Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 3% Tree trunk	Desktop 49% Yacht	Workstation 3% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 58.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	1.1% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (46%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H (all builds)
Memory	4.2 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140628
Uptime	1.5 Days
Run Date	Mar 08 '18 at 14:35
Run Duration	299 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	46%

PC Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	58.3% Above average	Memory 81.1 1-Core 52.5 2-Core 107 51% 80.1 Pts	4-Core 202 8-Core 236 28% 219 Pts	64-Core 328 20% 328 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 58.3% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 5450 66,079 User benchmarks, average bench 1% PwrHis(1787 2291) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 12.104.0.0 Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	1.1% Terrible	Lighting 1.33 Reflection 1.73 Parallax 1.59 1% 1.55 fps	MRender 1.76 Gravity 0.83 Splatting 1.52 1% 1.37 fps
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 1.1% Great: 1%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD Blue 2TB (2015)-$78 253,816 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 39GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 2 (03) Spinup time 185 176 5725 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4401 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6376 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1103 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 120 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 184 184 49584 (C2) HDA temperature 113 106 37 (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 7 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	63.4% Good	Read 109 Write 112 Mixed 79.8 75% 100 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.73 4K Mixed 0.27 89% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 84%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 54GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 184 176 5791 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5893 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 13256 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2293 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 248 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 118 118 246933 (C2) HDA temperature 113 103 37 (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 10 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	69.6% Good	Read 118 Write 125 Mixed 92.6 84% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.32 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.19 61% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 69.6% Great: 84%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 47GB free (System drive) Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 183 165 3833 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2724 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 14972 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2715 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 330 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 163 163 112990 (C2) HDA temperature 110 92 37 (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 8 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	73.2% Very good	Read 127 Write 128 Mixed 92.2 86% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.69 4K Mixed 0.21 74% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 73.2% Great: 84%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 2TB 514 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 1TB free, PID a102 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	33.4% Below average	Read 91.1 Write 76.4 Mixed 17.9 71% 61.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.13 4K Mixed 0.14 44% 0.55 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 33.4% Great: 50%
Sony Hard Drive 1TB 1,429 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 24GB free, PID 0b7e Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)	28.2% Poor	Read 63 Write 67.5 Mixed 18.6 60% 49.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.39 4K Mixed 0.2 56% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 28.2% Great: 50%
Generic Mass-Storage 32GB 2,578 User benchmarks, average bench 11% 3GB free, PID null Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	5.83% Terrible	Read 15.1 Write 16.2 Mixed 9.91 17% 13.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.08 4K Write 0.03 4K Mixed 0.04 3% 0.05 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 5.83% Great: 19%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99P5474-013.A00LF 2x4GB 772 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	50.1% Above average	MC Read 20 MC Write 18.9 MC Mixed 16 52% 18.3 GB/s	SC Read 9.6 SC Write 10.9 SC Mixed 11.5 30% 10.7 GB/s	Latency 78.5 51% 78.5 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 50.1% Great: 59%

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Gaming 8%

Tree trunk

Desktop 66%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 8%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H - $84

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	483x
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	337x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	242x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	277x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	168x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	124x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	83x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	70x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	55x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	61x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	56x
Ballistix Sport DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCrucialBench 56%, 44,086 samples	28x

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Value: 55% - Above average

Total price: $334

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 $182	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