Gigabyte GA-Z97M-DS3H

Performance Results


Gaming 38% Jet ski	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 31% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	38.4% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	34.8% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait 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.

Run History

8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97M-DS3H (all builds)
Memory	6.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150421
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 22 '16 at 00:20
Run Duration	178 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing above expectations (80^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-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.8% Excellent	Memory 95.5 1-Core 116 2-Core 236 85% 149 Pts	4-Core 464 8-Core 461 62% 462 Pts	64-Core 458 28% 458 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 380-$200 83,027 User benchmarks, average bench 33% MSI(1462 2015) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.1201.0 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	38.4% Below average	Lighting 48.5 Reflection 53.7 Parallax 57.3 40% 53.2 fps	MRender 50.9 Gravity 42.3 Splatting 41.3 36% 44.8 fps
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 38.4% Great: 35%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 61GB free Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 2 100 2 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 146 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3 (A9) Unknown 100 100 40 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 101 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 67 100 176093659169 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 493 (F1) Unknown 253 253 482 (F2) Unknown 253 253 350	79.6% Very good	Read 493 Write 359 Mixed 405 93% 419 MB/s	4K Read 20.3 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 4.25 96% 45.8 MB/s	DQ Read 236 DQ Write 290 DQ Mixed 4.15 75% 177 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 79.6% Great: 86%
Corsair Force 60GB 1,468 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 36GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.1b Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 99 10148963 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 106807246726809 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2486 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 268 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 24 53 55838048280 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 105 99 10148963 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 768 (EA) Unknown 0 0 960 (F1) Unknown 0 0 960 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2112	34.8% Below average	Read 225 Write 58.4 Mixed 102 28% 128 MB/s	4K Read 14.7 4K Write 60.8 4K Mixed 12.4 70% 29.3 MB/s	DQ Read 16.4 DQ Write 55.4 DQ Mixed 8 14% 26.6 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 34.8% Great: 51%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 325GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 113619529 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6956 (05) Reallocated sector count 93 93 307 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 83683079 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5372 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2884 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 99 99 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 48 471597084 (C2) HDA temperature 28 52 38654705692 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 44 26 113619529 (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 -112502373337641 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3852853610 (F2) Unknown 100 253 136669708	62.5% Good	Read 110 Write 108 Mixed 95.2 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.39 99% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 62.5% Great: 70%
WD VelociRaptor 300GB-$90 11,249 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 217GB free Firmware: 04.04V06 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 200 198 2983 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5297 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10813 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2869 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 405 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5297 (C2) HDA temperature 119 99 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	64.3% Good	Read 111 Write 113 Mixed 113 85% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.97 4K Write 2.69 4K Mixed 0.63 160% 1.43 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 64.3% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905403-199.A00LF 2x4GB 869 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	65% Good	MC Read 22.8 MC Write 23.4 MC Mixed 20.2 63% 22.1 GB/s	SC Read 18.3 SC Write 21.4 SC Mixed 21.3 58% 20.3 GB/s	Latency 55.5 72% 55.5 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 65% Great: 64%

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Gaming 8%

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Desktop 72%

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Workstation 8%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97M-DS3H - $100

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	110x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	68x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	68x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	54x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	46x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	33x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	18x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	17x
MX500 500GBCrucial $50Bench 106%, 237,241 samples	16x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	22x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	19x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C9 2x4GBKingstonBench 51%, 7,948 samples	16x

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Total price: $543

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16