Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 5% Tree trunk	Desktop 45% Speed boat	Workstation 4% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (23rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 77 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 43.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	3.11% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	61.6% 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.

Very high background CPU (40%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	10.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Nov 05 '17 at 17:20
Run Duration	164 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	40%

PC Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4670K-$62 128,482 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	43.1% Average	Memory 45 1-Core 78 2-Core 163 51% 95.4 Pts	4-Core 239 8-Core 236 32% 237 Pts	64-Core 352 22% 352 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 43.1% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Gigabyte(1458 D000) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4703 Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	3.11% Terrible	Lighting 3.27 Reflection 4.85 Parallax 4.66 3% 4.26 fps	MRender 6 Gravity 2.13 Splatting 6.09 4% 4.74 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.11% Great: 3%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Vertex 3 MAX IOPS 120GB-$106 3,124 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 21GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 92 92 24682452 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 19241453505212 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4523 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 1 (AE) Unknown 0 0 806 (B1) Unknown 0 0 11 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 24682452 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 24682452 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 24682452 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 23662 (EA) Unknown 0 0 23591 (F1) Unknown 0 0 23591 (F2) Unknown 0 0 34925	61.6% Good	Read 469 Write 141 Mixed 201 59% 271 MB/s	4K Read 22 4K Write 68.9 4K Mixed 14.4 88% 35.1 MB/s	DQ Read 234 DQ Write 149 DQ Mixed 61.6 81% 148 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 61.6% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$67 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 99 4902184 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3600 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 4419762911 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 10035 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2875 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 11 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 48 30653415458 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 193 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 80 80 40445 (C2) HDA temperature 34 52 -140737488355294 (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 -1949915143470 (F1) Unknown 100 253 96153405379 (F2) Unknown 100 253 119099080014	66.7% Good	Read 120 Write 113 Mixed 96.3 82% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.1 4K Write 0.65 4K Mixed 0.17 34% 0.3 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 66.7% Great: 113%
ASMT 2115 4TB 452 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 778GB free, PID 1153 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	40.1% Average	Read 109 Write 101 Mixed 92.9 128% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.16 4K Write 0.73 4K Mixed 0.1 29% 0.33 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 40.1% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GB 11,630 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Relative performance (0^th percentile)	19% Very poor	MC Read 5.7 MC Write 8.5 MC Mixed 5.8 19% 6.67 GB/s	SC Read 3.6 SC Write 6.1 SC Mixed 5.2 14% 4.97 GB/s	Latency 180 22% 180 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 19% Great: 79%

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

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

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

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,222x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	635x
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	199x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	160x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	76x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $79Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	69x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	138x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	99x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	97x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16