Gigabyte GA-Z97M-D3H

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 19% Surfboard	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	20.8% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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 (62%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97M-D3H (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1440 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150420
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 30 '17 at 21:11
Run Duration	122 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	62%

PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3-$45 19,313 User benchmarks, average bench 73% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	82.3% Excellent	Memory 90.9 1-Core 113 2-Core 210 80% 138 Pts	4-Core 398 8-Core 572 61% 485 Pts	64-Core 573 35% 573 Pts
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 560 Ti-$188 42,397 User benchmarks, average bench 16% Asus(1043 838B) 1GB CLim: 830 MHz, MLim: 1002 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 376.54 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	20.8% Poor	Lighting 26.8 Reflection 23.7 Parallax 18.2 22% 22.9 fps	MRender 27.1 Gravity 20.6 Splatting 21.6 19% 23.1 fps
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 20.8% Great: 18%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$76 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 963GB free (System drive) Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 3023 (03) Spinup time 180 175 5983 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1096 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5310 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1096 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 40 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1055 (C2) HDA temperature 122 84 28 (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	71.7% Very good	Read 130 Write 120 Mixed 114 91% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.99 4K Mixed 0.26 88% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 71.7% Great: 88%
Samsung HD103SI 1TB-$89 48,059 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 117GB free Firmware: 1AG01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 82 82 6130 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5058 (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 98 98 10015 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 2 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3004 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 82 38 303169554 (C2) HDA temperature 79 35 4995400466453 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 547016 (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 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	38.4% Below average	Read 66 Write 67.5 Mixed 69.9 51% 67.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.4 96% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 38.4% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMX8GX3M2A1333C9 0420 F3-12800CL9-4GBXL 0215 CMX8GX3M2A1333C9 0420 F3-12800CL9-4GBXL 16GB 13 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	52% Above average	MC Read 17.9 MC Write 18.7 MC Mixed 15.5 50% 17.4 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 19.9 SC Mixed 17.7 50% 17.5 GB/s	Latency 65.9 61% 65.9 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 52% Great: 58%

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Gaming 9%

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Desktop 73%

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Workstation 8%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97M-D3H - $126

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	192x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	156x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	91x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	98x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	68x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	47x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	39x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	28x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	20x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	44x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	30x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 58%, 8,730 samples	12x

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Total price: $589

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 $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 $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