Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3

Performance Results


Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	65% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3 (all builds)
Memory	3.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141021
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Jan 09 '18 at 13:18
Run Duration	244 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	16%

PC Performing as expected (59^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	86.2% Excellent	Memory 93.6 1-Core 122 2-Core 237 86% 151 Pts	4-Core 425 8-Core 657 67% 541 Pts	64-Core 635 39% 635 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Gigabyte(1458 3685) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1443 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	65% Good	Lighting 83.8 Reflection 82.1 Parallax 81.8 68% 82.6 fps	MRender 77.5 Gravity 73 Splatting 66 58% 72.2 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 65% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 34GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3265 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1328 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (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 56 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 930184424	95.3% Outstanding	Read 495 Write 395 Mixed 411 96% 434 MB/s	4K Read 29.2 4K Write 60.1 4K Mixed 36 122% 41.8 MB/s	DQ Read 335 DQ Write 267 DQ Mixed 20.3 92% 207 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 95.3% Great: 115%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$27 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 136GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 219765776 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2326 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 391482868 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4892 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2320 (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 70 43 9094889502 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 87 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3074 (C2) HDA temperature 30 57 51539607582 (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 -63402307218530 (F1) Unknown 100 253 87602747548 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1397259111336	95.2% Outstanding	Read 193 Write 139 Mixed 139 118% 157 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.79 4K Mixed 0.2 76% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 95.2% Great: 112%
USB Flash Disk 6GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 5GB free, PID 1000 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	6.8% Terrible	Read 23.9 Write 7.9 Mixed 5.4 12% 12.4 MB/s	4K Read 6.77 4K Write 0.004 4K Mixed 0.004 25% 2.26 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 6.8% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 44,086 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	33.5% Below average	MC Read 11 MC Write 10.9 MC Mixed 9.5 30% 10.5 GB/s	SC Read 9.7 SC Write 11.1 SC Mixed 10.5 30% 10.4 GB/s	Latency 60.7 66% 60.7 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 33.5% Great: 64%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 38%

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Desktop 79%

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Workstation 30%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3

CPU
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	626x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	545x
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	364x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	309x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	229x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	207x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	161x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	120x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	93x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	149x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	66x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	65x

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Value: 53% - Above average

Total price: $353

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $95	Nvidia RTX 4070 $500	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	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