Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4

Performance Results


Gaming 52% Yacht	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 44% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	63.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	75.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 (all builds)
Memory	29.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130905
Uptime	1.5 Days
Run Date	Oct 15 '17 at 22:05
Run Duration	199 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	74.2% Very good	Memory 83.2 1-Core 89.5 2-Core 200 71% 124 Pts	4-Core 354 8-Core 496 54% 425 Pts	64-Core 496 31% 496 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 74.2% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 2982) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	63.8% Good	Lighting 80.9 Reflection 86.4 Parallax 82.7 66% 83.3 fps	MRender 79 Gravity 74.1 Splatting 67.7 60% 73.6 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 63.8% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 127GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM05B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8001 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2852 (B1) Unknown 97 97 105 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 63 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 51 (F1) Unknown 99 99 14773599724	75.3% Very good	Read 511 Write 435 Mixed 487 107% 478 MB/s	4K Read 22.9 4K Write 37.9 4K Mixed 17.4 77% 26.1 MB/s	DQ Read 25.8 DQ Write 204 DQ Mixed 73.6 69% 101 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 75.3% Great: 116%
Marvell Raid VD 0 4TB 324 User benchmarks, average bench 108% 3TB free Firmware: 1.01 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	159% Outstanding	Read 310 Write 245 Mixed 223 194% 259 MB/s	4K Read 1.78 4K Write 4.44 4K Mixed 0.58 221% 2.27 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 159% Great: 157%
WD Black 4TB (2013)-$178 20,205 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 148 142 11600 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1835 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6433 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1833 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1828 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 6 (C2) HDA temperature 120 96 32 (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	79.2% Very good	Read 147 Write 129 Mixed 128 101% 135 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 2.58 4K Mixed 0.2 89% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 79.2% Great: 98%
WD WD7500AACS-00D6B0 750GB 4,630 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 256GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 162 159 6858 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9488 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 22803 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6618 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 199 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9268 (C2) HDA temperature 119 101 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 24 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	39.8% Below average	Read 79 Write 59.2 Mixed 60.6 50% 66.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.25 84% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 39.8% Great: 46%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$65 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 149GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 166 162 6675 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8584 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 19072 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5407 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 192 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8584 (C2) HDA temperature 117 96 33 (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	33% Below average	Read 60 Write 54.5 Mixed 56 43% 56.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.78 4K Mixed 0.34 93% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 33% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLT8G3D1608DT 4x8GB 88 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	80.2% Excellent	MC Read 30.6 MC Write 32.9 MC Mixed 29.4 88% 31 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 13.2 SC Mixed 11.7 38% 13.5 GB/s	Latency 74.8 54% 74.8 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 80.2% Great: 93%

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

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Desktop 79%

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Workstation 50%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 - $480

CPU
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	275x
Core i7-4930KIntel $100Bench 77%, 22,204 samples	195x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	187x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	58x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	49x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	47x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	45x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	26x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	21x

RAM
DDR3 1866 4x4GBAdataBench 68%, 420 samples	23x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 60%, 738 samples	16x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 67%, 1,867 samples	15x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $802

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) $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