Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 114% UFO	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 98% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 83%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	138% 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	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.

High background CPU (27%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	14.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.8 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 16 '17 at 16:17
Run Duration	157 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	27%

PC Performing above expectations (74^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 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	83% Excellent	Memory 95.8 1-Core 129 2-Core 251 90% 159 Pts	4-Core 379 8-Core 673 63% 526 Pts	64-Core 678 42% 678 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 83% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3602) CLim: 2050 MHz, MLim: 2815 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	138% Outstanding	Lighting 195 Reflection 219 Parallax 194 159% 203 fps	MRender 138 Gravity 195 Splatting 135 126% 156 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 138% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 46GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	118% Outstanding	Read 720 Write 546 Mixed 556 135% 607 MB/s	4K Read 55.9 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 25.2 179% 66.4 MB/s	DQ Read 54.7 DQ Write 122 DQ Mixed 23.6 36% 66.6 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 236%
PNY SSD2SC240G1SA754D117-820 240GB 3,306 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 42GB free Firmware: N0530A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd 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 1165 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2346 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 345 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 64587 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 56 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 104 (A3) Unknown 100 100 25 (A4) Unknown 100 100 73144 (A5) Unknown 100 100 272 (A6) Unknown 100 100 31 (A7) Unknown 100 100 71 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (B1) Unknown 100 100 166 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 10108 (F2) Unknown 100 100 23657	94.5% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 299 Mixed 378 88% 397 MB/s	4K Read 27.7 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 33.1 143% 57.4 MB/s	DQ Read 274 DQ Write 280 DQ Mixed 70.6 110% 208 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 94.5% Great: 96%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 132GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 170 2316 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2912 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3070 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1387 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 132 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2780 (C2) HDA temperature 112 102 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	83.3% Excellent	Read 150 Write 140 Mixed 121 103% 137 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 2.26 4K Mixed 0.28 92% 1 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 109%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 159GB free Firmware: 1AA01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 74 74 8580 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 9717 (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 9490 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 1 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 92 92 7630 (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 75 53 420544537 (C2) HDA temperature 72 48 470876188 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 284702 (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 100 100 457 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	64.2% Good	Read 110 Write 113 Mixed 108 83% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 2.01 4K Mixed 0.46 119% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 64.2% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 4x4GB 14,299 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1800 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	65.8% Good	MC Read 24.4 MC Write 23.8 MC Mixed 18.4 63% 22.2 GB/s	SC Read 18.3 SC Write 23.2 SC Mixed 23.1 62% 21.5 GB/s	Latency 54.6 73% 54.6 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 65.8% Great: 64%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

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Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 - $169

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,221x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	633x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	400x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	482x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	200x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	198x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	160x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	76x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	69x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	137x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	99x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	97x

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Total price: $817

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	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 $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) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16