Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 92.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	90.6% 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	91.4% 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.

System	Gigabyte Z97X-SLI
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI-CF (all builds)
Memory	14 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 31 '17 at 00:04
Run Duration	205 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (73^rd 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 (100^th percentile)	92.6% Outstanding	Memory 94.2 1-Core 132 2-Core 260 91% 162 Pts	4-Core 491 8-Core 698 75% 595 Pts	64-Core 698 43% 698 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 92.6% Great: 87%

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: 382.33 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.6% Outstanding	Lighting 115 Reflection 121 Parallax 102 94% 113 fps	MRender 99.5 Gravity 104 Splatting 104 84% 103 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 20GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7343 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1258 (B1) Unknown 95 95 94 (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 69 53 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 23 (F1) Unknown 99 99 26237639111	91.4% Outstanding	Read 497 Write 402 Mixed 414 97% 438 MB/s	4K Read 38.8 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 20 138% 53.6 MB/s	DQ Read 36.4 DQ Write 283 DQ Mixed 18.6 56% 113 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 91.4% Great: 124%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 183 182 3850 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 43 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 73 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 7 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 43 (C2) HDA temperature 124 112 23 (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	111% Outstanding	Read 188 Write 197 Mixed 180 142% 188 MB/s	4K Read 1.01 4K Write 3.16 4K Mixed 0.5 156% 1.56 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 112%
Samsung HD322HJ 320GB-$44 40,147 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 297GB free Firmware: 1AC01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 92 92 3360 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 7667 (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 19609 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3984 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 85 59 252641295 (C2) HDA temperature 82 57 302972946 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 33446 (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 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	50.6% Above average	Read 96.4 Write 79.8 Mixed 92.1 68% 89.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.96 4K Mixed 0.35 101% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 50.6% Great: 62%
Samsung HD502HI 500GB-$154 24,344 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 66GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 97 0 (03) Spinup time 93 93 3150 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 6828 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 9 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 4 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 10183 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 26501 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 34 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5261 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 97 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 1 1 376 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 284 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 85 55 252641295 (C2) HDA temperature 82 54 302972946 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 469997 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 9 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 98 736 (C8) Write error rate 100 98 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	54.6% Above average	Read 94.7 Write 95.3 Mixed 96.4 72% 95.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.32 85% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 54.6% Great: 59%
WD WD800JD-75MSA3 80GB-$105 18,464 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 2GB free Firmware: 10.01E01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 166 163 2666 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10533 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 59 59 30339 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 7031 (BE) vendor-specific 73 35 27 (C2) HDA temperature 116 78 27 (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 2145 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	20.2% Poor	Read 34.9 Write 35.1 Mixed 34.7 26% 34.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.17 4K Mixed 0.37 88% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 20.2% Great: 33%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 16,567 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	61.4% Good	MC Read 21.7 MC Write 22 MC Mixed 18.4 59% 20.7 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 23.4 SC Mixed 20.7 58% 20.4 GB/s	Latency 59.2 68% 59.2 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 62%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI-CF

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	704x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	471x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	211x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	268x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	126x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	115x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	57x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	47x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	42x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	72x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	52x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	46x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

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