Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	93.5% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	136% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	9.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors, 1024 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	2.6 Days
Run Date	Mar 04 '18 at 17:39
Run Duration	300 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	78.9% Very good	Memory 86.7 1-Core 108 2-Core 216 78% 137 Pts	4-Core 384 8-Core 570 59% 477 Pts	64-Core 535 33% 535 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 78.9% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% PNY(196E 1511) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1652 MHz, MLim: 1952 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.5% Outstanding	Lighting 120 Reflection 127 Parallax 114 98% 120 fps	MRender 106 Gravity 111 Splatting 99.3 86% 106 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 70GB free Firmware: DXM05B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 33920 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1045 (B1) Unknown 91 91 306 (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 75 50 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 95 (F1) Unknown 99 99 62139793310	95.1% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 320 Mixed 384 89% 404 MB/s	4K Read 33.9 4K Write 100 4K Mixed 28 140% 54 MB/s	DQ Read 352 DQ Write 262 DQ Mixed 83 123% 232 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 95.1% Great: 116%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 31GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	136% Outstanding	Read 1,177 Write 391 Mixed 791 173% 786 MB/s	4K Read 46.6 4K Write 137 4K Mixed 44.5 200% 76 MB/s	DQ Read 47.9 DQ Write 182 DQ Mixed 27.1 46% 85.8 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 136% Great: 243%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 70560400 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5895 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 59 59 287813906751 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 29205 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 943 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 73 47 241073455131 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 51 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 56 56 89099 (C2) HDA temperature 27 53 -140737488355301 (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 49782965938148 (F1) Unknown 100 253 31642429958 (F2) Unknown 100 253 42749926924	85.2% Excellent	Read 159 Write 139 Mixed 126 106% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.44 4K Mixed 0.24 76% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 85.2% Great: 114%
USB DISK 2.0 4GB 771 User benchmarks, average bench 4% 4GB free, PID 3e00 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	5.89% Terrible	Read 17.8 Write 6.77 Mixed 9.9 13% 11.5 MB/s	4K Read 7.67 4K Write 0.008 4K Mixed 0.02 29% 2.57 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 5.89% Great: 6%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Sniper DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GB 4,251 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	50.8% Above average	MC Read 17.9 MC Write 18.3 MC Mixed 15.7 49% 17.3 GB/s	SC Read 12.4 SC Write 18.7 SC Mixed 16.7 46% 15.9 GB/s	Latency 70.7 57% 70.7 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 50.8% Great: 71%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 - $135

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	358x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	199x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	71x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	121x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	73x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	64x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	59x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	37x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	20x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	49x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	25x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 49%, 28,220 samples	23x

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Total price: $783

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) $30	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