Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming GT

Performance Results


Gaming 111% UFO	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 91% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 81.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	134% 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	216% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming GT (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150420
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 30 '17 at 05:30
Run Duration	147 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770-$75 176,321 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	81.8% Excellent	Memory 96.8 1-Core 110 2-Core 217 82% 141 Pts	4-Core 362 8-Core 524 55% 443 Pts	64-Core 587 36% 587 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 81.8% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	134% Outstanding	Lighting 190 Reflection 207 Parallax 185 155% 194 fps	MRender 133 Gravity 182 Splatting 125 118% 147 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 134% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 512GB 18,578 User benchmarks, average bench 191% 183GB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	148% Outstanding	Read 1,016 Write 925 Mixed 989 218% 977 MB/s	4K Read 34.7 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 27.1 141% 54.3 MB/s	DQ Read 29.1 DQ Write 406 DQ Mixed 185 153% 207 MB/s
Poor: 82% ↑ This bench: 148% Great: 332%
Intel 750 Series NVMe PCIe 400GB-$550 8,641 User benchmarks, average bench 186% 100GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0171 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	216% Outstanding	Read 2,099 Write 934 Mixed 1,289 317% 1,441 MB/s	4K Read 42.4 4K Write 210 4K Mixed 43.8 231% 98.6 MB/s	DQ Read 43.8 DQ Write 236 DQ Mixed 30 55% 103 MB/s
Poor: 123% ↑ This bench: 216% Great: 230%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 180279336 (03) Spinup time 91 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14556 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 65 57 85963114647 (09) Power-on hours count 63 63 32885 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 128 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 12885098506 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 62 39 10798203928614 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 71 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 36 36 128149 (C2) HDA temperature 38 61 -140737488355290 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -67430986531915 (F1) Unknown 100 253 16402512680 (F2) Unknown 100 253 31929726840	92.1% Outstanding	Read 163 Write 158 Mixed 177 126% 166 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 0.34 4K Mixed 0.12 45% 0.36 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 92.1% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8GBH2X04H1BB31-16 2x8GB 367 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	77% Very good	MC Read 28.4 MC Write 29.1 MC Mixed 23.8 77% 27.1 GB/s	SC Read 18.9 SC Write 20 SC Mixed 24.8 61% 21.2 GB/s	Latency 51.2 78% 51.2 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 77% Great: 80%

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

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 54%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming GT - $300

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	90x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	31x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	23x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	18x
GTX 980-TiNvidia $560Bench 79%, 214,030 samples	17x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	14x

SSD
EX900 NVMe PCIe M.2 120GBHP $33Bench 139%, 2,425 samples	11x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $160Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	9x
S650 240GBHPBench 75%, 488 samples	6x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 2133 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 55%, 993 samples	8x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x8GBKingstonBench 57%, 3,744 samples	7x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	6x

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Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $813

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $46

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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