Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 43% Speed boat	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 37% Jet ski


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 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 91%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	41.8% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	96% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 08 '18 at 02:35
Run Duration	190 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	10%

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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 i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	91% Outstanding	Memory 96.7 1-Core 130 2-Core 256 91% 161 Pts	4-Core 459 8-Core 690 71% 575 Pts	64-Core 694 43% 694 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$278 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Zotac(19DA 1445) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	41.8% Average	Lighting 47.1 Reflection 54.9 Parallax 44.4 38% 48.8 fps	MRender 67.7 Gravity 47.2 Splatting 61.6 48% 58.9 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 41.8% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 275GB-$100 67,541 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 113GB free Firmware: M0CR050 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1359 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 975 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 17 (AE) Unknown 100 100 168 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 67 58 180389543969 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 4550731629 (F7) Unknown 100 100 142724291 (F8) Unknown 100 100 63354908 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1249 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	77.1% Very good	Read 468 Write 301 Mixed 324 81% 364 MB/s	4K Read 24.2 4K Write 72.5 4K Mixed 21.8 103% 39.5 MB/s	DQ Read 202 DQ Write 216 DQ Mixed 11.1 63% 143 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 95%
Samsung MZNTY128HDHP-000L1 128GB 1,655 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 77GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAT23L0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 821 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 650 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 5 (AE) Unknown 99 99 54 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 945 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 60 49 219044315176 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 16672357 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1209 (F2) Unknown 99 99 1400 (F9) Unknown 99 99 1209	96% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 489 Mixed 501 112% 499 MB/s	4K Read 39.5 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 15.8 142% 57.7 MB/s	DQ Read 40 DQ Write 207 DQ Mixed 11.9 42% 86.2 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 96% Great: 104%
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 55GB free Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4158420 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 -137619342081465 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1209 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 18 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4158420 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4158420 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4158420 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 7588 (EA) Unknown 0 0 5321 (F1) Unknown 0 0 5321 (F2) Unknown 0 0 10744	62.7% Good	Read 462 Write 114 Mixed 185 55% 254 MB/s	4K Read 31.6 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 10.8 121% 51.2 MB/s	DQ Read 26 DQ Write 127 DQ Mixed 11.2 28% 54.9 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 62.7% Great: 82%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$25 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 767GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 215581944 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1046 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 233078673 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14150 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1001 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 2 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 52 504692766 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 100 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2979 (C2) HDA temperature 30 48 60129542174 (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 -43611097909467 (F1) Unknown 100 253 15057161996 (F2) Unknown 100 253 739749413071	108% Outstanding	Read 190 Write 186 Mixed 179 139% 185 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 0.24 100% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 112%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$28 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 536GB free Firmware: 02.01A02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 170 2108 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 284 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 257 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 224 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 16 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 642 (C2) HDA temperature 112 109 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	85.2% Excellent	Read 154 Write 143 Mixed 138 109% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 2.05 4K Mixed 0.26 97% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 85.2% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
XM1D3LF4GB26826821 4x4GB 12 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2000 MHz Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	73.8% Very good	MC Read 26.8 MC Write 26.8 MC Mixed 22.4 72% 25.3 GB/s	SC Read 20.1 SC Write 24.2 SC Mixed 24.4 65% 22.9 GB/s	Latency 51.4 78% 51.4 ns
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 80%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

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Workstation 36%

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

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	697x
Core i5-4690KIntel $50Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	195x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	102x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	147x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	82x
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 $76Bench 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 i5-12600K $170	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $122	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $28	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16