Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 79.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Boot Drive	145% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (57%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	28.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	14.7 Days
Run Date	Apr 06 '18 at 17:52
Run Duration	1035 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	57%

PC Performing as expected (45^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	79.2% Very good	Memory 95.3 1-Core 117 2-Core 228 84% 147 Pts	4-Core 341 8-Core 605 57% 473 Pts	64-Core 595 37% 595 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 79.2% Great: 84%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Ocz-vert EX4 512GB 84 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 297GB free Firmware: 1.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 6 0 6 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 4 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 366 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 91 (E8) Unknown 100 100 10612582127 (E9) Unknown 100 0 100	73.9% Very good	Read 315 Write 229 Mixed 272 60% 272 MB/s	4K Read 30.9 4K Write 79.4 4K Mixed 32.7 131% 47.6 MB/s	DQ Read 187 DQ Write 150 DQ Mixed 93.7 90% 143 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 111%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 155GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3123 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1020 (B1) Unknown 98 98 27 (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 76 53 24 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 54 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12982036494	112% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 414 Mixed 421 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 46.2 4K Write 88.8 4K Mixed 48.1 179% 61 MB/s	DQ Read 284 DQ Write 212 DQ Mixed 103 116% 200 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 124%
Samsung SM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 128GB 1,293 User benchmarks, average bench 211% 45GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXZ7300Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	145% Outstanding	Read 703 Write 640 Mixed 684 151% 676 MB/s	4K Read 49.3 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 54.8 201% 70.1 MB/s	DQ Read 419 DQ Write 316 DQ Mixed 175 183% 303 MB/s
Poor: 133% ↑ This bench: 145% Great: 273%
Samsung SM841 2.5" 7mm 256GB 2,869 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 31GB free Firmware: DXM0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1807 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 93 93 243 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 9152 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 14093936461 (F2) Unknown 99 99 12629246973	38.8% Below average	Read 204 Write 78.3 Mixed 136 31% 139 MB/s	4K Read 11.7 4K Write 64.9 4K Mixed 15.9 72% 30.8 MB/s	DQ Read 84.1 DQ Write 96.5 DQ Mixed 38 43% 72.9 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 38.8% Great: 107%
WD WD1002FBYS-02A6B0 1TB 28,278 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 582GB free Firmware: 03.00C09 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 1208 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1135 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 42 42 42393 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 927 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 95 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1036 (C2) HDA temperature 131 93 19 (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 0	40.8% Average	Read 76.2 Write 65.7 Mixed 70.9 54% 70.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.29 83% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 40.8% Great: 62%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 273GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 165035128 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1698 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 36595317 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7387 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1287 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 81 53 64744325139 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 316 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 31325 (C2) HDA temperature 19 47 -140737488355309 (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 -131408819383588 (F1) Unknown 100 253 24160075327 (F2) Unknown 100 253 22145905872	100% Outstanding	Read 190 Write 159 Mixed 141 122% 163 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.24 73% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GB 12,722 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	68.9% Good	MC Read 25.4 MC Write 25.3 MC Mixed 21 68% 23.9 GB/s	SC Read 17 SC Write 20.4 SC Mixed 23.5 58% 20.3 GB/s	Latency 56.1 71% 56.1 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 68.9% Great: 80%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 - $175

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	694x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	195x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	101x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	147x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	81x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	66x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	50x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	36x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	32x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	51x
HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GBKingstonBench 61%, 11,630 samples	40x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	36x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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