Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 40% Jet ski	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 34% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (37th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 63 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 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 90.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	41.5% 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	126% 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	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

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors, 3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	Sep 29 '16 at 17:30
Run Duration	179 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing below expectations (37^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.9% Outstanding	Memory 95.2 1-Core 125 2-Core 250 88% 157 Pts	4-Core 467 8-Core 700 72% 583 Pts	64-Core 700 43% 700 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 90.9% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-$199 18,014 User benchmarks, average bench 58% Sapphire(174B E329) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 21.19.137.1 Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	41.5% Average	Lighting 53.6 Reflection 37.4 Parallax 68.7 44% 53.2 fps	MRender 35.5 Gravity 50.6 Splatting 48 37% 44.7 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 41.5% Great: 62%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 44GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	126% Outstanding	Read 764 Write 573 Mixed 659 148% 666 MB/s	4K Read 51.2 4K Write 138 4K Mixed 30.8 190% 73.3 MB/s	DQ Read 53.3 DQ Write 157 DQ Mixed 29.9 44% 79.9 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 126% Great: 243%
Crucial M4 64GB-$92 7,336 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 14GB free Firmware: 070H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st 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 16379 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 933 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 49 (AE) Unknown 100 100 65 (B5) Unknown 100 100 8130467856830 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 48 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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	55.1% Above average	Read 506 Write 98.9 Mixed 173 56% 259 MB/s	4K Read 28.9 4K Write 84.5 4K Mixed 4.6 94% 39.3 MB/s	DQ Read 31 DQ Write 104 DQ Mixed 4.57 22% 46.7 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 55.1% Great: 65%
Crucial MX200 500GB-$90 17,487 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 3GB free Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 418 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1969 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 9 (AE) Unknown 100 100 25 (B4) Unknown 0 0 5587 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 69 52 206159478815 (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 8636638182 (F7) Unknown 100 100 269972312 (F8) Unknown 100 100 84157364	55.2% Above average	Read 510 Write 81.1 Mixed 126 51% 239 MB/s	4K Read 31 4K Write 47.2 4K Mixed 16.9 94% 31.7 MB/s	DQ Read 30.8 DQ Write 73.3 DQ Mixed 14.7 22% 39.6 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 55.2% Great: 105%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$32 107,978 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 352GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 107 99 13332066 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1501 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 181472385 (09) Power-on hours count 61 61 34938 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1487 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 1 1 254 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 68 489633743189 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 52 488046621 (C2) HDA temperature 29 48 60129542173 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 34 23 13332066 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 198 37159 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -16488379411994 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1391903072 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3438663684	64.3% Good	Read 113 Write 111 Mixed 101 81% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.82 4K Mixed 0.42 104% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 64.3% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 16G-D3-1866-MR 2x8GB 250 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing below potential (21^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	38.9% Below average	MC Read 12.9 MC Write 12.6 MC Mixed 10.8 35% 12.1 GB/s	SC Read 12.5 SC Write 13.9 SC Mixed 13.5 38% 13.3 GB/s	Latency 56.6 71% 56.6 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 38.9% Great: 71%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

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

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	692x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	194x
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	65x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	49x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 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 $279	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 $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