Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Game Plus

Performance Results


Gaming 102% UFO	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 84.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	119% 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	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.

Run History

2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Game Plus (all builds)
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors, 1024 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150427
Uptime	10.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 06 '21 at 08:48
Run Duration	156 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	84.9% Excellent	Memory 94.2 1-Core 116 2-Core 225 83% 145 Pts	4-Core 438 8-Core 431 58% 434 Pts	64-Core 436 27% 436 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2070S (Super)-$210 663,603 User benchmarks, average bench 115% MSI(1462 C726) CLim: 2130 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 496.49 Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	119% Outstanding	Lighting 158 Reflection 154 Parallax 154 128% 155 fps	MRender 188 Gravity 130 Splatting 116 115% 144 fps
Poor: 105% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 123%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 860 Pro 1TB-$300 8,179 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 885GB free Firmware: RVM02B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 306 287 409 409 419 424 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	119% Outstanding	Read 461 Write 432 Mixed 413 SusWrite 376 95% 420 MB/s	4K Read 33 4K Write 120 4K Mixed 62.7 194% 72.1 MB/s	DQ Read 381 DQ Write 347 DQ Mixed 357 270% 362 MB/s
Poor: 85% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 132%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 630GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC45 SusWrite @10s intervals: 106 47 100 129 141 135 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	85.8% Excellent	Read 189 Write 186 Mixed 80.9 SusWrite 110 104% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.8 155% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 85.8% Great: 112%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 683GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 SusWrite @10s intervals: 124 119 120 104 122 122 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	67.9% Good	Read 117 Write 114 Mixed 25.2 SusWrite 119 68% 93.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 3.1 4K Mixed 1 202% 1.63 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 67.9% Great: 75%
Samsung D3 Station 3TB 1,520 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 2TB free, PID 6124 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 148 164 191 192 193 190 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	62.4% Good	Read 123 Write 89.6 Mixed 66.7 SusWrite 180 156% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.9 91% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 62.4% Great: 79%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GB 122,541 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	71.5% Very good	MC Read 25.7 MC Write 26.7 MC Mixed 22.8 72% 25.1 GB/s	SC Read 19.1 SC Write 21.2 SC Mixed 22.2 60% 20.8 GB/s	Latency 59.2 68% 59.2 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 71.5% Great: 72%

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

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Typical GA-Z97X-Game Plus Builds (Compare 54 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Game Plus

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	26x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	12x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	5x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	8x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	6x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	5x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	5x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	3x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	2x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	11x
Savage DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBHyperXBench 63%, 20,216 samples	3x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	3x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $500	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16