Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 65% Destroyer	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 55% Gunboat


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 89.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	67.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	65.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit barev, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit barev
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160303
Uptime	2.3 Days
Run Date	Oct 09 '17 at 17:09
Run Duration	169 Seconds
Run User	CZE-User
Background CPU	3%

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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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.9% Excellent	Memory 97 1-Core 125 2-Core 247 89% 156 Pts	4-Core 447 8-Core 678 70% 562 Pts	64-Core 690 43% 690 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% MSI(1462 3281) CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2202 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	67.4% Good	Lighting 85.8 Reflection 82 Parallax 71.9 70% 79.9 fps	MRender 77.8 Gravity 74.8 Splatting 76.4 62% 76.3 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 67.4% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 275GB-$100 67,541 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 156GB free (System drive) Firmware: M0CR050 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th 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 100 100 368 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 285 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 97 97 51 (AE) Unknown 100 100 11 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 67 50 214749610017 (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 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 97 97 3 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 12375130520 (F7) Unknown 100 100 387430700 (F8) Unknown 100 100 148839206 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1250 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	65.7% Good	Read 465 Write 267 Mixed 305 76% 345 MB/s	4K Read 20.7 4K Write 56.7 4K Mixed 10.8 75% 29.4 MB/s	DQ Read 212 DQ Write 202 DQ Mixed 9.49 61% 141 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 65.7% Great: 95%
Sandisk S128G 126GB 21,984 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 77GB free Firmware: 3.1.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 10328 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1644 (A5) Unknown 100 100 274370 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 70 (AE) Unknown 100 100 93 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 67 33 223339085857 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 233 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 496 (F1) Unknown 100 100 12198281175 (F2) Unknown 100 100 19780859169	44.8% Average	Read 419 Write 268 Mixed 289 72% 325 MB/s	4K Read 14 4K Write 15.2 4K Mixed 6.47 38% 11.9 MB/s	DQ Read 14.4 DQ Write 15 DQ Mixed 8.02 8% 12.5 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 44.8% Great: 56%
WD WD6400AAVS-00G9B1 640GB 3,696 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 457GB free Firmware: 05.04C05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 138 132 6091 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12676 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 46 46 39812 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4548 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 202 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 12652 (C2) HDA temperature 111 101 36 (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	46.7% Average	Read 80.7 Write 81.9 Mixed 79.6 61% 80.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 2.16 4K Mixed 0.4 104% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 46.7% Great: 48%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 194GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^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 100 100 599 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4620 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 564 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 19 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3922 (C2) HDA temperature 106 97 37 (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	85.7% Excellent	Read 153 Write 146 Mixed 131 108% 143 MB/s	4K Read 0.92 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.26 108% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 85.7% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GB 1,380 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	79.6% Very good	MC Read 28.9 MC Write 29.3 MC Mixed 25.2 79% 27.8 GB/s	SC Read 19.8 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 25.4 66% 23.2 GB/s	Latency 50.4 79% 50.4 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 79.6% Great: 80%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,217x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	633x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	396x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	479x
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 $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	76x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	69x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	136x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	99x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	96x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $817

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 $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