Firmware: EXT0CB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5682 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1116 (B1) Unknown 98 98 19 (B3) Unknown 100 100 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 73 59 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 40 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10314717331	74.7% Very good	Read 369 Write 275 Mixed 273 68% 306 MB/s	4K Read 39.2 4K Write 51.3 4K Mixed 23.9 117% 38.1 MB/s	DQ Read 259 DQ Write 118 DQ Mixed 82.8 90% 153 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 74.7% Great: 126%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 896GB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 170 4350 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 868 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5334 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 866 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 865 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 194 194 19810 (C2) HDA temperature 117 110 30 (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	52.9% Above average	Read 81.8 Write 103 Mixed 95.2 70% 93.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.91 4K Write 1.07 4K Mixed 0.34 96% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 52.9% Great: 84%
WD WD15EZRX-00DC0B0 1.5TB 1,212 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 413GB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 170 4400 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1793 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7581 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1619 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 906 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 186 186 43531 (C2) HDA temperature 115 110 32 (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	46.1% Average	Read 72.2 Write 88 Mixed 84.3 62% 81.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 2.03 4K Mixed 0.22 82% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 46.1% Great: 83%
WD Blue 750GB (2008)-$72 4,659 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 412GB free Firmware: 30.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 196 172 7200 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12615 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 63 63 27175 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1850 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 51 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 12617 (C2) HDA temperature 101 83 51 (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	31.2% Below average	Read 39.4 Write 68.8 Mixed 56.4 42% 54.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.96 4K Mixed 0.37 98% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 31.2% Great: 52%
Hitachi Deskstar P7K500 500GB-$159 43,620 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 107GB free Firmware: GM4O Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 133 133 139 (03) Spinup time 115 115 25791562060 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 5166 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 131 131 29 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 15261 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3253 (C0) Power-off retract count 96 96 5398 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 5398 (C2) HDA temperature 176 176 163209674786 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	36.6% Below average	Read 58.9 Write 68.2 Mixed 62.3 48% 63.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.33 94% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 36.6% Great: 51%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 1,867 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	87.5% Excellent	MC Read 36 MC Write 33.2 MC Mixed 32.4 97% 33.9 GB/s	SC Read 16.3 SC Write 14.1 SC Mixed 13.4 42% 14.6 GB/s	Latency 70.7 57% 70.7 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 100%

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

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Workstation 50%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 - $480

CPU
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	281x
Core i7-4930KIntel $90Bench 77%, 22,204 samples	195x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	187x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	58x
GTX 1080Nvidia $265Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	55x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	47x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	45x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	26x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	21x

RAM
DDR3 1866 4x4GBAdataBench 68%, 420 samples	23x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 60%, 738 samples	16x
F3 DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 57%, 2,734 samples	16x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $802

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $40	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