Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H-BK-CF

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 63% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 87.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	92.4% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Very high background CPU (33%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

System	Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H-BK-CF (all builds)
Memory	8.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140617
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Jul 23 '20 at 02:13
Run Duration	108 Seconds
Run User	SYC-User
Background CPU	33%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd 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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	87.6% Excellent	Memory 94.2 1-Core 131 2-Core 258 90% 161 Pts	4-Core 437 8-Core 660 68% 549 Pts	64-Core 664 41% 664 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 87.6% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX Vega-64-$400 91,676 User benchmarks, average bench 87% AMD(1002 6B76) CLim: 1630 MHz, MLim: 945 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 20.7.1 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	92.4% Outstanding	Lighting 113 Reflection 90.5 Parallax 173 92% 125 fps	MRender 88.1 Gravity 119 Splatting 126 93% 111 fps
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 92.4% Great: 94%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Black 3TB (2013)-$151 16,992 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 760GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 99 97 102 97 126 114 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	67.8% Good	Read 130 Write 109 Mixed 74.5 SusWrite 106 77% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 0.9 168% 1.23 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 67.8% Great: 100%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 43,127 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	33% Below average	MC Read 10.8 MC Write 10.7 MC Mixed 8.9 29% 10.1 GB/s	SC Read 10.4 SC Write 11.3 SC Mixed 10.5 31% 10.7 GB/s	Latency 59.3 67% 59.3 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 33% Great: 63%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Typical GA-Z97X-UD3H-BK-CF Builds (Compare 581 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H-BK-CF

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	278x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	109x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	86x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	75x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	53x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	46x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	31x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	18x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	16x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	36x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	15x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	14x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $657

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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