Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 54% Yacht	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 48% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (30th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 70 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 65.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	81.5% 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	62.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB 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 (47%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	8.6 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	10.2 Days
Run Date	May 17 '18 at 20:26
Run Duration	122 Seconds
Run User	POL-User
Background CPU	47%

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PC Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770-$75 176,321 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile)	65.4% Good	Memory 79 1-Core 81.1 2-Core 150 62% 103 Pts	4-Core 280 8-Core 543 49% 411 Pts	64-Core 550 34% 550 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 65.4% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.64 Performing below potential (73^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.5% Excellent	Lighting 101 Reflection 108 Parallax 108 82% 106 fps	MRender 95 Gravity 95.9 Splatting 101 80% 97.2 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 81.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Trion 150 240GB-$196 15,660 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 16GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFZ12.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 14657 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 321 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 181 181 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 142 (C2) HDA temperature 68 49 219044118560 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1962689	62.9% Good	Read 503 Write 310 Mixed 351 86% 388 MB/s	4K Read 3.89 4K Write 52 4K Mixed 9.34 45% 21.7 MB/s	DQ Read 259 DQ Write 210 DQ Mixed 39.1 82% 169 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 62.9% Great: 95%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$27 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 79GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 63 218279904 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 462 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 8872475220 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14651 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 309 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 5 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 52 588709919 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 968 (C2) HDA temperature 31 9 38654705695 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 3 1 218279904 (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 28754806061194 (F1) Unknown 100 253 34582825505 (F2) Unknown 100 253 54291538656	73.1% Very good	Read 112 Write 143 Mixed 109 91% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.36 4K Mixed 0.22 75% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 73.1% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C10D3/4G 0793 GY1600D364L10/8G KHX1600C10D3/4G 0793 GY1600D364L10/8G 24GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 8192, 4096, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	46.3% Average	MC Read 16.5 MC Write 17.5 MC Mixed 15 47% 16.3 GB/s	SC Read 9.9 SC Write 14.3 SC Mixed 12.7 35% 12.3 GB/s	Latency 82.5 48% 82.5 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 46.3% Great: 47%

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

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 - $169

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,227x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	637x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	400x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	484x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	200x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	199x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	160x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	76x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $51Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	69x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	138x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	99x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	97x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $817

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16