Gigabyte GA-Z97-D3H-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (39th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 61 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 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 73.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	102% 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	58.1% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

High background CPU (22%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Gigabyte Z97-D3H
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97-D3H-CF (all builds)
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	2 Days
Run Date	Dec 20 '17 at 14:33
Run Duration	195 Seconds
Run User	CHE-User
Background CPU	22%

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PC Performing below expectations (39^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-$50 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	73.7% Very good	Memory 83.2 1-Core 103 2-Core 204 74% 130 Pts	4-Core 368 8-Core 391 50% 379 Pts	64-Core 364 22% 364 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 73.7% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 85AA) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.59 Performing below potential (51^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	102% Outstanding	Lighting 132 Reflection 138 Parallax 122 108% 131 fps	MRender 111 Gravity 127 Splatting 104 92% 114 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 500GB 31,052 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 29GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5534 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 606 (B1) Unknown 97 97 15 (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 74 59 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 23 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12605326138	77% Very good	Read 479 Write 268 Mixed 272 75% 340 MB/s	4K Read 35.9 4K Write 59.7 4K Mixed 28.2 122% 41.3 MB/s	DQ Read 39.2 DQ Write 170 DQ Mixed 64.8 61% 91.2 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 77% Great: 123%
Corsair Force GS 128GB-$150 5,048 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 4GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.05A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 105 10330466 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 -91981019591872 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4150 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 415 (B1) Unknown 0 0 6 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 29 71 55839227933 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 10330466 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 10330466 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 10330466 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 87 87 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 59201 (EA) Unknown 0 0 43595 (F1) Unknown 0 0 43595 (F2) Unknown 0 0 23747	58.1% Above average	Read 405 Write 224 Mixed 159 58% 263 MB/s	4K Read 24.7 4K Write 67.2 4K Mixed 9.35 85% 33.8 MB/s	DQ Read 30.9 DQ Write 157 DQ Mixed 8.17 31% 65.4 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 58.1% Great: 86%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$90 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 1TB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 163920872 (03) Spinup time 96 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4866 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 109803350 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 16337 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3710 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 12885426185 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 49 521469983 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1995 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 77 77 47301 (C2) HDA temperature 31 51 55834574879 (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 27182848031433 (F1) Unknown 100 253 66899786176 (F2) Unknown 100 253 88794012641	80.4% Excellent	Read 120 Write 159 Mixed 144 106% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 5.45 4K Mixed 0.59 193% 2.23 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 108%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$34 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 622GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 177 169 4116 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11464 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 21657 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4845 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 169 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 11294 (C2) HDA temperature 111 102 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 3	72.9% Very good	Read 135 Write 118 Mixed 117 93% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 2.11 4K Mixed 0.49 123% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 72.9% Great: 76%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB-$230 19,674 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 581GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 197780656 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2750 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 66138360 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8178 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2613 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295163908 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 58 521469983 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 20 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 82 82 37337 (C2) HDA temperature 31 42 55834574879 (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 65163243821051 (F1) Unknown 100 253 47446320725 (F2) Unknown 100 253 121859280819	61.5% Good	Read 81.6 Write 132 Mixed 104 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 5.36 4K Mixed 0.42 174% 2.15 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 61.5% Great: 94%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CML8GX3M2A1600C9 0215 CML8GX3M2A1600C9 0215 CML8GX3M2A1600C9 0215 CML4GX3M1A1600C9 16GB 17 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (20^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	48.2% Average	MC Read 16.2 MC Write 18.1 MC Mixed 15 47% 16.4 GB/s	SC Read 13 SC Write 16.6 SC Mixed 15.6 43% 15.1 GB/s	Latency 74.9 53% 74.9 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 48.2% Great: 83%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97-D3H-CF

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	429x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	329x
Core i5-4690KIntel $50Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	217x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	169x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	142x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	116x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	53x
MX500 500GBCrucial $53Bench 106%, 237,241 samples	33x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	28x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	67x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	62x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	26x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $122	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $44

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $28	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