Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 116% UFO	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 98% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 92.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	126% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	10.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150512
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 16 '18 at 11:19
Run Duration	205 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	16%

PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.2% Outstanding	Memory 97.5 1-Core 137 2-Core 271 94% 169 Pts	4-Core 469 8-Core 715 73% 592 Pts	64-Core 710 44% 710 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 92.2% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 360C) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing below potential (64^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	126% Outstanding	Lighting 173 Reflection 196 Parallax 190 141% 186 fps	MRender 125 Gravity 174 Splatting 124 114% 141 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 126% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 290GB free Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5217 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 883 (A5) Unknown 100 100 60172796501 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 52 (A8) Unknown 100 100 32 (A9) Unknown 100 100 1864 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 9 (AE) Unknown 100 100 58 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 65 279173988379 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1400177951046 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 9903 (EA) Unknown 100 100 12257 (F1) Unknown 253 253 10703 (F2) Unknown 253 253 6463 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	73.3% Very good	Read 482 Write 303 Mixed 276 78% 354 MB/s	4K Read 23.3 4K Write 41.3 4K Mixed 19.4 82% 28 MB/s	DQ Read 305 DQ Write 181 DQ Mixed 32.1 80% 173 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 73.3% Great: 107%
Crucial MX500 1TB-$80 202,785 User benchmarks, average bench 106% 220GB free Firmware: M3CR010 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd 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 100 100 793 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 163 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 8 (AE) Unknown 100 100 5 (B4) Unknown 0 0 41 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 62 52 206158430246 (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 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 3763047257 (F7) Unknown 100 100 60546869 (F8) Unknown 100 100 120463329	103% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 390 Mixed 417 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 34.6 4K Write 84.7 4K Mixed 41.7 151% 53.7 MB/s	DQ Read 303 DQ Write 225 DQ Mixed 85.3 112% 204 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 125%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 214GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6093 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1172 (B1) Unknown 99 99 11 (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 67 48 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 48 (F1) Unknown 99 99 18293036879	102% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 405 Mixed 423 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 39.6 4K Write 86.8 4K Mixed 33.4 149% 53.3 MB/s	DQ Read 311 DQ Write 227 DQ Mixed 116 128% 218 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 133%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 91GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6534 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1367 (B1) Unknown 95 95 89 (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 59 46 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 55 (F1) Unknown 99 99 33117303981
Poor: 72% Great: 124%
Toshiba X300 6TB-$78 5,594 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 2TB free Firmware: FS2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 2535 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 201 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 1849 (0A) Spinup retry count 104 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 201 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 7 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 522 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 180389675039 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 96 96 1727 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 543 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	87.3% Excellent	Read 151 Write 153 Mixed 146 113% 150 MB/s	4K Read 1.73 4K Write 2.13 4K Mixed 0.34 149% 1.4 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 109%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 5TB 1,185 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 656GB free, PID d011 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	71.4% Very good	Read 168 Write 170 Mixed 150 209% 163 MB/s	4K Read 12.8 4K Write 2.23 4K Mixed 0.29 133% 5.1 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 71.4% Great: 81%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR3 2133 C9 2x8GB 1,133 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	78.2% Very good	MC Read 27.9 MC Write 28.8 MC Mixed 24.4 77% 27 GB/s	SC Read 20.1 SC Write 24.7 SC Mixed 24.6 66% 23.1 GB/s	Latency 48.1 83% 48.1 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 78.2% Great: 81%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 - $162

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	848x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	348x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	158x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	318x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	113x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	97x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	61x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	41x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	99x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	66x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	63x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16