Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 31% Sail boat	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 27% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 88.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	28.6% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	66.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	27.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Mar 12 '17 at 20:44
Run Duration	274 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (69^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 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	88.7% Excellent	Memory 96 1-Core 135 2-Core 268 93% 167 Pts	4-Core 438 8-Core 709 70% 574 Pts	64-Core 699 43% 699 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 760-$209 161,132 User benchmarks, average bench 26% Gigabyte(1458 360B) 2GB Ram: 2GB, Driver: 340.43 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	28.6% Poor	Lighting 34.4 Reflection 31.4 Parallax 37.9 28% 34.6 fps	MRender 42.3 Gravity 31.7 Splatting 35.1 30% 36.4 fps
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 28.6% Great: 28%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 330 Series 120GB-$188 11,188 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 4GB free (System drive) Firmware: 300i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 33535105561167 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3355 (B5) Unknown 0 0 2 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2916 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 572093 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 572093 (F2) Unknown 100 100 888764 (F9) Unknown 100 100 19073	66.8% Good	Read 482 Write 126 Mixed 180 57% 263 MB/s	4K Read 25.3 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 15.8 119% 51.9 MB/s	DQ Read 123 DQ Write 128 DQ Mixed 36 52% 95.5 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 66.8% Great: 80%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 58GB free Firmware: 05.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 109 (03) Spinup time 174 170 4275 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4790 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 17721 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3638 (C0) Power-off retract count 197 197 2388 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2401 (C2) HDA temperature 115 95 32 (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 21	44.5% Average	Read 79.7 Write 74.6 Mixed 84.3 60% 79.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.99 4K Write 2.44 4K Mixed 0.47 139% 1.3 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 44.5% Great: 76%
WD WD1002FBYS-02A6B0 1TB 28,278 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 55GB free Firmware: 03.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 1100 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4834 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 38 38 45654 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2471 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 774 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4030 (C2) HDA temperature 112 87 38 (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 2 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	61.5% Good	Read 113 Write 101 Mixed 96.8 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.52 132% 1.18 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 61.5% Great: 62%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$64 143,477 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 6GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 138 137 4066 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5302 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 19796 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3062 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1881 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 175 175 77438 (C2) HDA temperature 114 108 29 (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	51.5% Above average	Read 69.8 Write 109 Mixed 61.9 60% 80.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 2.37 4K Mixed 0.2 100% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 51.5% Great: 85%
Generic Flash Disk 134GB 229 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 44GB free, PID 7777 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	7.78% Terrible	Read 12.2 Write 9.6 Mixed 9.99 13% 10.6 MB/s	4K Read 1.56 4K Write 1.15 4K Mixed 0.62 66% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 7.78% Great: 11%

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 (85^th percentile)	70.4% Very good	MC Read 25.7 MC Write 25.4 MC Mixed 21.1 69% 24.1 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 24.4 SC Mixed 23.9 64% 22.4 GB/s	Latency 54 74% 54 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 70.4% Great: 80%

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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	1,217x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	633x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	396x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	479x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	200x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	198x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	160x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	76x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	69x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	136x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	99x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	96x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $817

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	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